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Capital AJournal
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 Phonec: ?'isiness, Newsroom, Want
Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409.
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The United Press. The Associated Press is exclusively
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credited to it or otherwise credited in this paper and also
news published therein.
4 Salem, Oregon, Saturday, August 6, 1949
What's Wrong With the Hospital Drive?
Salem's hospital campaign has taken on new life.
With only a week left, the drive to raise money for the
two local huspitals has been disappointing so far. Dona
tions to the two community institutions have been so few
and small in total as to suggest the question : Are the peo
ple of Salem less able to give than many smaller communi
ties of Oregon ?
The response to date in the fund-raising campaign would
indicate that the people of Salem were less able to give.
But anyone in the city will readily answer that such is actu
ally not the case.
Al Loucks, chairman of the public division of the cam
paign, hit on what probably is the reason for the short
comings of the drive. He blamed the lack of response on
the lack of a broad enough base of appeal for funds. In
other words, the people of the city have not yet really
given their dimes, quarters and dollars for the hospitals
which are here to serve them when sickness hits.
Too few people have given so far. It is a question of the
number of individuals donating, as well as the amount
given. If every person gave as much as he could as an in
vestment in a bed in case of need, the drive would reach
the total needed. The idea must be gotten across that any
amount of contribution is welcomed from a small coin to
folding money.
The campaign group is to be congratulated on admitting
its mistaken and reorganizing for a fast wind-up for the
coming week. Each person in the greater Salem area will
benefit by putting more hospital beds and facilities in the
community. Proper hospital care demands that enough
money be raised in this campaign to add those beds and
facilities.
Salem has a week to go in which to raise enough money
to build its hospitals. The new life in the fund-raising
campaign is designed to preserve life in the community.
The number of dimes, quarters, and dollars collected in
the week will help determine that.
There is only a week left in which to do the job. Next
week means the difference between raising enough money
for adequate care or going short in both money and care.
There is no choice, of course.
Can anyone doubt which choice Salem will make?
Hiroshima Bomb Anniversary
Just four years ago the city of Hiroshima was wiped out
by the first atomic bomb and became the martyr of modern
warfare. The anniversary was observed by 300,000 people
who stood in bowed silence at the same time the bomb of
death fell on the community, August 6, 1945. The United
Press report says:
Then the silt'nce broke and a boll tolled. It was a ringing
plea for peace among men, and It came from the city which,
more than anv other on earth, knows what a third World War
would be like.
Perhaps, the confirmed pacifists of Hiroshima were told in
a messaRe from Lt. Gen. H. C. H. Robertson perhaps the atom
bomb which almost blasted this city to oblivion will, in the
end, "make a great contribution to the cause of peace."
"It may well be," the British occupation commander said,
"that the very blow which struck the city will make . . . the
peace-loving people of the world ... so determined to prevent
similar blows that they will check the rise of any aggressor
before he can gain sufficient power to plunge the world again
into war."
A message from General MacArthur expressed hopes
that the "excellent program of the rehabilitation of the
city of Hiroshima will continue successfully." General
Walton H. Walker, commander of U.S. ground forces in
Japan predicted that the world will be impressed by Hiro
shima's dedication to peace and "other nations will learn
to profit by your example."
"No more wars, no Hiroshima," is a consumation devout
ly to be wished, but universal pence seems to be an irides
cent dream at the present time, with a globe girdling fanat
ical wave of communism poised like an atomic bomb to
blast hopes of peace and human freedom. And the only
chance for peace lies in preparedness for appeasement is
proven failure.
United to Join Salem in Fight
United Air Lines hns made up its mind about Salem.
Right from the mouth of President W. A. Patterson of the
company comes this statement: "Salem is not included on
the list of towns United Air Lines would be interested in
giving up."
This is the latest development in the coming Civil Aero
nautics Board hearing on whether or not to substitute
West Const Airlines, a feeder line, for United at Salem.
