Capital jk Journal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher ROBERT LETTS JONES, Assistant Publisher Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che meketa St., Salem Phones: Business, Newsroom, Want Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409. Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press and The United Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use tor publication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this paper ond also news published therein. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Carrier: Weekly, 2!ic; Monthly, SI. 00; One Teai. S12.00. By Mail In Oregon: Monthly, 75c; 6 Mos.. $4.00; One Year, $8.00. V. 8. Outside Oregon: Monthly, $1 00: 6 Mos., $6.00; Vear, $12. 4 Salem, Oregon, Monday, August 1, 1949 Morse Scores With Point on Atlantic Pact Senator Morse of Oregon has been criticized from time to time for his heckling tactics among republicans in the United States Senate. His legal training has equipped him with a readiness to throw legal barbs into, or to ask search ing questions of, his colleagues' proposals. A recent action of his followed his skillful route of cut ting in with a basic question. His point deserves recogni tion. This action was highly constructive, and a service to the country. Morse, himself, considered it his most sig nificant contribution since he has been in the senate, with the possible exception of a resolution on the world court. While the senate was deep in discussion of what the At lantic pact would mean to the United States, Morse inter rupted the thinking of some of his colleagues. He intro duced the question of moral obligation that went with a signing of the pact. Dulles and some others had contended that legal obligations of the treaty were the only obliga tions binding on the nation. Morse contended that the treaty is no stronger than its moral obligation, which, in the case of the pact, amounted to the providing of mili tary aid as one of the means of implementing the treaty. By his action, he cautioned his fellow senators on any attempt to sell the country on the idea that furnishing military aid is separate and distinct from any obligation under the treaty. As a result, when the senate voted on the Atlantic pact, he had given them due notice of the implications of the treaty. Morse's approach to the question of backing up the treaty with arms aid is an expression of awareness of what United States responsibility amounts to in the world today. Senator Vandenberg joined Morse in putting it this way: "There is no obligation except the very Important obligation of honesty and honorably living up to the responsibility which we accept as a co-partner in the mutual defense of the north Atlantic area." Morse described any attempt to sidestep the moral re sponsibility that went along with the legal one as a "play upon words." Oregon's junior senator explained: "I say we pledge ourselves to cooperate in good faith, in the negotiations relative to the area defense council, in building up such military defenses as the council concludes are necessary to be provided in order to carry out the very purpose of the treaty by supplying such defenses and security as can be pro vided, through military channels." Union Curbs Urged in Anti-Trust Laws Thurman Arnold, who was head of the anti-trust divi , sion of the department of justice from 1938 to 1943, and largely responsible for the present attitude of the govern ment towards monopoly and the anti-trust litigation, tes tified last week before the senate banking and currency committee that "it is a very dangerous thing to permit labor unions to monopolize the labor supply without any . curbs whatsoever." .He urged congress to take steps . to bring unions under the anti-trust statutes and let the court decide the issues in each case. Mr. Arnold said he would define these objectives in the Clayton Act and that restriction of production, which was not a legitimate objective in his opinion, should be prohibited under the Sherman Act. He added that if the United Mine Workers could limit production in the soft coal industry, other unions could restrict construction or output of other products. "The situation," he said, "was a dangerous one." The committee is inquiring into the economic power of unions, particularly in the coal industry, which is limited to operations on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday east of the Mississippi river because the United Mine Workers has ordered its members to work a three-day week. The danger lay in the inclination of the employer to acquiesce