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Capita Journal, Salem, Oregon, Saturday, July 16, 1949
Socialism in Britain
That Britain's financial crisis, as American loans are
exhausted, is becoming' more acute as revealed by the
desperate efforts of Sir Stafford Cripps, economic boss
of the socialist labor government to meet the emergency
by slashing dollar purchases 25 percent, that is cutting
American imports 25 percent and replacing them, if possi
ble in high-cost non-dollar areas. The new British trade
treaty with Russia, on a barter exchange basis, is along
this line. The result will be to increase prices to British
consumers and make the solution of the main problem,
reduction of British costs, harder, for Britain must buy
raw materials to make the goods she sells in dollar areas.
The American products affected by the new cuts in
Imports will be cotton, steel, non-ferrous metals, timber,
paper, pulp, tobacco and sugar, that have to be paid in
dollars. How British industry can keep up its recent
rate in production is hard to see.
Every British industry nationalized, means a loss of
taxation revenues to the government, which has to be
made up by higher taxation paid by the people, a point
always lost sight of by advocates of public ownership.
And another result is that operating costs have gone
up in every industry under the red-tape of government
management, customary government inefficiency replaced
efficiency and retarded production.
Strict rationing prevails in food-stuffs with an army of
regulators who ought to be in production, and the rations
are skimpy indeed and the cost terrific with a high pur
chase luxury tax on every item needed for existence. And
the resultant hopelessness and loss of incentive is destroy
ing British morale. The London Sunday Times comments
as follows on the rapidly deteriorating situation :'
"The walls of the prison close in day by day; the area of
enterprise shrinks. Day by day the ceiling of opportunity is
lowered. We prisoners are charged more for the expense of
the multiplying Jailers. Food and drink diminish in quantity
and quality month by month. There is no incentive to bold un
dertakings except a heartless propaganda which urges all dogs
collectively to jump the moon while keeping chained each dog
with a spring or heart in him. Socialism, as now interpreted
here in England, is competition without prizes, boredom with
out hope, war without victory, and statistics without end."
Oregon Is Closer to the Hot War
The United States senate has been put on the spot by
Oregon's Senator Morse. Morse has refused to step aside
to let the newcomer, John Foster Dulles, also a republican,
be placed on the coveted foreign relations committee.
Morse feels that his senate priority and representation
of the Pacific coast are more important than Dulles' ex
perience as a GOP foreign policy expert. Dulles, Governor
Dewey's appointee to fill the vacancy left by the of
Senator Wagner, will serve under the appointment until
December.
Morse's contentions have merit.
The deplorable state of United States relations in the
Orient are reason enough in themselves to warrant the
addition of a western man who realizes that there is more
to our foreign affairs than Europe.
The tiation's foreign policy has been so top-heavy so
long toward Europe that the crisis of Asia has been given
lack of proper attention. This inaction on our part has
now reached the' point of scandalous proportions.
As bad a mess as things are in China and the countries
below, the United States has not yet adopted an intelli
gent long-range policy toward the Asiatic mainland.
Europe deserves attention. It has gotten it under the
Marshall plan. It should get it under the Atlantic pact,
also. But similar attention must be given affairs in Asia.
The senators who are trying to push Morse away from
a seat on the senate foreign relations committee should
remember one important fact: The United States actu
ally was forced into World War II because of an attack
from the Orient ! Yet four years after the end of that war,
this nation has not yet worked out any kind of a policy
for the part of the world where a hot war is now raging.
Can't eastern and midwestern American realize there is
more to this world than Europe?
Truce in Labor Turmoil
Refusing, for political reasons, to take advantage of the
Taft-Hartley labor act provisions for intervention in the
threatened nation-wide steel strike, President Truman has
been successful in inducing both sides in the labor contro
versy to agree to a GO day truce while a fact-finding board
investigates and reports on a solution.
The unions immediately accepted the Truman proposal,
anything to discredit the Taft-Hartley law, and at the Inst
minute, the big three of steel, United States Steel, Beth
lehem and Republic reluctantly agreed to the truce while
the fact finders explore the dispute and make recommen
dations for settling it.