The statement was made Friday afternoon by Patterson
at San Francisco.
The significance of this position by Patterson is that it
is the first time that the Mainlincr service has announced
publicly what it intends to do about its jeopardized stop at
Oregon's capital.
This is not a change of policy by United as certain local
persons would try to claim.
At the meeting in Portland in early July, a Salem dele
gation was told by United's vice president in charge of
traffic, Harold Crary, that his company would study the
CAB proposal before committing itself one way or the
other. It was Crary's suggestion that the city go ahead
on its own to present the local case. He promised the Sa
lem representatives he would take the matter up person
ally with Patterson. Then, when the company had studied
all the facts, the United position would be made clenr.
That is what Patterson did Friday. For the first time,
he revealed wnat United intended to do about the Salem
stop: Fight, along with the city, to keep Mainlincr planes
flying in and out of the state capital.
Salem welcomes the cooperation of the airline. The join
ing of forces strengthens the chance of holding United
service here.
Ah, Sweet-Scented Oregon Air!
Los Angeles (A1) The City of noses has paid tribute to the
City of Noses.
Portland, which prides Itself on its sweet-scented Oregon
air, yesterday sent to smog-bound Los Angeles, the home of
unhappy nostrils, by air express one clothespin, four feet
long.
The gift bore a tag "to fumes-suffering Angclenos," re
ferring to the extra-acrid odors which lilt the city two days
ago. It was, naturally, a gesture from one Chamber of
Commerce to another.
First to use the giant clothespin was U. S. Weather Fore
caster John Aldrlch.
M,Sno use," be gasped. "SHU smell it."
BY BECK
A Dogs' Life
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
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Parnell Thomas Recovers Wizard of Odds
Health, But No Trial Yet
o
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
By DREW PEARSON
Washington It has now been exactly one year since this column
fist exposed both the kickback skulduggery of Congressman
Parnell Thomas of New Jersey and the fact that he had had
soldiers transferred away from the war front in return for
political contributions. '
kick Gen. Harry vaughan up
stairs providing "that S. O. B.
Drew Pearson and the senate in
vestigating committee don't
make things too hot.
This stubborn loyalty quirk
in Harry Truman's makeup has
been admired by s'ime people
but doesn't benefit the taxpay
ers or those interested In good
government.
Furthermore, the new White
House thinking about General
Vaughan arises just as another
better question-mark in the extra
ordinary ute or the general is
Since then,
Thomas has
been indicted,
but pled sick
ness and has
never faced
trial. f
The other
day, however,
he was seen
driving up to
the Statler ho
tel in a sleek
green Cadillac
convertible looking
health than ever.
Drew PetniD
in
'Known Only to God' on Grave,
But Loved Ones Never Forgotten
BY REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
Rector St Paul's Cpucopal Churcb
Despite his good health and bein? raised namely what con-
prosperity, republican leaders in necuon "e nan witn tne attempi-
the house of representatives ed Purchase of all the remaining
have quietly gone to democratic army scraP lror in German,
leaders to ask that the indict- , TnlTs was another deal involv-
ment against Thomas be drop- ln,g Lobbyist James V. Hunt,
pecl whose diary reads as if he were
r'nn.m.n .tiMr tooihor almost a member of the White
. . B . in1t J ...1 ...I.U
and democratic leaders are plan- f "i "
ning to pass this plea on to the """"' U,"-B ""a
YOU'RE NOT A PSYCHOPATHIC CASE BY
ODDS OF ONLY 13 TO I.
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SERVICE RECORDS. uf rt
(LW) IF YOU HAVE
liOi I IWMhWr' SEVEN OR MORE
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scones wm this.) . .irr; 2?"s "
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
the
with
army
c..,i ,,.. hll aeailnnino at Spasirie. Or.. I came Justice deDartment. Dana P'3? one 01 uni s musical
upon a mound of stones along a rocky beach. A marker indicated What will be done about it lllt' at a Whlte House
that this was the place where the bodies of three young sailors if anything will be one of the sarQen party.