in a union pian to limit production for the purpose of rais ing prices and thereby raising wages. He continued : "The bill should name some illegitimate practices a strike to exclude outside goods, a strike to exclude efficient methods, a refusal to allow independent firms to remain in business," he continued. He said he thought the law should admit that a legitimate purpose of labor unions was to monopolize the labor supply but that the unions should be enjoined from seek ing ends that were not legitimate." The situation in the coal industry, where Lewis has put his men on a three-day week pending agreement with man agement on a new union contract, illustrates how such a conspiracy to control production and prices, can be put into effect under our anti-trust laws and decisions of the ' upreme court exempting unions from the anti-trust laws. Abolishing the Poll-Tax The house of representatives for the fifth time in recent years has passed by a vote of 273 to 116 a bill outlawing the poll-tax as a requirement for voting in primary or na tional elections for federal officials. The other four times in 1942, 1943, 1945 and 1947 the legislation was killed in the senate without a vote, by filibuster or threat of one. A similar snag may strike the present bill by a senate minor ity of die-hard Dixiecrats and thus again deny to some United States citizens, white as well as colored, the ele mental right to vote without paying a tax to do so. Poll-tax repeal was one of the late President Roosevelt's musts in his New Deal platform as well as in Mr. Truman's Fair Deal. It is the least controversial of the several major features in his civil rights program sent to congress a year and a half ago. Southern democrats, led by the representatives of the seven poll-tax states Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia were the principal opponents of the bill. But on the final vote even the representation from the poll-tax states was not solid in opposition. Ninety-two democrats, all but seven of them from the south, and 24 republicans were recorded in the negative. One hundred fifty-one democrats, 121 republicans and one American la borite voted for the bill. The southerners fought the bill chiefly on the grounds of constitutionality, holding that it was a matter for the Btates or for an amendment to the constitution. The poll-tax is undemocratic in principle and practice, a discriminatory weapon against both the Negro and the poor white of the seven states, an aid to the political ma chines in the purchase of votes, and as remarked in the debate, is used "to enfranchise the dishonest poor and to disenfranchise the honest poor." The house has now five times decisively held that anti-poll-tax legislation is constitutional, and if it was permit. Jed to come jjolje, the, senate would similarly hold. After A all, the luprems court will decide thii issue not congress. BY BECK Parental Problems NOW DON'T WORRY- ITS JUST SOME WILD BERRIES HE S EATEN AND THESE COUNTRV DOCTORS KNOW HOw TO HANDLE SUCH CASES SIPS FOR SUPPER Practicing Up By DON UPJOHN It's the 31st annual state convention of the American Legion for Oregon which will be staged here this week, with prepara tions well under way as is evident over the downtown section. That is's the 31st of such conven- YfWj tions i n d icates, that time, marches on for' the Legionnaires of the first world war and w e understand I that a lot of them have been doing some pract icing up with those fun Dob OpJoba ny hats they wear. Yea, the re- William "Bill" Warren, United port is they stand before the press correspondent here, has glass in the evening adjusting discovered an FT & BA crow, their hats so as to have them Yea, up at Willson park the other just right, with the bald spot day he spied a crow which in covered up and the little fringe turn had spied a dried up crust of hair showing nicely all of bread, retrieved it, and had around the edge. But even that flown to a branch in a high wont conceal the grey. Nor will tree where he was trying to mas some of them, our FT & BA ticate it with what were appar members, make quite the racket ently clackerless jaws. For the they used to for fear the plates crow couldn't quite make it. But might drop out. But it will be a crow is a cagy bird. After a great convention and there's some futile attempts with the lots of life in the old boys yet, dry crust he flew down to the to say nothing of the young water fountain where there are ones, that live new crop which some drinking receptacles which will be just as nimble as their were used for horses in the old daddies were before