The president's advisers believe that the intervention
has forestalled for the rest of the summer a showdown on
labor's fourth round wage demands. By that time, they
hope, business conditions will be more favorable for a
peaceful settlement of demands of the steelworkers and
other big industrial unions. These include the auto, coal,
rubber, shipbuilding and electrical manufacturing indus
tries.
Their Duty Was Staggering Ordeal
Miami Beach, Fla. VP) Three Miami Beach policemen re
cently sat down at a table with a fifth of 100-proof bourbon -and
cot drunk with the blessing of their superiors and in the
Interest of science.
The trio were serving as guinea pigs for the city's new
"drunkometer," a devcie for measuring the extent of Intoxi
cation. All drank two, four and 10-ounce shots of bourbon
then breathed Into a sterile balloon. The alcohol content
was rated at .180 or better In each policeman .150 Is con
sidered drunk.
They agreed it was a staggering ordeal.
BY BECK
Actions for Regret
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KEYS TO THIS CAR. I FORGOTTEN TO LEAVE I
V LARRY? ITS LOCKED A EM HE DASHED OUT t
AND I CANT PUT OF HERE IN A HURRY
V IT ON THE GREASE f.WW AFTER TELLING ME ) g
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Congress Almost Passes
Bill Hitting Little Business
By DREW PEARSON
Washington A bill vitally affecting small-business men came
within a hair's breadth of being passed in congress the other day.
The law was so technical that it was difficult for senators and
representatives to catch its full significance let alone the
poor public.
Also, some congressmen were character in regard to the bas
thrown off guard by the fact that ing-point bill,
two trusted liberals fronted for
the bill. They
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
were: ben. Joe
O'Maho n e y of
Wyoming and
Rep. Emmanuel
Celler of New
York, demo
crats,
However, two
alert senators
and one sopho
more represent-.
ative Inter
vened. Their
Draw Pmmob
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
'Bully' Gets Chance to Express
Religious Feeling Finds Happiness
BY REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
Rector. 81 Paul's IvlAeop&l Cbureb
Strange as it may seem, some people suffer from the effects of
suppressed religious urges.
Many people persistently fight against any outward mani
festation of the spiritual impuls-
es which almost cry out for ex- struction class where he might
pression. One of the reasons for have a chance to ask questions
NEW CHAMPIONS
OF LITTLE BUSINESS
Realizing what the O'Mahoney
basing-point bill meant to little
business, Kefauver in the sen
ate and Carroll in the house
tacked on amendments aimed to
prevent further price-fixing.
But this got no support from
Rep. Celler. To the New York
Journal of Commerce he warned
that he hoped to change the
wording of the Carroll amend-
amendments should save small ment when the bill came before
business from legalized cutthroat mm in judiciary conference,
competition. by which big trusts Later, Manny denied this
could bleed them to death. statement; also got his dander
The three interveners were up when this columnist chal
Kefauver of Tennessee, Long of lenged his position.
Louisiana (Son of the famed "Never have I been opposed
Huey), with Rep. John Carroll of to the Carroll and Kefauver POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
.Denver ail aemocraia. amenaments, ne turned. "1
have been for them."
CHAIN OF EVENTS Later, the congressional rec-
Here are the facts in the com- ord was read to the congress
plicated legislative battle which man over the telephone to re
might have wrecked many small mind him of what he had said
business men. to his colleagues in the house of
For two decades and more, representatives.
THE 1769 ENCYCLOPEDIA
k. - I, BRITANNICA HAS 4
JM y- SENTENCES ON THE ATOM
(Hc TjL -VM THKURRENT'
TWICE
AS MANY MEN
AS WOMEN DIE
FROM PNEUMONIA.
(FOR 10U, MRS. V. BOWMAN, NIAGARA FAUS, N.Y.)
Send your "Odds" questions on any subject to "The Wizard
of Odds," care of the Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon.
