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4 Salem, Oregon, Saturday, July 2, 1949
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A Solomon Comes to Judgment?
The democratic party of Oregon, which seems now to
consist of Monroe Sweetland and Nancy Honeyman Rob
inson, democratic national committeeman and committee-
4-:nl.. Viao flna J finlnmnn for the
proposed third Oregon federal judgeship which congress THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
is considering. And this endorsement is consiaerea, at
least by the endorsees, as equivalent to the appointment
if the increase is ordered by congressional action.
The new democratic leader, Boss Sweetland, says that
Solomon nosed out four other candidates. The endorse
ment was contained in joint letters from Sweetland and
Robinson to President Truman and Senator J. Howard Mc
Grath, chairman of the democratic national committee.
. 1 1.11. 1 T! 1 I
He also was indorsed in separate leuers Dy iNicnoias the responsibil-
Granet, Multnomah county democratic central committee ity of business,
, . one has the op-j
chairman. rtnit v J
Other candidates for the judgeship vetoed by the Big jax tne body and.
Two, were Circuit Judge Earl C. Latourette, Oregon City; mind and let the
Henry L. Hess, La Grande, U.S. attorney for Oregon;
, . i t 1 n 11 n T..t. .4. n..nMH.A nnn nA one returns
Umei justice nan o. uusk. ui me siaic ouyicnic wmi, a,, rom a vacation
W. L. Josslyn, Portland attorney and chairman of the tired ln body
democratic state central committee. and stm confus-
ed in mind and . , Swl
And whom it .may 1 asked is Mr Solomon that ZenLyyed on the Job.
He snouio De tnus singiea ouiior uie m"'K' juuicm. The great Prophet Elijah once foundation upon which to stand
honor, acrainst all other democrats in the judiciary or prac- oninvoH a vapntinn hv a -flow- In timps rtf nHvurcitv trnn
ticing law? Most life long Oregon democrats never heard jg brook. This retreat by the may be almost too great to bear.
of him either at bar or bench. His name does not appear mountain brook gave Elijah not ...
in either the national nor the Oregon "Who's Who?" only renewed physical health, when our blessings which
Sweetland says that Solomon is a 41-year-old attorney " clarified his thinking, and we have come to beiieVe are
and active democrat and states in The Oregonian the rea- enabLT" SSd-. Xeo"Z
son for h.s endorsement: plan caref'ully his future course, ZmJ out in an-
"Mrs. Robinson and I Indorsed Mr. Solomon because more Even this prophet of God, Eli- guish of soul, "Why has God
than any other attorney of standing, he represents the prlnci- jah, had to face reality just as done this to me!" It requires a
pies and spirit of the Roosevelt and Truman administrations, we do. When our money runs strong faith and stalwart spirit
As a federal judge we have confidence that he would give effect outi our vacation must end. Eli- to say sincerely through tears,
to those principles. jah's vacation ended .when the "The Lord gave and the Lord
"We have the greatest respect for U.S. Attorney Hess and brook on which he depended for hath taken away, blessed be the
Judge Latourette. After consulting with democrats through- one of his greatest physical name of the Lord."
nut the state. It was concluded that Inasmuch as both federal needs dried nr. Hp had in mrmp un t i ...L . j.
Judges (James Alger Fee and Claude McColloch) are from the on to where there was water t d , d ahould remember
eastern Oregon district, prior consideration should go to some- drink. a"a we snoula "e"
mav need strenffthenlnff and re-
Our religious enthusiasm freshing. We must not forget
should not blind us to the fact God when we are vacationing.
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
We Must Nor Forget God
When We Go Vacationing
BY REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
Rector. St Paul's Episcopal Church
I believe in vacations for everyone. One's best work cannot be
done without a period away from the usual places, and from
the familiar faces about the office or about one's work.
Awav from
that we ao live in a material
world, and we must have sus
tenance. No matter how secure
we may feel, or how sure our
future may seem to be, the brook
upon which we depend may dry
up, and unless we are prepared
spiritually for the jolt, it can be
a very better experience.