them. Yea, days and through which the it will still be no place for fresh water still flows. He dunk Cinderella, ed the crust in the fountain, sat by on the branch for a min- What Price Security ute or two and returned and Seattle tfP)-A man who lived gobbled up his lunch. It may i j , j ,. , . , have been only bread and water, in a dilapidated shack, ate only but to the cr0Wi said BiUi you stale bread and potatoes and all, could see it was darned palat- hi brother said, because he able. The Trap Was Baited Klamath Falls U.R) Like mice, the would-be burglars took the bait. Tim Wilder left a fake cash register In his service station after he locked up at night. - Sure enough, Burglars broke in and made off with the ersatz register. HAPPY MAN AFTER LONG WAIT Patient Poon Lim Gets Wish: U. S. Citizenship By 1IARMAN W. NICHOLS Washington, Aug. 1 U.R It took an act of congress to make. Poon Lim a happy man. It also took a long time. But Poon Lim is a man of patience and fortitude. The young native of China's Hainan island set out to make the United States his native home. He had put up with a lot in pounded out crude tackle from China. Rice morning, noon and the key. night. Chasing tennis balls for When his food started to hit big shots for a penny a day. the danger line, Poon Lim made Pulling a two-whcelcr over cob- a small hook from the wire bles. How much can a man spring in his flashlight, which stand? had been fastened to his belt Congress did its part not long when he was dumped overboard, ago. The national geographic Then he unraveled strands of provided the background, rope which he twisted into a through its files. crude fish line. Of course, lie had no bait, but Poon Lim signed on with the barnacles can come in handy. British marine in Hong Kong He scraped them off the side of when the Japs started to drop his raft with his fingernails and destruction on Hainan. It look- used them to catch an occasional ed like a step in the right dircc- minnow. tion. Then he used the minnows to He was a steward aboard the cast for larger game. S. S. Benlomond when the ves- p00n Lim made heavier tackle sel was torpedoed 15 days away bv grubbing a nail out of the from Capetown on its way to pianking in the raft. Before South America early in World you could say Robinson Crusoe, War II. he was hauling in 20-pounders. Our man was out of his head. He ate all he could hold of each Had it not been for his life catch and strung the rest up to jacket, he would have gone dry and cure in the hot sun. under. At length, he managed Many times, the Chinese sight to reach a vacant barrel raft. ed ships that might have rescued This flimsy craft, it happened, him. He waved his hands and held 10 gallons of water and hung his undershirt on a mast, emergency rations he made to but all passed him by. He fig last for 50 days. ured that if his time had come In all, he rode the bounding there it was. main for 133 days. On 83 of At long last, help came in the these days he wasn't ever sure form of a small fishing boat whether he would get a drink manned by a Brazilian family, of water or something to eat After three davs of sailing, they During those awful days, a score dumped him ashore at Salinas, of heroes emerged under similar )n the state of Para, Brazil, circumstances, but few of them . put up with the things Poon From that point he started Lim did. through channels to get himself into American citizenship. What Aboard his raft, naturally, he thought was his best bet fail there was no fishing equipment, ed. He tried to enlist in the U. No first aid kit. And no tools, S. navy, but was turned down, except a big iron key to the Flat feet! water tank. Finally, congress gave him the But being a man of more thing he cherished most Amer- than coniiderablt resources, ht lean citizenship. tO FEEL SO MUCH BETTER IF WE HAD "HIIJ ':' M OUR REGULAR DOCTOR... I j f OH, WHY COULDNT H 1 M BjV hav Mrreo till we f,i li 1 1 tieroc Ljruue Tri cc-r wl I 1!' , wanted to save for security, died Friday leaving an estimated $50, 000. For more than 20 years Fred Willson, about 75, lived the life of a pauper. He collected wood from the ship canal and sold it to his neighbors. "He apparently was just saving for security," said Raymond C. Pun nett, his investment broker. Will son is survived by a brother in California. WASHINGTON MERRY G. O. P. Factions Row Over Choice for Chairman By DREW PEARSON Washington All it not harmony inside the republican national committee as it nears the job of picking a new chairman. It was hoped that when Pennsylvania's Hugh Scott, a Dewey man, resigned, diverse GOP factions