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4 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, August 10, 1949
Still a Timely Warning
On this, the 75th birthday anniversary of ex-President
Herbert Hoover, belatedly now acknowledged as one ofrthe
greatest Americans and foremost humanitarians of the
world, it is fitting to reprint one of the best speeches he
ever made. It was a warning to Americans on the "weak
ening of the structure of liberty in our nation," and is
even now more timely than when delivered nine years
ago.
The brief address was made at the national republi
can convention in Philadelphia and in the excitement of
the struggle ending in the nomination of Wendell Willkie
and Charles L. McNary, attracted as little attention as did
. Lincoln's Gettysburg speech on its delivery. Mr. Hoover
cited Europe's hundred-year fight for liberty and then how
Europe in less than 20 years after World War I surren
dered freedom for bondage.
This was not due to communism or fascism, said Mr.
Hoover. ' They were the effects. Out of the vexations and
dislocations came fascism in one place, communism in an
other, and "social democrats" in another, really socialists,
all winding the chains of bureaucratic planning that stran
gled private enterprise. Liberty had been weakened be
fore the dictators arouse with their appeals to prejudice
and class, racial and religious animosities. In explaining
the cause he said:
"In every single case before the rise of totalitarian gov
ernments there has been a period 'dominated by economic
planners.' Each of these nations had an era under starry
eyed men who believed that they could plan and force the i
economic life of the people. They believed that was the
way to correct abuse or to meet emergencies in systems
of free enterprise. They exalted the State as the solvent
of all economic problems.
"These men thought they were liberals. But they also
thought they could have economic dictatorship by bureauc
racy and at the same time preserve free speech, orderly
justice and free government. They might be called the
totalitarian liberals. They were the spiritual fathers of
the New Deal.
"These men are not Communists or Fascists. But they
mixed these ideas into free systems. It is true that Com
munists and Fascists were round about. They formed pop
ular fronts and gave the applause. These men shifted the
relation of government to free enterprise from that of
umpire to controller. Directly or indirectly they politically
controlled credit, prices, production of industry, farmer
and laborer. They devalued, pump-primed and deflated.
They controlled private business by government competi
tion, by regulation and by taxes. They met every failure
with demands for more and more power and control. . . ,
When it was too late they discovered that every time they
stretched abuse, then somehow, somewhere, men's minds
became confused. At once men became fearful and hesi
tant. Initiative slackened, industry slowed down produc
tion. "Then came chronic unemployment and frantic govern
ment spending in an effort to support the unemployed.
Government debts mounted and finally government credit
was undermined. Out of the miseries of their people
' there grew pressure groups business, labor, farmers, de
manding relief or special privilege. Class hate poisoned
cooperation."
A Silver-Platter Plan
Eugene is unhappy over its traffic, problem. The city
to the south apparently feels that its piece-meal attempts
to handle traffic there have turned out wholly inadequate.
Consensus of opinion in Eugene is that the only solution is
a traffic management and development plan.
The Register-Guard of that city cites a comprehensive
traffic study now being made in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Since the two cities are comparable, the features of the
Albuquerque survey are noted.
At a cost of $60,000, Albuquerque is having engineers
of the National Automotive Safety Foundation of Wash
ington, D.C., survey the area. The study is intended to
offer a program toward which the New Mexico community
can build over the next 10 or 20 years with some assurance
that money spent in building will not be wasted.
The Eugene newspaper comments that every city in the
United States is facing the problem of modernizing to meet
present and future traffic needs. Few are going about it
as intelligently as Albuquerque, the Register-Guard says.
So that Eugene might develop a "clean-cut" traffic plan,
the paper suggests a graduated levy for a five-year con
tinuing study for a functional traffic plan.
How familiar the cries sound from Eugene!
But, in the case of Salem, the desired traffic plan has
already been offered by top-rated highway engineers: The
Baldock plan. And the study is the result of years and
years of observation like the one in Albuquerque.
But what reception does a plan that Albuquerque was
forced to pay $(i0.000 for, get in Oregon's capital?
The months of haggling over whether or not the Baldock
plan should be adopted look silly when Albuquerque's and
Eugene's efforts are considered. Perhaps, if Salem had
ben forced to shell out $0)0,000, it would grab at the Bal
dock plan. But since the city had the traffic plan offered
it on a silver platter, it didn't appreciate what has been
given it. And, besides that, the plan is backed by millions
in state highway commission funds to do the job outlined.
So far, Salem has missed the true value of the Baldock
plan. But it now appears that the city council will actu
ally take definite steps next Monday night to come to a
written agreement with the highway commission to go
ahead with the Baldock plan.