J. Waddington Gotrocks
Tests Out His 'Friends'
By HAL BOYLE
Main VnwV itP Dnna ITTVtn lima thdlA WQ B HTAaltVlr man
certain well-organized groups, s" recora named J. Waddington Gotrocks.
such as the cement and steel in- Quotes you as saying: 'I am not Monev ran in his family but never ran out.
dustries, sold under the basing- sympathy with ... the Ke- wadding t o n
this is a subtle
form of fear
that any out
ward show of
religion might
b e interpreted
as a form of
weakness.
One of my
closest friends
many years ago
was a rugged
two-fisted stor- Her. arum swin
my Individual.
and maybe express himself.
"What are you driving at?"
he asked. "Do you think I am
going to take the veil?"
' Eventually, however, he did
come into the church. He be
came a vestryman, and one of
the hardest workers for the
church we ever had. He got all
over being a big bully. Friends
who had long ago left him, re
turned." He was not worried any more
about being a "sissy", but stood
point system.
renSV'CeU!f. "ved up to his
This meant that the price of V 1 e'n- V e: armpits in four
cement was the same in every "Tr" e" n " 1 leaf clovers. He
part of the U.S.A. A cement e fdmg thte Ke: kept a staff of
company in Allentown, Fa., for 1 m'lHThl and 30 girls who did
instance, could absorb the freight !ctth ". "nothing but
cost in shihDDina to New Or- exactlv the ,ame- clip his bond
leans, thus selling in Louisiana Those are statements you coupons. And
for the same price it sold in made during debate, Congress- every five
. . man " nnt i'a an ....... n.i..n.j
Pennsylvania
He liked to assume the role of wn.n th. -nnBreeation stood.
a "bully". He liked to bark at and kneIt when tne other wor.
people and make them afraid shippers kneit. He wasn't afraid
of him. He was just a "diamond to give expression and became
in the rough." He was a thor- a free man
oughly good man But he was h,s free(Jom came
none too happy because he had h incss.
scared away almost all of his e .
rHe 'was a deeply religious You cannot get all you should
man, but went out of his way out of life until you let your
to make sure that no one would Hght shine out- G've vou soul
find it out. He was afraid people some alr. even if some one
might think he had become a should perchance see it.
"sissy". This he could not bear Take you wife to church Sun-
day. It will not hurt her to
Knowing what was bothering know you have a soul, even
him, and wanting to make him, though, at first, she might be
not better, perhaps, but happier startled. But the experience will
I invited him to attend an in- be good for you.
Not the Way to Provide for Family
Uklah, Calif. (U.m Irwin E. Ulrlch, 45, was in custody today
for stealing 33 parking meters from the towns of Santa Rosa,
Healdsburg and Uklah.
Ulrlch explained that he wanted "to provide for his family."
SIPS FOR SUPPER
man,' Mr. Celler was asked, vears he had toui-
uo you stiu say you were for retire them and
the Carroll amendment?" hire a new
point system illegal. The cement r"8' ' i 5
,j fH .,).,., ih cooled preceptibly. He had no musclebound.
comment to make. He lived in i
Finally the supreme court in
tervened, decreed the basing'
and other industries could not
absorb freight rates in order to
fix a standard price in all parts
of the country, the supreme MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
cuui i x uieu.
At this point, two former
champions of little business ap
peared to reverse themselves.
so snooty that people baited
their mousetraps with Rem
brandt etchings rubbed with
100-year-old cheese.
Once somebody asked Wad
gington how much dough ' he
really had. He hired the Na
tional Cash Register company to
build him a special machine to
count it. The machine got up
to 10 digits something like
$1,000,000,000 and then It
blew a gasket.
"Well, anyway I'm not a pau-
neighborhood per," concluded Waddington.
Hal Bojls
CHAMPION NO. 1
One of the most respected
members of the U. S. senate is
sandy-haired, blue-eyed Joe
O Mahoney of Wyoming. Begin
'Cold' Religious War
Finds No Compromise
By JAMES D.WHITE
8ubitlluttnt for DeWltt MacKenzle, AP Foreign New An&Iyjt)
Put yourself in the shoes of a Polish peasant.
He is a Catholic and a devout one in a land where a relatively
ning as secretary to the late Sen- "maU body o communists control virtually every phase of his
ator Kendrick of Wyoming, Joe
Waddington had an odd trail
for a rich man. He liked t '
spend money with both hands.