would bury the hatchet and pull together. But they haven't. Today, there is just about as much inside dissension as there was over controversial Hugh Scott. This time the feuding is over the top candi date for the chairmanship U Guy Gabrielson of Bernar ds ville, N.J., na tional commit t e e m a n from New Jersey. m L . ..,, Drew Peftrton a s t week the chairmanship appeared to be all set for Gabrielson. Since then, sudden and stiff opposition has developed. For one thing, it is strongly suspect ed that he is a Stassen man. Ev- en more important, republican randum gave a glowing descrip congressmen from New Jersey tion of Waitt's virtues and are almost solidly opposed. En achievements; also exposed the bloc they called on Ex-Speaker faults and failings of other can Joe Martin, and registered their didates to be chief of chemical objection. warfare. Usually it's an honor to have One interesting point is that a national chairman selected Gen. Waitt sat on an army's from your stale, but in this case evaluation board to pass upon New Jersey congressmen want- his brother officers and had ed to forego the honor if Ga- previously given high recom brielson is to be the man. mendations to the very same of- Another strike against Gabri- ficers whose qualifications he elson is the fact that he is from deprecated in the memorandum the east, and that Scott's resig- which he dictated for Lobbyist nation was forced because a Hunt midwesterner was needed as NOTE When Douglas Mac chairman (Gabrielson was born Arthur wanted promot?,n t0 the in Sioux Rapids, la., but has l.v- rank of Major General h ed in New Jersey for some his wiffi,s stepfathei, tn . ' wealthy Edward T. Stotesbury Another complaint is that at of Philadelphia, to intervene at the last Omaha meeting of the the White House. Stntehiirv GOP, Mrs. Reeve Schley of New Jersey, whose husband is vice president of the Chase National bank, wanted to be on the execu tive committee in place of Mrs. Worthington Scranton of Scran ton, Pa. Accordingly, Mrs. Scranton was persuaded to re sign in favor of Mrs. Schley, fol lowing which Gabrielson did not pass this choice plum to Mrs. Schley but usurped it for him self. This made sore. many people Meanwhile, a lot of wires are being pulled to put Gabrielson across. His chief backers are --- -, Creager, Arizona s Novelist Cla- rison Spangler of Iowa, Senator Sam Brewster of Maine, and Pryor, former committeeman from Connecticut and vice presi dent of Pan American Airways. Pryor has even secured the help of a public-relations firm, Andrew Gahagen of 270 Park avenue. New York, to put Ga brielson across, and one of its representatives, Lee McCann, has been in Washington button- holing the boys. NnTF. Tnn pnnHiHnfp for thp JNU1J! iop candidate ior tne nOP rhnirmnnshin if Gnhriplon doesn't make it is Harrv Darbv. GOP committeeman from Kan- clty clrcles about the driveway, sas, who is chairman of the Kan- Tne central, main building sas City Airways and of the Kan- whence I am writing is support sas Palamino Horse Exhibitors association. Darby is acceptable MacKENZIE'S COLUMN to Dewey and most other fac- Z. L tions but doesn't seem to want the job. DULLES' NEW JOB It may or may not have been significant, but John Foster Dul les, the famed new senator from New York, has been appointed to the senate committee govern ing the District of Columbia. In voteless Washington this means that he will have a great deal to say about governing Washington including its pub lic utilities. Significantly, it happens that the Dulles law firm, Sullivan and Cromwell is attorney for the Washington Gas Light com pany, also for the Potomac Elec tric company, also for the Wash ington RR and Transit Co., which owns the Capital Transit Co. At the time when Senator Dulles was appointed to the Dis trict of Columbia'' committee, these utilities are asking for rate increases, while the Wash ington Railway and Electric Co. proposes the sale of its 44 per cent interest in the Capital Transit Co. to outside interests. In fairness to Senator Dulles, it should be noted that he wanted appointment to the for- no opening developed. Senator Schoeppel of Kansas was moved off the District of Columbia committee, and Dulles took his nlflrp Senator Dulles remarked, in- cidentally, that he knew nothing about D.C. problems with the exception of the bill to kill the capital's population of starlings. Though he liked birds, he said he did not like starlings. C.ENERAL AND PROMOTION Here is one inside reason why Gen. Alden Waitt, chief of the army s chemical warfare sec tion, got suspended for dealing with Lobbyist James