Our brook of material pros
perity may dry up, or the brook
of health may fail, or a member
of the family may be taken a-
way! Without a strong spiritual
321
773 YEARS AGO MONDAY
Declaration of Independence
Proclaimed July 4, 1776
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessarv
for one people to dissolve the political bands which have
connected them with another, and to assume, among the
powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which
the laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a
decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they
should declare the causes which impel them to the separation,
separation. -
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are
created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator
with certain unalienable rights; that among these are
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure
these rights, governments are instituted among men, de
riving their just powers from the consent of the governed ;
that, whenever any form" of government becomes destructive
of these ends,' it is the right of the people to alter or to
abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its
foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers
in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect
their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate
that governments long established should not be changed
for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experi
ence hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer,
while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by
abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But
when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing in
variably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them
under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, ,,,... n nz-witm
to throw off such government, and to provide new guards WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
for their future security. Such has been the patient suffer
ance of these colonics, and such is now the necessity which
constrains them to alter their former systems of govern
ment. The history of the present king of Great Britain
is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having
in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny
over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to
a candid world.
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Send your "Odds" questions on any subject to "The Wizard
of Odds," care of the Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon.
Johnson Quietly Trims
70-Group Air Force
By DREW PEARSON
Washington A few months ago any move to scale down the
70-erouD air force would have brought howls of anguish from
He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesotne and congress and certain air force advocates,
necessary for the public good. But it is indicative of the improved harmony slowly settling
He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and down over the three warring armed services, that Secretary of
nroccin tf lmniMfanna unloee alter tpnHnH in thofr nnaroflnn 4111 riofanca .TnVinsnn has auietlv de- '
his assent should be obtained; and, when so suspended, he has creed a 48-group air force and connection with airplane pro-
lrl
curement scandals, the FBI re
ceived an anonymous letter stat
ing that Meyers was engaged in
irregularities. Hoover sent the
letter to Gen. Hap Arnold, then
chief of the air corps, who, in
stead of checking the letter, dis
carded it because it was unsign
ed. Later Arnold was severely
criticized for having allowed
Benny Meyers to operate right
under his nose.
Drew Pearson
Hess Is from the eastern Oregon
one from western Oregon.
district."
"The unwritten nolicv which prefers the appointment
of men under 60 years of age to district court positions,"
is Sweetland's alibi for purging the other candidates from
consideration. He further states the highlight of Solo
mon's qualification was that he served as treasurer of
the Draft Roosevelt Committee of Oregon in 1940 and
was an alternate delegate to the Democratic national con
vention in 1944. And the most important, becoming treas
urer of the Oregon Re-elect Truman Committee prior to
the 1948 convention. Sweetland failed to add that Solomon
is an attorney for the PUD's both in Washington and Ore
gon and was a leader in the defunct Oregon Commonwealth
Federation.
Since when were such partisan political activities the
highest qualifications for appointment to the federal
bench? And why should the fact that Solomon "repre
sents the principles and spirit" of the New and Fair Deals
be a main consideration for a judge supposed to represent
all the people and administer equality before the law with
justice to all?
The brave new democratic leadership in Oregon is cer
tainly leading the party to the Sweetland of decadence,
if not to the promised land.
utterly neglected to attend to them. it did not cause a ripple.
He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of Johnson first
large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish broke the news
the right of representation in the legislature a right inestimable to n e 1 0 1 '
to them, and formidable to tyrants only. chis ol fstt'
He has called together legislative, bodies at places unusual, recordsession 6"
uncomfortable and distant from the depository of their public Briefly and
records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance succmctiy he ex
with his measures. , . plained that the
He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly for opposing. original ?0-
with manly firmness, his invasions on the rights of the people, group force had
He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause been based on
others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable using the B-50
of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their and the B-29.