But the faster he spent it the
more it piled up.
He was a real philanthropist.
People got so they were shoot
ing their parents so they could
come to him and say they were
orphans and enjoy his bounty.
When the zoo asked him to fi
nance a project to cross-breed
an ostrich and a giraffe they
merely wanted to see If the off-
Watch Your Step
By DON UPJOHN
Today quite a heavy burden is being added to the already
sagging shoulders of the customers. There's a matter of 593 chap
ters In the new Oregon session laws of the 1949 legislature, rep-
re s e n ting ap-
got to know government back- . ne 10 " -upreme ln au spiritual a,i 4 A
f.,.j j .11,, (!,. have contact with the commun- matters. A communist govern- imported 30 acres of Africa
fnr th lime foii'nu, L( 1st propaganda, if only through ment claims supremacy in tem- Bive them plenty of elbow room.
JjhJ it . tr. ,i S reading official orders of the poral affairs, and wants author- Naturally a man like Wad-
wnnriL rA l r L fh. government. ity over church affairs, too. "ngton was surrounded by
mrsheepmenTht;state Assume he hM learned ol the What the peasant must do is iend n0e00tlrae he JY".1 -
Dig sneepmen 01 nis state. Vatican excommunication de- ,0rt the wheat from the chaff throu8h hi" 9-room castle and
Back in the New Deal days, cree, through his diocesan au- wUh the assistance of his SDir- counted 1'BBa friends who were
O'Mahoney was the trust-busting thorities, forbidding him to ex- itual advisor He must now learn stavln8 with hlm- And they U
chairman of the temporary Na- p0Se himself to communist doc- what he has' to reject and what had ordered breakfast In bed
tional Economic Committee trine. he may accept quail on toast, washed down
which had this to say: Is he faced with the necessity T H r(hii. ,u. with French champagne.
"Extensive hearing, on bas- of disobeying the government , maC X " iSe , "WhBta,LUCS f i 'm "
ing-point systems showed that and depriving himself of a liv- SSLxZ be so well liked," he said,
they are used in many industries ng" countries it can h Hfo or r, .
as an effective device for elimi- From a literal reading of the dath oeriod v But thln V0, gUrlL "ngry
nating price competition .... decree excommunicating com- Th v"n 1,.. ,. 1, . , 6 had .Sie'Lhel;..n
we therefore recommend that munists and forbidding Catholic .. The Vatican has unsheathed emerald four carats lighter than
the congress enact legislation de- contact with them, this might ""P"m" uf?"1 ?d ihe.? d,1Jm2?d'1"1,d:u V
daring such price systems to be "PPear to be the case. However, hmf r it "?j. Waddington, but do
illegal " the effect probably would be to , heyhfe attaclMd the church they like you for yourself? May-
... make his contact with his narish i? 811 the countries of eastern be it's your money they're
proximately 593
new laws going
Into effect, the
exceptions being
what few may
be referred to
the people or
those which
have gone or
will go into ef
fect at some
specified time
in the laws
in the face. Old Judge .Joe has
a good face to look into any
where but from the sacredness
of his bench but from there we
would just as soon he'd be look
ing the other way.
Thot .,,0. i ioai c..,. . make his contact with his parish
z. Driest closer than pvpr
later tne u. o. supreme ourt . . . . ... . Korea. Well, as I sav. Waddlnirton
or. would ha vp the nnthnrifv in The communists have had a was a simple rich man. This
judge what this peasant could lQt of experience at this. The thought had never occurred to
caught up with Joe O'Mahoney
and followed his advice. Where
Europe, and even in northern after."