V. Hunt, close friend of General Harry Vaughn, White House military aide. General Waitt has been chief of the chemical warfare section for nearly four years, and ordin- rily chiefa of army bureaus art - GO - ROUND not reappointed. They are trans ferred to the field. However, Waitt wanted to continue in his lush Washington office in which after quite a howl he had just installed a new tile bath room, kitchenette, air cooling, etc. So General Waitt, appreciat ing Lobbyist Hunt's friendship with General Vaughan, and also appreciating General Vaughan's power around the White House, asked Hunt's help in securing his reappointment. Hunt in turn proposed that General Waitt dictate a memorandum which Hunt would then send to General Vaughan. This General Waitt did, using Hunt's secretary. The memo- j. f. Morgan partner, was heavy G.O.P. contributor. (CopyrUnc 1949) OPEN FORUM Harris Reports on Printers' Home To the Editor: Reached Colorado Springs (July 17). Was met at the station by a young man with a car from the union printer's home and was soon delivered to this printers' rest (a home for the aged . . . main- tamed by International Typo- InS1 1" aLlLrHad ood W mimher to tVl thptn fZethintaf.t tho hi " wli n1 more man i naa neara ana ex- pected. After the formalities, I soon ran across an old friend, Arthur Brock, vuhinh morfo m fppl - home. By exploration and con- versation I have learned that there are about 400 plus of print- er population, a few of which ar,e women, ine view irom where I write features Pike's feak '"the distance over a a landscape such as I nave never Deiore seen. At iz- iiimuie intervals me nine duo that keePs us in touch with the Tito's Fight With Kremlin Rates as a Great Drama By DeWITT MacKENZIE .wi m.1.. Ati.ir. Aaum. One of the great human dramas of our time is the defiance ot Kussia Dy Marsnau Tito, Jugoslav aictator, wno nas Deen out- lawed by the Soviet for pursuing nationalism for his country, contrary to thepr; policy of the Kremlin which holds in effect that sovereignty o f communist countries rests in Moscow. I have an il luminating ac count of this battle from Alex H. Single ton, AP corre OelVitt Maekenil HI -4 1 spondent in the Yugoslav capi- friendly relations with the west "Yox just haYf.,t hv cou tal of Belgrade, and I want to (and would make tne iot of the fse and responsibility," she said. nrpepnt him here as guest col- f - - umnist. He observes that Tito has turned to the western powers to ease the economic pressure being applied against him by the communist countries of Eu rope, and continues: For more than a year Tito has withstood Moscow's attempts to hrine him to his knees. It is bvi?U! ,that he ,I!m der has been to starve him out, and members of the cominform (communist information bu reau) have been following in- 'ructions. Trade ties have been cut be tween Yugoslavia and four corn inform countries Albania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland. Yugoslav commerce with Bulgaria and Romania is almost dead. Traffic with Rus- m lAUS- sia has been reduced to a trickle. Tito's reaction was made clear in a speech. He declared that Yugoslavia would trade with the tightened, Tito has looked to the west for the things she needs, west to find markets for Yugo- provided no political strings are slavia's export of food, mineral attached. ore and timber and to collect Said the marshal: dollars and English pounds to "When we sell copper, we buy buy machinery and finiiTied machines. We do not sell our goods for home use. ..consciences qrpur .spujs,b.ut justuJije ..United States hesitated copper."1 for nearly nin month while BY GUILD Wizard of Odds ACCIDENTAl HOME ELECTRO CUTIONS, BY EVEN ODDS. OCCUR IN THE BATHROOM. IN TOWNS YOU CAN CALL FOR JfH . (meSff:.mLA ODDS ARE ONLY I IN 1,000 YOU USE THAT SERVICE-. BUT IF THE TEMPERATURE HITS 100, ODDS INCREASE 7 TIMES. DDnb AjMM'C DUII nSnPMPD Mrs. Van, an Old Lady With a Bright Faith By HAL BOYLE New York W) People sometimes say: "The only way you can get in the newspapers is to 'hold up a drugstore or elope with a movie star." So today I'd I like to tell you the story of a simple heart the story of "Mrs. Van." She is a fine old lady who never robbed bank or ran I against Harry l? Truman for j president. "But I've had a wonderful life," she said. It might not seem so to some peo- ed bv another large dormitorv Wlli,ch plicated in general i. 7 f k """" w USef the tubefrc"los's ?an,tr- ium long one of the best in the ings is the heating plant, about nan a dozen Darns wnere are housed the herd of Holsteins and near bv the large silos and the "umc Ui Knnk ehirkpns. Rpvnnn thpsp ;. , . . . .. are me neias oi corn ana otner foods for the animals. . . . Inside, the residents in good heaJth' each has. a room and 'uu iv nose -"-"- 'I "ir, en the best of hospital ser- vlcn' thousands ot"?8?"