White Paper on China
Leaves Out Future Policy
had been wash
ed ashore.
The inscrip
tion identified
them in one
terse sentence
"Known only
to God."
Passing the
place again last
week, I noticed
the mound had
been altered ,,. Mrr, ,Viii
somewhat into
first problems faced by the new
ThA irran.irnn rlonl t nrlr nlantt
simply to give them protection attorney general, J. Howard Mc- jn March, 1947, when Benny
from the gulls and to provide Grath. ... Bender of Shreveport, La., went
them with a decent burial. . ,.. to Germany and signed a con
While at first thought it does HARDEN AND THE POPE tract with the army lor 150 000
seem sad that the world does Congressman Graham Barden tons of scrap iron on behalf of
not know these men, on second of North Carolina, bitterly at- the Carnegie-Illinois Steel corn
thought we realize that after all, tacked by Cardinal Spellman pany
they are known to God. over hls aid-to-education bill, Returning to the U. S. A.,
As a matter of fact, whether was in Rome last year where he Bender found himself in some
we shall be laid away in an urn, was received by his holiness trouble with Carnegie-Illinois,
in a mausoleum, in a grave, or ,P?. ,us- which apparently had not given
in the waters of the sea, we shall Wlth the congressman was him full authority to act and
iiuin thereafter hp fomoltpn hv MrS. Barden and their pretty 15- whirh refused in hnnnr a nVaft
the semblance of a simple mon- the world about us. But we shall year-ia aaugmer, Agnes. against them for $206,000.
umcnt. still be know to God. Barden and the pope had a Bender was then faced with
Thp i,i,, cirfi . a. That is all that really matters os cordial conversation, fol- the problem of getting the army
The Unknown Soldier In Ar- lowing which his holiness pre- contract for the scrap iron trans-
2"o( hCS l JTEhv' When we feel discouraged, un- fented the former North Caro- ferred to his name "rather than
SnarH Infln 11! !S appreciated, forgotten, and we Ima schoolteacher with a bronze that of Carnegie-Illinois, a rath-
nhnut hifKmh Hp ha"'hZ '"ink no one cares; we should Pocket-piece bearing the like- cr difficult deal, since Bender
2 .vmhni i T" p CmH-be strengthened and comforted ne of ,the PPe- , . had no sizable funds of his own.
a symbol of honor, sacrifice, and ...... "L .... . He also fiave one to Aenes it hi :.. ,u..
, i ,i uy me assuiauLc mat uuu never , . . . r , " aa ai una iiuim iiiat oeiiu-
By JAMES. D. WHITE W
(Sututltutlni for DeWItt MicKenzle, AP Forelin Nam Analnt)
The official American side of what has been happening in
China was made public Friday.
Judging from early press summaries, the stats department's
long white paper tells, on the
whole, little that has not been criticism of the old policy that
known or surmised. we pay too much attention to
But it gives detailed reasons Europe,
for the end of one policy toward They say Europe is far better
China and east Asia and equipped industrially than Asia,
opens the way toward creation lives better, is more stable na
of a new one. tionally, and therefore is less
The task of building a new susceptible to the inroads of
policy on the wreckage of the communism which we say we
old is in the long run one of are out to stP-
the most dangerous ever to face Yet there's the question of
American statesmen. whether Asia could assimilate
t rv,io x a;o aid like that in Europe, and it
In China and Asia more than . M .