exercise; the state remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all which were cheaper planes and Meyers' irregularities during the
me aangers or invasion irom wunout, ana convulsions witnin. which the joint chiefs of staft war,, and published on Dec. 1,
He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; now had declared outmoded, in 1942, a charge that Meyers was
for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization of for- favor of the B-36. But the B-36, practicing deliberate deception
eigners, refusing to-pass others to encourage their migration Johnson - continued, is a much regarding airplane production
hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands, more expensive plane, and to figures. The charge, if untrue,
He has obstructed the administration of justice, by refusing his build 70 air groups around it would have been libelous. How
assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. would send the military budget ever, it was made only .after
He has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure from $14,780,000,000 up to $17,- careful checking,
of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. 000,000,000. The anonymous letter recelv-
He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither Furthermore, Johnson sail'ed by tne FBj could not be
swarms of officers to. harass our people, and eat out their sub- that building too many B-36's checked by the FBI without per-
stance. now would probably mean they mission from the army, since
He has kept among us, in times of peace, standing armies, wuld be J"""0'""?,'6 -tw PI its own inspector general has
Incidentally, this column also
received rumors of General
without the consent of our legislatures.
three years hence Therefore, he jurisdiction over military per-
Things Happen to Louis Sasek
Seattle, July 2 (P) Things seem to have a habit of happening
to Louis Sasek.
The 27-year-old ex-Bataan death marcher, who spent six
years In a Japanese prison camp, recently took a job with
a sewer construction outfit.
Mrs. Jill Ericksnn, a nurse and a neighbor, recounted:
"One day a ladder broke under him. Then they hit a gas
main and he was one of the men gassed. And he's only been
on the Job a week or two."
Thursday he and his misfortunes were topped, literally,
when he was buried alive under an avalanche of dirt on a
sewer construction job.
Fast rescue work by fellow workmen and firemen saved
him.
SIPS FOR SUPPER
He has effected to render the military independent of and ?IpLTi son"ei ThaA wa.s hy H,00Yel
superior to the civil power. ,
He has combined with others to "subject us to a jurisdiction Finally, he pointed out that.
foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; y War should come, production . "T ir , "apr "x suluu"
iir,o hi. ,!.. t ini.i,n. , jj . ' i ,oi. for FBI files is to have two sets
Ing program over a longer per- sent the letter to General Arl
iod. - nold.
Note 1 Perhaps the solution
giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us;
could be speeded up in a rela
tively short time.
(1) Strictly confidential and
containing unchecked data nevr
Surprise
A Bureau Holds the Decision
If Salam intends to keep a United Air Lines connection
here, the city will have to fight to do it.
The question of whether West Coast Airlines, a feeder
service, replaces United at McNary field may develop into have been that
a question of how much Salem wants the Mainliner serv- way in tne ecu-
Ice. The Civil Aeronautics board will have the iinal say.
United's assistant to the president of the company
indicates that the transcontinental line will cooperate in
supplying facts and figures which the board will need to
arrive at a decision. This guarded statement fails to in
dicate one way or another how hard united Air Lines will mcll appointed
work to hold its service here. It is disappointing that circuit judge 25
United didn't come out with a response that indicated a added to Salem
determination to maintain a link in Salem with the trans
continental Mainliner service.
That leaves the fighting to be done by the city itself.
By DON UPJOHN
Appointment of Rex Kimmell as circuit judge came as quite
a surprise to a lot of folk around here. Perhaps It was appropriate
to the holiday season as it exploded like a firecracker in the
of
ears of many.
In fact, it must r-wr.
torial rooms of
the local morn
i n g paper
which ran a
headline say
ing "Rex Kim-
fire force." But
we doubt if it is that explosive.
Rex will bring a wealth of ex-
of the "new arrival," he was
asked how much the baby
weighed. "Eighteen pounds!"
was the proud reply. When ask
ed again, "Eighteen pounds,"
are you sure?" Smith replied,
"Well, I may be a few pounds
off." And this isn't Grandpa
Smith's first experience. For
the record, the boy, Stephen
Richard, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Dean Smith, was born Tuesday
and weighed "eight" pounds.