"".il0" and could not do if he wanted Ruian orthodox church 'exists Wn
and introduced a bill which part
Just for a joke he had four
Dob Uplobo
Speaking of the courthouse at
a meeting of the courthouse
commission the other day the
question came up as to what the
probable cost would be if the
building were made earthquake
themselves. When one considers Proof. Architect Pietro Bellu-
that some of these laws will seni opmea mat a az.uuu.uuu
be tossed around for the next building not earthquake proof
eight or 10 years by the courts would require about two mll-
and lawyers, all equipped with l'ons more to make it so. This
legal minds supposedly trained being the case it's likely they'll
to know just what laws mean, let the new one rattle down as
and that when thev are through the earthquakes come along,
with some of them the meaning ,
won't be much clearer than The community carnival out
when they started, it's going to ?' Four Corners is still wowing
be quite a task for the humble "" "" ....v.utJ..
. ... rnn 1 att nnH Inmnrrnur Inn
1 11 j iL ei a. viu fciic lun, 1.14 unite Jljlll" if t r- - uui"
ly nullified the Supreme Court. seif off from the sacraments 0, ets found they could not wipe butle blow a silver bugle call
Senator O'Mahoney explained the church. ut religion without wiping out and rounded up all his pals for
mat nis Dill was only clarifying The crux of the matter is the tne people who follow it mncn in tne main ainmg room,
the law. Admittedly the law conscience of the peasant, as his Widespread rebellion may al- 14 was 10 bi8 tnat the waitresses
needed clarifying. For, under priest most likely would instruct ready have begun ia Czechoslo- had to use 'oiler skates,
the new Supreme Court ruling, him. Reading government noti- vakia, for instance, as Catholic When they were all gathered
a cement company in Birming- ces which vitally affect his ev- Peasants support their priests armJnd Waddington said: 'J
ham, Ala., could not absorb eryday life would not constitute who are victims of communist 'What do you know, fellows?
freight rates to compete in such wilful disobedience. Exposing campaigns against them. Mv- laf check just bounced!"
a near-by market as New Or- himself knowingly to commun- In any case, the Vatican's or- o,Pan, ike 0ut- In xacttJ
ans. 1st propaganda would. der seems to mean that as far " u ..Vl fif" ?"t
nut .nck-fl wv in rVMahnn. He is inevitably caueht be- as it Is ponrornpH tw 1. 1,. P?cked his bag and left. Most
kiii , ti.; tween two svstems nf ,inrm. n om,i.- .i of them went to the Grand Cen-
out hsigieanr 'words! authority. The church holds ii: phase he cola 'war. """
That it shmiiri hp IpooI "in h. al an lnnocent lexas oil mil-J
layman to absorb the whole 593
all at once and take heed there- much as it is for the betterment
to. Yet, it's a well known axiom of thf ,od fut therec K
the layman is presumed to know wouldn't be a bad turn for Sa
the law, just like the courts and lemi'e o o out and have some
lawyers, and he'd better or else. 'n fo' themselves and help the
But we ImaRine we ve violated . i
f.-i?L15f1;' MOTHER WAITS UNCERTAINLY
good faith."
NOTE Joe's senate col
leagues say he has been under
terrific pressure from the sugar
beet interests back home to le
galize the basing-point system,
Will Polio Strike Family
For 4th Time in Week?
lionaire was arriving in town.
Only two of his chums even
bothered to tell Waddington
goodbye. They couldn't help it.
They bumped into him on the
way out.
nerines with their project.
25 or 30 of them already this
Anrlv In th Hnv nnri mnvhft
will bust a dozen or so more Por''' 9,ln5, Up ,,
h.fn nicht onrf itv nrnviripnp. Philadelphia WP) When Rob
have mercy on our soul and ert H- Garrett's little pigs go
yours too.
Included In the new laws go
to market, Garrett hopes they'll
bring their weight in gold. That
would make uo a little, he rea-
There're Tricks in All Trades
Sydney, Australia W) A snake-charmer here has found
way of ensuring that pickpockets won't lift his money.
After his performance's end he puts his money In the
hatf'baf with the wriggling snakes.
lng into effect is one giving soned today, for the $400 they
the county court authority to en- cost him to exdore greener pas
force parking regulations about tures on the other side of the
the courthouse grounds and to fence. The state superior court
do so with fines, or even jail set that price for the corn and
sentences if necessary, so it be- turnips Garretts' 26 pigs con
hooves one to watch out for yel- sumed in the Lancaster county
low lines, et cetera, or he may farm of Mr. and Mrs. James
have to look good old Judge Joe Consylman.