Ln j i u- so, who could afford it?
half a world is shedding the . HJI. ,,,,
hv f ho ntciiranrn that dnrt nouop
uaraen, ana in aoing so. ne tooK Pr wnt vinnn1. fripr,
The three unidentified sailors We shall always be known to . ,g i .? ln Dotn 01 ms ana Lobbyist Hunt, the reputed mir-
... " 5 acie man wno was supposed to
beautiful child. be able to accomplish anything
Greatly impressed, little Ag- Wjth the army,
nes ever forgot that visit. A Hunt signed' a contract with
Presbyterian, she sang the Bender April 15, '47, by which
pope's praises to other children he agreed to get the army to
when she got back to North Car- transfer the scrap iron from
oll"a- Carnegie - Illinois to Bender.
Then, one morning last month Hunt's fee for this transfer was
she picked the paper up from to be $12 500
the front door and brought it to if the transfer was for the best
her father. Across the front page interests of the army, of course,
were headlines: "Cardinal Spell- n0 fee or undUe influence should
man Attacks Congressman Bar- havp hpon
uuring ineir conversations,
lie upon a rocky beach, unsung, God
unknown to their fellow men. When we leave our loved ones
Their bodies were not placed in the care of mother earth, they
there to symbolize anything, are never forgotten. They are
They were covered with rocks still known to God.
SIPS FOR SUPPER
where what we can do will work
with Asiatics?
Here in America, internal poli
tical differences over China and
New H
onzons
By DON UPJOHN
den.'
Today's sudden rains caught our old friend County Engineer
Hedda Swart with his Table Rock down, as it were. Our custom
ers well know that Hedda has long contended that whenever it
rains in the valley there is
snow on Table Rock, or vice for the American Legion state say
veisci, II we uitiy &u any, wnen
there's snow on Table Rock there
is cninc to be
rain in the val r"rt
ley. So when t
we r e q u e s ted
him today to
explain this phe
nomena of rain
all over the
grounds and
buildings and
things when by
all the laws of
nature there
should be no
snow on Table
stumped? Not
II
"Oh, Daddy," exclaimed Ag- Hunt introduced Bender to Gen
nes, in distress, "I'm sure the eral Vaughan outside Hunt's of
pope couldn't have told him to fice in the Barr building as the
sav that ' "mnn t 4u .i . ...t-
convention parade. Trying to ... . "'"" t, ?"uul w" 15
get around downtown in a car VAUGHAN BE OUSTED? ZT Vaughan had'Teft the
nil. leV.hLParade W"S " Around tnc White House "'s White House to call at Hunt's of-
neat trick but there was sure a now said that President Truman fjce
lotta people did it. is looking for a painless way to This was the only time Ben
der actually met Vaughan,
though Lobbyist Hunt harped on
the idea that Vaughan was help
ing him arrange the transfer.
...
Whatever influence was used,
the transfer went through with
amazing speed one day and a
half. For those accustomed to
government red tape, this was
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Happy Ending for Poor
$1500-a-Week Writers
Rock,
i bit.
was he
He said
By HAL BOYLE
Vnrir im t tu i un j ...:4. u.j phenomenal
very little to live for. , rur armv teletype messages
He supported a house or two. a wifp nr thi-PP snmp Phi H w"e nangea wn uermany
chains of its feudal and colonial
past. Communism is making a
long planned play for the major
ity of the human race at an op
portune moment in world his-
inrv
,, ' ...., . . Asiatic policy could strongly in-
What will be the new Amen- fillence what comes out in the
can policy to counter this? end. The administration seeks to
The white paper is vague. get other measures through con
Secretary Acheson says mere- gress too, and compromise may
ly that America must "encour- result.
age all developments" in China But Asia herself may try to
aimed at throwing off the "for- influence thei policy. Any grave
eign yoke" of Moscow-directed crisis there might well subordin
communism. That could mean ate the need for long term plan
anything from helping refugee ning to that of meeting an emer
Chinese students to flying baz- gency.- This is possible because
ookas in to the Moslems of the instruments America seeks
China's northwest. to use in her global battle against
Russian communism do not al-
So the policy itself remains ways behave according to Amer
to be shaped, by a special board, ican wishes,
and the job is a tough one for Such an instrument ' was
many reasons. Chiang Kai-Shek of China.