The silver-platter traffic plan for Salem is what other
cities, like Eugene and Albuquerque, spend thousands of
dollars and years trying to get. Surely, the city council
now realizes that fact and will so vote next Monday night.
Anything Can Happen in Alaska
Petersburg, Alaska, Aug. M After 50 years In Alaska,
Bartender Jim Brcnnan says he is seldom surprised by any
of the "strange happenings under the midnight sun."
But Brennan reflected frank amazement at the discovery
of a plumber's crew after he couldn't get water from the
faucet. (Brennan explained that the stuff is necessary even
In a bar.)
The crew discovered a six-inch trout firmly wedged in tht
water pipe.
BY BECK
Life's Little Lessons
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Pearson, a Husband, Too,
Leaves for Vacation
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Maybe I shouldn't admit it, but I've been having
Increasing trouble with my wife lately. Usually she is the
easiest person in the world to get along with but not in August.
Every summer she labors under the delusion that Washington
is not cool in August and that I can write a column just as well
from some other
BY GUILD .
Wizard of Odds
part of the U.
S. A. She even
jolts my self
esteem by in
sinuating that
the world would
get along just
as well if no I
column was I
written at all I
for a while.
In vain do I
argue that some
one has to keep an eye on the
lobbyists and the legislators. It
does no good.
i i I
Drew Pesrion
I have always felt that the
country would have been much
better off if he had continued
in office; for General Marshall,
fine and sincere as he was, had
to unlearn the military habits of
a lifetime which was not easy.
Thus, for a year or more the
nation marked time when it
should have been marching for
ward on the road to peace.
WILL CLARK BE LIBERAL?
Some republican senators,
plus certain newspapers, have
been panning Tom Clark, the
attorney general. They claim
The five-percenters could run he is a politician, a hack lawyer
off with the U. S. treasury and and no addition to the supreme
Mrs. P. just wouldn't worry court.
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SIPS FOR SUPPER
Wrong Way Per Cent.
By DON UPJOHN
It seems some of the boys back in Washington have been making
fat on a basis of 5 per cent, according to various news dispatches.
And such dough apparently comes from money invested in war
and savings
bonds which pay
off to the inves
tor on a basis of
only about 3 per
cent. That does
n't seem quite
fair to have it si
phon off at the
other end faster
than it does at
home but the
boys are a little
smarter back
there and work
evidently.
Don UnJohD
at it harder,
Termites Tossed In
The county court has received
a postcard from a chap up Mo
lalla way who writes, "I was
told you want some cedar piling.
I would like to get a list of what
you want. Also if you'll take
wormy knots and other worm
signs. Cedar is scarce but worms
don't seem to be."
about it if the thermometer was
above 80.
In vain, also, do I scan the
weather reports and gloat over
the fact that it's been 97 in
New York, 96 in Philadelphia,
99 in Nebraska and only 95 in record of battling for the little
Washington. Washington, I guy.
argue, is a much cooler place. When Tom first became at-
But it makes no difference. torney general, critics said he
"We don't have to go to New wouldn't have the nerve to go
York, Philadelphia or Nebras- after the big monopolies. Thur-
I think they're wrong. Tom
Clark has his faults, and some
eccentricities. He looks like a
politician, he talks like a politi
cian, but when the chips are
down he's a tough, gd-through
fighter, with a pretty consistent
DETECTIVES. BY ODDS OF 9 TO 1. 6ET INFORMATION
Cttoser FROM "TIPS" ANP "SQUEALS"
ka," Mrs. P. replies. "There are
other places in the U.S.A. be
sides New York, Philadelphia
or Nebraska. Also, there's Canada."
Obviously I can't win. I
The Open Door Policy
London VP) When Nii Kwa
bena Bonne III, tribal chieftain
from British West Africa's Gold
Coast, heard about Britain's na
tional health scheme he decided
it was an opportunity not to be
overlooked, he arrived in Lon-
At Albany last night a com
mittee of sports writers and oth
ers passed out the awards for
American Legion baseball to the
best pitcher, best first baseman,
etc. When they got around to
who was the best catcher on the
four teams eight names were
passed on and the committee de
cided there wasn't any catcher
good enough for an award.
These lads stand up as backstops
all the season and have the
stuffing knocked out of them by
man Arnold's trust-busting, they
said, would come to a dead halt.