See What Daddy Brought?
Memphis, Tenn. (U.R) James B. Ross found a pigeon's nest
with two birds in it and decided to show It to hit two young
sons.
On the way home, he stopped at the grocer's with the box
containing the nestlings.
When he arrived, he called:
"Come here and see what daddy has brought you."
He opened the box and Inside were several cans of beer.
He Inadvertently had iwapped boxes at the grocery store.
potent house judiciary commit
tee, which processed the new
O'Mahoney basing-point bill on
the house side of congress.
Celler Is also a member of the
r riaay an amDuiance came to funeral and
the home of Calvin's parents family.
two diocks away to taice nis
12-year-old sister. Carolyn, to
the hospital a victim of polio.
Waddinston walked thrnnsh
Lansing, Mich., July 16 (U.R) Mrs. Marearet Tavlor 21 i.roHlp1 his castle, rnnm nftpr emntv
with the Wyco Trona Develop- her two-week-old daughter in her arms and waited uncertainly room. It was completely desert
ment Co., of Green River, Wyo., today to see if polio would strike her family a fourth time in a ed- He Picked up a telephone
especially on his neck. week. and called the zoo.
Thursday her husband, Calvin, 22-year-old machine operator "I,m donating you another
OLD CHAMPION NO 2 died ' Infantile paralysis. Last ' $10,000,000," he said. "In re-
Another former champion of fUndu.y thc'r 16-month-old ,ion. sat quietly with her for a turn will you do me a smaU
n.n u , IOTm" cnampion oi daughter, Susan, was rushed to while todav favor?"
ittle buisness has been Rep. to tne ho,pital with the cri " jZL h w, A "Why certainly-what is it,
"Manny" Celler, vigorous New pIlng dlsease. ..J ? n ?, " Mr- Gotrocks?" replied the zoo
York democrat, now head of the . . . , . tne arrangements for Calvin's dirertnr
" lunerai and the nt u-
r ix me up a small room near
the ffnrilln rnffe" satri Watrilnrf-
"It just doesn't seem real ton. "I feel a little lonely."
now," the young mother said. MOP AT.- Plh ni never
i oi puuo. ., T . .. ,, --- ,v7. : r " .
n . . . . , i c va., uu io ifc care or mtisriprt witn neintf unmiren tor
. . .. uuciurs nave loia ner ausan j0,,k ,
Manhattan law firm of Weisman, and Carolyn are responding to y aau8mers. their penmanship.
v-tmer, w iian ana open, treatment. The babv's right arm
This firm handles accident cases and leit ieg have been affected
for. the giant A & P chain gro- bjr the disease,
eery stores. The doctors also told ner he
A & P is one of the chains hit di5ease isn't contagious and that
by the Supreme Court decision, uttle Patricia could not be in
In fact, A & P was specifically any danger,
mentioned in the Morton Salt t don't know where I get this
case, where it was shown that calmness," Mrs. Taylor said,
A & P was actually able to sell gently rocking her smaller
salt retail for less than the daughter. "The only thing I
neighborhood grocers could buy know is I don't want to put
it wholesale. Thus the independ- Patricia down."
ent grocer didn't have a chance
of competing. Calvin's father, C. L. Taylor,
Whatever Manny Celler's mo- chief of the state department of
tivei, he acted strangely out of public instruction finance divi-
Ditch-Digging Can Be Fun
Cincinnati VP Who says ditch-digging can't be fun? Men
working on a downtown building excavation here think it is.
While digging, they broke into a long-forgotten wine cellar
and discovered hundreds of bottles of that delicious fermented
drink. Some of the wine was more than 100 years old.
"The best wine we've ever tasted," they heartily agreed.
The bottles bore faded labels saying the contents were "in
valuable for general debility, loss of appetite, prostration and
nursing mothers."
The spirits, then about 75 years old, should be consumed -"4
"three times a day," said the labels.
Old time Cincinnati residents said the cellars were part
of the old Longworth wine bouse which went out of business
more than 60 years ago.