This story we heard about a
pericnee from legal interpreta- local man must obviously be told
, , . ., , ..... tions in the attorney general's without names. He was riding
It should be repeated that there is no apparent objection office which should hold him with his wife the other night
to West Coast Airlines establishing an operations base in good stead ln the numerous and she was driving. He dipped
here. There is II definite objection, however, to having cases filed in circuit court here his hand Into his, coat pocket to
the United connection cut. involving state constitutional get a cigarette and felt a pair
The state capital and second city of Oregon would be v't"Lifl8'slBti lndy'i gl,hves ,Al,cke,Vway.
given a setback if it were deprived J a main line air serv- hl, T Zere? iLT
ice. Substitution of a feeder service only would be a slap which handles all such cases might have been who'd deposit
in the face to the city s development and position. Salem and the governor may have had ed the gloves ln his coat pocket,
deserves top service with a link to the nation-wide system such thought in mind, no doubt. But he was taking no chances,
which United Air Lines has. when he selected his appointee. So surreptitiously he removed
It is up to the city to impress United Air Lines manage- A mber of high-class and the gloves, nonchalantly laid his
ment with the expanding local aid service at McNary field y,ery ablc atto,rne's wcFe, n" na.n over hf me ,of thecar
..j ), ff,,,. Col tu i,ij u.v, i,iu uoned as possible candidates for window and let the gloves drop
and the futuie for Salen . This should become a high the appointment. But one to the pavement. When they
priority job for the Chamber of Commerce. could Thcre is n0 reached their destination and
I hen the Civil Aeronautics Board should be supplied need to worry but what the new alighted his wife turned to him
With all necessary data. Salem's case is a good one well judge will give an able account and said; "Can you give me my
worth fighting for. of himself. gloves now?" She'd tucked them
hi Th h ' ili ! m there unbeknown to him
It is an interesting sidelight that the case should come idee-Becoming a when she took over the whee1'
Up at this time. grandfather must be quite a Just how far he's getting with
The life and death power of a federal governmental strain. When Tom Smith, local his explanations we haven't
body, such as the CAB, is all too clear in this matter. If grocer, joyously told the news heard.
one projects the thought a little further, the similar
' vnr nmiifn v.m v.,, , i,.io tnr Johnson s presentation was ... ... A t
any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of J' thf plnt anQ Posluve; 0f evaluated files, containing
these states; He left no doubt in the minds of carefully checked data, known
For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world: ,. "SwS "J? C0Uld be pr"
For imposing taxes on us without our consent; mind aucea ln court.
For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended Noi- Later that dav Johnson Note 2 n another PoInti
offenses; rns.d. th. ,Hme Dre!entatinn to Hoover sys: "Some of my
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits of trial by jury; a secret session of the senate friends in congress think they
For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighbor- armed services committee. They tilLnlluS
ing province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and als0 accepted the plan without constituted as a
enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example arBument Some experts inci- seParate agency. I do not agree,
and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into dentaUy figure the proposed 48 J?l JLT, jf6 f SJT
these colonies; ctouds at 54 erouns gency for the justice department,
For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable ..." which is the prosecuting agency,
laws, and altering, fundamentally, the forms of our government; NEXT GENERATION e tW0 must worlc together,
For suspending our own legislatures, and declaring themselves T do not know whether Alger thus con,not, divorced,
invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. Hiss Was ever guilty of being a rpTTIWr ,,,
He has abdicated government here by declaring us out of communist, but I do know that Secretly of Defense Johnson
his protection, and waging war against u. a lot of youngsters turned out A secretary ot flense Johnson
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns, by the schools and colleges in ??esn m? e ? hablt of 8ivln8
and destroyed the lives of our people. Z SSton years of "round LT lS Zv !
He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mer- his time were discouraged and
kLuauka vj uuipmic mic wuim m ucniu, ucauiaiiuu, uuu lymilliy, uwiuuoiuucu. tG Seattle Times
already begun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely Depression breeds discourage- Because Alice did a take-off
paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the ment. And the more the young- Qn the new deense chief at a
head of a civilized nation. the easier prey they became for women.s press t ne joklng.