But Tom fooled 'em. He has
brought twice as many anti
trust cases as any other attorney
general including the case to
should have known this from break up the Du Pont empire,
previous summers. But there is one of the toughest ever to come
nothing more unwise than a out f the justice department,
stubborn husband, so I resorted When Tom Clark was a stu
to delaying tactics. dent at the University of Texas
I got out the railroad and air- he roomed with a Jewish boy. nlained
plane timetables and left them And because his roommate Morse is bet
in a conspicuous place in the wasn't invited to join a fratern- ter known for
living room. It did no good. ity, Tom also refused to join a his skill at the
Mrs. P. wanted a date, the ex- fraternity, and did not do so type writer
Send your "Odds" questions on any subject to "The Wizard
of Odds," care of the Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
'One Man's Family' Autho
Has 20 Years to Credit
By HAL BOYLE
New York VP) Carlton E. Morse is a pleasant, balding man of
48 who bakes his own bread.
He also eats steak and potatoes for breakfast seven days a
week and be
lieves he makes
the best apple
pie in America.
"It's an ap
ple pie with
pears in it
and a little dash
of rum," he ex
act date, the hour, the name of until after his roommate had however, than his skill with the sary."
the first broadcast of the pro
gram still play their original
roles. Members of the live cast
have had a total of 22 children
during the 18 years. Morse and
gram is really an idealization
his wife, Patricia, are childless
"The program is really an
idealization of my husband's owe
family," said Mrs. Morse. "Hii
father and mother are a wonder
ful couple. They just celebrated
their golden wedding anniver-
the hotel, the time of the train's
departure. I event told her that
Bob Allen was busy and wasn't
ready yet to take over the
column. She didn't swallow
that one either.
finished college and could not skillet. Since 1929 he has turned
be embarrassed. out 20.000,000 words of radio
And when Tom Clark helped drama.
organize the Federal Bar asso-
Morse rises every morning ai
6:30 and cooks breakfast. Bj
asso- seven he is at his tvDewriter
ciation, he shocked some of his His most durable oreaawinner Re fa a swjt writer B 9;3(
he has finished his stint foi
don last night from Accra, capi
tal of the Gold Coast, where he fast pitching and take a chance
maintains a 56-room castle. To- on busted thumbs and fingers
day he told reporters: "I under- and aj"eiet d?on the oveted
, , - .. . , ,., , . award. Sounds like a scaly way
stand I can obtain health treat- to promot6 baseball interest
ment free here, and spectacles, among the youngsters. At least
too." Bonne explained he had a they were good enough to scrap
stomach ailment and had been it out all summer.
in poor health since he was op- '
erated on in 1944. The chief Out at the hobo camps they
came to the right place. Under scare up a concoction that's
the British health plan visitors called Mulligan stew. And an
as well as residents are eligible other one stirred up at the ball
for free medical care. park.
FAITH IN FUTURE LIFE
Survey Shows Belief
In Life After Death
eollpaeues hv riomsinriino thnt has been One Man s ramiiy
If you don't need a vacation Negro attorneys be admitted to JIEJLT. the
then General Vaughan does," membership. for 18 continuous years. H takes him two mornings U
was her comeback. "I'm almost Tom has been under a fire of Morse believes this is a record write the weekly program, an
beginning to feel sorry for him." criticism from his old friends in jor this type 0f dramatic serial, his mythical family has growi
So this is to announce that Texas for championing civil lib- e program tells the trials, s0 large he needs a chart now
having reached the end of ray erties. But he has never flinch- tribulations, and victories of an to keep the relations straight,
domestic rope, this will be the ed either as an enforcement American family Henry Bar- His listeners take the Bar
last column to be foisted on a officer or as an educator for ,.,r rPtird stockbroker, his hour family very seriously.
not ana neipiess puoiic unui uivii uuerues. ms ireeaom
September. train, bringing the declaration
The best reporter in Washing- of independence and other prico-
ton, Bob Allen, has been kind less papers to the American
enough to take over until then, people, will go down in history
as one of the most constructive
Before I close the season's moves ever made to educate the
score, however, there are a nation on civil liberties.
couple of points I would like to Ana tew people wilt ever tive characters, and I'm in the since then he has kept hii
set straight. If anything should know how long and hard he third generation of the family." characters alive and talking
nappen to me 1 wouia not want wornea to organize mat train. He is proud that six ot the Thev grow older as ordinan
wife, Fanny, and their off- "iour years ago I killed os
spring. It has gone on so long one of the characters in an aut
it makes "Abie's Irish Rose" and accident," Morse said, ''sinc
"Oklahoma" seem like one- death must come to every fam-
night stand tent shows. ny. But hundreds of peopI
"When I started there were wrote in and protested. Som
only seven characters," said said they would never listen t
Morse. "Now there are 18 ac- the program again.
not, seven of every 10 Minne-
of life after death.
a state-wide survey by the Min-
Minneapolis (U.B Scientific or
sotans believe there is some form
A United Press report inspired
neapolis Tribune Minnesota poll.