Some formula must be ham- The best and most persistent
mered out that will fit in. with information is that many Asiatic
U. S. Policy elsewhere and still leaders think World War III is
sit passably well with the peo- inevitable anyway, as do the
pie most concerned those in communists.
Asia. In their eyes the question may
It has to satisfy their chief be: Why wait any longer?
Things Are Tough in Tokyo
Tokyo (P) Police picking up pickpockets picked up the
president of an automobile body plant.
. And what, they asked the little Japanese industrialist, was
such a respectable citizen doing picking pockets?
Collections from customers were most difficult, he re
plied. Had to get money some way to pay the help.
when he looked out of the win- a few servants
dow of his home on the heights and a five
this a.m., across the valley to star ulcer. This
Cascades he saw a white aura brought him lit
around Mts. Jefferson and Hood, 1 1 e happiness
right at the tip top of each and for, after all, he
circling same like a wedding was only a writ
er an engagement band. "This cr.
time," said Hedda. "it was snow- And in the
Ing on Ml. Jefferson and Ml. h I e r archy of
Hood, that must be what did it." Ho'lyw ood a
This, of course, opens up an en- writer was just
tirely new vista of weather re- a $1.500-a-weck
norting around here and widens object of char- hh n,i
the sphere of influence consid- ity. His forlorn paper dream rewHtinff .ePhnjn.,
V.I.. if ICc anina In rain .. K Hip """'""8 ICLHIlique .
down here evcrytime it snows producer, misconceived by the Buchman himself wrote such
on the top of Jefferson or Hood director, ambushed by the ac- f"'psns Te Sign of the Cross,"
we can look forward to some tors. and left writhing on the ln.?,oclra Go,";" Wild," "Mr.
quite moist days. floor bv the film cutter. mi,h 9,oes t0 WaslnStn." and
, ... . ,, , ... "Here Comes Mr. Jordan."
Incidentally, we have more The only thing left of his He became a producer in 1937
.. . nnctna nrnrhirt in many cases . , . .
faith in the coinsincnce mat jusi -- - - ana is oesi Known lor his mu
gs it rained today announce
ment also was made that pick
ing of early fuggle hops had
started down Aurora way.
whereupon the transfer of title OPEN FORUM
When a writer trying to im- corporation to little Benny Ben
plement his work in film first der of shreveport, La., for all
comes down from the ivory tow- the remaining scrap iron in Ger
er, he falters a bit, then takes many was accomplished,
to it like a duck takes to water. in the end, the scrap iron ring
"After all who has a better in the United States made it dif
underslanding of the script than ficult for Bender to sell his scrap
the man who writes it? Why and the deal fell through. Ben
shouldn't he be able to pick der and Hunt quarreled over
and direct the cast and see that payment, and Hunt finally sued
they carry out his own conceo- Bender for his $1-2,500 fee. Ben-
tions? And as for cutting the der, m turn, took bankruptcy'
film, what is that but another anci the fee was settled for
$10,000.
But the secret strings by
which Vaughan's friend so
blithely and quickly transferred
the scrap iron from Carnegie
Illinois to Benny Bender still
has those who know the army
gasping.
Or, perhaps, the fact we hap-
wb "','''' Slc dramas, including "A Song MERRY-GO-ROUND
Uie screen ,0, r-" .bT " the lif" Little noticed in the rush of
me screen. o( Chopin. His atest is "Jol- the 81st congress is constructive
Today all this is changed, t son Sings Again," a Columbia Senator Fulbright's bill to use
i, now possible for movie writ- production. the balance of the Finnish debt
ers to get ahead in the world r lik . . , educate Finnish t,,HpnU in
.,,! i ..n,,,,,!., jpiin Crnitiw ... . ., j u. - 1 1,Ke lne music arama lorm lu eiiucme rinnisn students in
wn in nT ree? thia m V.""" """Y'"8 ""daughter and I want to do more, he said, the U. S. A. Finland was the
Wilson on the street this a.m., ( tlc man who owns the studio. ..Th. K , " "". -.,, , T
walking along in the rain and Tnere . happy ending for , Phas f . " ul e aft r'l w" 1
too,
she reported that entries which them now,
closed at the state fair yesterday
were the heaviest she could re
member and she can remem
ber back about the state fair
for a mighty long time and
maybe that might have Just na
turally stirred up the moisture.