? , . , . beautifully scenic nature in the , , " R. A. HARRIS, Union Printers Home, Colorado Springs, Colo. At the same time, he an nounced officially that Yugo- i ii,o L ic ini include $280,000,000 from the international bank. Approval could ease a lot of Yugoslavia's economic growing pains. Tito also cleared the air a bit on a number of political points. He said Yugoslavia planned to close the Greek border "com pletely" an action which WrtlllH Viptr, Viie onimfp,, doiialAn communist guerrillas in Greece harder). But Tito made it clear Yugo- slavia never will abandon her claim for a slice of Austria's Carinthia or relinquish its voice in determining the future of in- dependent Trieste. On both those points he lined up against objectives of the west, ... Tito was denounced as a com munist heretic on June 28, 1948. He was expelled from the cominform and was accused by Russia and the Soviet satellites of pursuing "Trotskyite" poli cies of nationalism. To a world impressed by the postwar steamroller tactics of Russia's military-minded diplo- macy, there seemed, at first glance, but little chance that rrtn rnnlH Clirvivo nc nt a ".n ,. still the head man in a lonely, independent Yugoslavia. As the economic squeeze has . . Hal BojU IF YOU AREN'T HURT IN YOUR HOME TODAY, YOU RE LUCKY- 15 INJURIES nrr DtuFBV iMst-rfiN is intheu.s rirr WHERE THE WEATHER FORECAST. pie, but it does to her. She has a long Dutch name, but she is shy and asked me not to use it. So I'll just call her "Mrs. Van" as everybody does. Mrs. Van is a practical nurse. She is white-haired and 63, but her skin is as fair as milk. I got to know her when she came to stay with a young neighbor couple expecting their second child. She. would only accept $10 a week. When the baby came, the young mother said: "Do you know what Mrs. Van did with half of her first week's pay? She bought me flowers." Money doesn't mean much any more to Mrs. Van. But be ing helpful does. She likes the younger genera tion and disapproves of it. "I don't think they can face i.- .... JSJ tave dipkf I had she said. "They lived as young girls do .today I would never have been able to confront tne problems z met with my married life no, never." Mrs Van was born in Holland and m'arried a carpenter at 21 They had five children when i x n-- T:ij a"' umiea ataies to found a new home here. It was iust nt thp timp Ampripn entered the first World War, and for two years he couldn't send money back to his family. J move imo an aran- doned schoolhouse said Mrs. Ju "Wu-,jlad f , breakfast: and he children took a carrot ui a Lunnp 10 scnooi. ror luncn u T j vve iictu put-aiues, ana jl soveu lib L-iitij niiu luualu tiiciii for supper. "The neighbors felt sorry for us, but I was happy. We were all together the children and I and we were healthy." After the war she and the children came over, and the family settled in Pennsylvania. Mrs. Van had twins at the age of 39, and one died. Later her husband lost his mind. He spent 1 J!ve '". me"tal 1Jns'!rtu- t'on before his death, and Mrs. Van had to s"PPort the family. "I didn't know the language well," she said. "So I had to work as a scrubwoman and do washing. Then I studied the language with the children and I never was in want of a job." "Now the children don't want me to work. They say 1 worked all my life for them, and now I should rest. But I like to helpi' where I can." She has a serene faith that never faltered in her long years iinuui Luuiage mere is Hom ing.1 . . . . . , tryin5 to declde whether the T.w between the cominform and TJto was the real thinS. and thenA rem.oved most restrictions n"leI,ran lraQe wun ru8- slavia. Tito's trade officials have ne gotiated a number of agree ments with western European countries. Naturally, this hasn't pleased the Russians. The Soviet press has blasted away with charges that Tito has been flirting with the "capialistic, imperialistic" ? the PrmclPle.s .f Marxism. Tito's press has blasted back, It has retorted repeatedly that Russia and the satpllitp nnnn- tr-ioo An : Z?'"VL fv.uk.,, ,uni hicii utrdi: wilii Lne west have been in far greater volume than those of Yugo- slavia. Through it all, Tito has pro- fessed his allegiance to the cause of communism. Put it down, perhaps, to the fact that Tito lone among the communists leaders of eastern Europe won his own way to power. The rest of them rode in on the backs of the Red afmy, 1