He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the e rabble-rousers and the soap- ly gaye her hu private number
high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the boJfrs; , .... . . . at the Pentagon building.
executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves x That ls wn7 " "s s lm,pf ta"' A few weeks later, Alice need
by their hauds. to give openings to the 1,60 000 ed to conirm a story in a hurry
He has excited domestic insurrections among us, and has en- LTifYL iit- i T and dialed the secre number,
deavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merci- m ' JrTir The secretary of defense an-
less Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an un- , LJL" couee swered personally,
distinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, and conditions. That is also why th" step tak- "How 'he heU did you get
In every stage of these oppressions, we have petitioned en by William Fulton Kurtz, ""f Johnsoremind secre-
for redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated peti- head ' -the Pennsylvania Com-, t a Johnson that he himseU hgd
tions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, pany f Phadeipha. is so im- given it t0 her
whose character is thus marked by every act which may lLt, Vew He laughed, apologized, and
define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. "that they givl told her t0 c.a11 ,him any time-
Nor have UP hppn Wflntinor in nftonfinn f n onv Pi,'at, tu
The British are hopping mad
power and influence on local affairs of a Columbia Valley
Administration is plainly seen.
The present airline question is a reminder of how a fed
eral bureau reaches into a community and makes a deci
sion that might hinder development of that community.
All the city can do is to fight for its case and leave the
decision to the bureau.
There's a Reason for Everything
Port Orchard, Wash. ftl.R) A Westpark housewife posted
25 bond In Justice court here on charges of swimming in
the nude with three navy enlisted men.
She explained to an arresting deputyt
"In water was warm."
brethrem. We have warned them, from time to time, of "These youne DeoDle." he said.
DttaiYinhd hl7 fVloil lamolofuwA 4-n n..4-l H .. Ul - ira iVta 4ittnAoinn .fnnn. X ne SI
jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the cir- which this country must build, atomic f
cumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have J sincerely urge that you make refusing to inform them of the
appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we e, emP loynLr ' ,many as latest A-bomb information, since
have conjured them, by the ties of our common kindred, tZ will be eood fnr vnf they nelPed develop But Lil
to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably in- me g00d for them and good for ienthan is keeping the most sen
terrupt our connections and correspondence. They, too, have the' nation " sational inventions close to his
been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We ' . . . ehest for fear of leaks to the
must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounces HOOVER'S FBI Russians,
our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of ' Those who criticize J. Edgar tnFt Yl Airways p lani
mankind, enemies in war; in peace, friend. Hoover for having a certain a- ltfeJ u"d cst '
We. therefore, the 'representatives of the United States JTSodemS" S55l? h" 750 to this fall foUowin
of America, in general congress assembled, appealing to the tntertpri in thi. livL? its merger with American over
Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our in- published fact mtnert0 un- seas airlines, bringing the cost
tentions, do, in the name and by authority of the good Two vears befnrp ih o ver-the-ocean plane travel
nennlp nf thpsp pnlnnipo anlpmnlv nnKlieh nnJ A.lnMn t4 n t . to
1 - . . . , ww.......j (juuiiii qiiu umaic l i i f i l v. . ucii. -ucuuy ivieyer!
these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free
ana independent states; tnat they are absolved from all
allegiance to the British crown, and that all political
connection between them and the state of Great Britain is,
and ought to be, totally dissolved; and that, as free and
independent states, they have full power to levy war, con
clude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and
to do all other acts and things which independent states
may of right do. And for the support of this declaration,
with firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence,
we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes,
and our sacred honor.
an all-time low.
(CopyrUbt 1949)
Police Picked the Wrong Guy
Kansas City WP) Police have lost one of their favorite
srpeed-trap hideouts here parkway shrubbery in a 20-mile-an-hour
tone.
They jumped out from behind it and stopped John War
rington, park maintenance superintendent.
Warrington told them if they didn't stop hiding behind It
he was going to have the shrubbery cutdown.
Yesterday it was uprooted. Park Superintendent J. V.
Lewis gave this explanation: J,
A traffic hazard.