Or there was Harvey Tautfest,
ending tor lif tn t n1 i.,c, which keDt on navinff hep rieht
attainted with is irpent music and now the senator from Ar-
They can work their way up and they don't know the im- Kansas proposes that this fidel-
to become directors, producers portance of this type of genius. Itv De rewarded by closer scho-
and yes even film cutters. The great composers contribute lastic lies with us-
Some of them now write, pro- as much to the world as any Tireless Congressman George
duce, direct, and cut the film, man." Miller of Oakland, Calif., is try-
They run the show from Idea to Buchman plans to make films 'ng o Persuade the maritime
screen. presenting more classical and c,ommii?i?n lP en(ourage more
This is all to the good in operatic music, climaxed finally smPuuaing in west coast snip-
Man Same as 30,000 Years Ago?
To the editor: Charles R. Knight, whose murals of prehis
toric men and animals hang on the walls of natural history
museums, has spent 55 years studying man and earth as they
were in the days of the Dinossaurs.
Twenty-five years ago he ate some marrow from th bones
of a worily mammoth uncovered
in Alaska where it had been ly than were our Cro-Magnon
quick-frozen ln a glacier for ancestors. Modern man, he says,
10,000 years. He found it ran- "is .a deliberate fool the worst
cid. kind of a fool," and that "he
Though this prehistoric paint- will destroy himself unless he ('
er had lived, primarily, in the returns to spiritual ways" and
past, at 74 he has some fresh the leadership of a Confuclous,
ideas. He thinks, for instance, a Christ or a Mohammed,
that Cro-Magnon man who oc- Here's one scientist on the
cupied Europe 30,000 years ago, right track. He doesn't fit the
was "just as good a man as we classic critique made by Gener- J
are, mentally and physically," al Omar Bradley on Armistice
and would get along, all right Day in Boston: "We have too
in Europe or New York today many men of science; too few
after he caught onto our ways of God. We have grasped the
and what the confusion was all mystery of the atom and neg
about. lected the Sermon on the
Knight is convinced that man- Mount."
kind's biggest defeat is his fail- CHARLES T. McPHERSON
ure to develop his soul. He 1983 SW Sixth Avenue
thinks we're no better spiritual- Portland 7, Oregon
the new city detective, who be- the opinion of Sidney Buchman, by a picture on Beethoven's life. J1arfSTno,w eL He points Lout
cause he s city nciective now wno spent a necaae as a writer
has to wear a hat under the rules
and regulations and he was pad-
"That one," he said, "would V"P"e SiI.?"!! "til
In some studios 75 per cent could be only practice pieces for .u!" -u " ....- .
dllng along through the rain f the producers are writers or it." (coprriiht litx
still in his straw nai. i m going lormer writers," he said. "And
to have to get rid of this hat," about half are carrying out both
commented Harvey, ' it mis functions.
weather keeps up long I may Buchman, 47. is an expressive-
ou , , i . a featured man who looks and ges
start smoking a pipe." Which
will be OK as long as he avoids
the needle.
lures more like Ezio Pinza or
John Barrymore than a man
who got his callouses studying
a typewriter.
While we haven't heard of anv "If a man has the skill to
official count being taken we'd write a fine script," he said,
be willing to make a small bet "he certainly should have the
that a new high in the number Judgment to carry it out to
of people and automobiles in know whether a set is right or
town was reached last evening a costume is right.
ENROLL NOW!
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