The report described attempts by Duke university to establish
a scientific basis for a soul that
lives on.
benevolence, nearness to God
a thrilling feeling."
More than three-fourths of
those believing in a soul also
believe people will be rewarded
or punished according to the life
they lead on earth. Sixteen per
cent say it isn't so and seven per
cent have no opinion.
In Durham, N.C., a Duke uni
versity psychologist, Dr. J. B.
Rhine, points to evidence which
"strongly favors the possibility
that there is something about
human personality" which
might survive after death.
Some 70 per cent of those
polled in Minnesota say they be
lieve the soul docs live on; 21
per cent indicate disbelief; and
nine per cent have no opinion.
Ideas of just what life after
death might be are predomin
antly pleasant, with explana
tions such as:
"It's peaceful no pain, no
jealousy, no worries"; "A place
of perfect cleanliness and beau
ty"; "Your soul goes to Purga
tory and then to Heaven"; "It
would be akin to a feeling of
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Chiang's Blockade Forces
Reds to Russian Trade
By JAMES. D. WHITE
(Stltutltlltlni for DfWIll Mc Ki-lillr, AP Foiflsn Nfr Antlnl)
Chiang Kai-Shek's strategic device for blockading Red Chinese
ports is working.
That is, it is not winning the civil war or preventing its loss,
for free China is crumbling
industrial and consumer goods
which China needs to rebuild.
But since the blockade by sea
and air went into effect after
the fall of Shanghai, shipping
the wrong impression to prevail
about certain people.
For instance, I have been
pretty rough on some of the
White House hangers-on who
influence President Truman.
But while I deplore the choice
of these White House cronies, I
continue to applaud most of
Truman's legislative program.
The president is sincere, hon
est, diligent, sometimes vindic
tive, frequently impulsive, and
not always efficient. But his
tory will show that 90 per cent
of the time he has been fighting
for the little fellow and that's
a lot more than can be said of
some presidents.
The great tragedy is that he
harms his own program and the
common folks he is trying to
help by his stubborn loyalty to
certain cronies.
(Copyright, 1949) seven actors who appeared on people do, and one of his big-
.-. Best problems came when all hii
Harmony in the Rush Hour
Chicago VP) Lines of automobiles were snarled In a rush
hour jam at the edge of the loop. Impatient drivers kept blow
ing their horns.
The traffic cop at the corner was almost but not quite at
wit's end. He blew his whistle, raised his hands a la Toscanini
and bellowed above the din:
"Let's try it again. All together now in the key of C."
characters were married.
"There was a little slum
there," he admitted, "until th
children grew up, and createj
some new love interest.
"My wife is the best critic o)
my writing. She can tell whei
I'm off the track better thai
anybody."
COLD FACTS ON NEW EXPORT
Glacial Ice Fascinates
By Its 'Lasting' Quality
Juneau, Alaska (U.R) Juneau's new industry is climbing as high
as a mastodon's eye
"Million-year-old" glacier ice is being exported. It takes time
for the stuff to melt in highballs.
The cold facts are that several years ago a chunk, chipped from
Alaska's Mendenhall glacier,
steadily.
But, by cutting the Rods off
from normal foreign trade via
the sea, Chiang is driving them
more firmly into the arms of
Soviet Russia than ever before.
Some time ago I wrote a
column about the differences
between President Truman and
ex-Secretary of State Byrnes in
which I reported that Mr. Tru
man had become irked at Mr
Byrnes just a week or so before
he resigned, and that Byrnes'
resignation, which he himself
had planned for some time, had
been hastened by that irritation.
Mr. Byrnes has now written limbs over huge
me that the latter part of this publicity purposes,
column was incorrect and that
Mr. Truman was not irked. I
regret this error, and am glad
to make the correction.
I should like further to repeat
what I have written before, that
In his spare time Morse col
lects old silver and vintagi
wines. Food is his'hobby. Wher
he and his wife came here t
prepare "One Man's Family" foi
television presentation this fall
they brought along their owi
pots and pans.
Morse has two bottles of 180!
Napoleon brandy in his wes'
coast home. He doesn't know
iust what to do with the bottles
AlocVane 4V.a ina KAnn,,a .... . . - -
fWn tn a lars New York .. " wnicn cost $iou apiece.
CKv cocktail Dartv " "as Deen lomPresseQ lor 50 "I keep them in & safe," h(
"l ... many centuries, has less air in said. "Maybe if there's an oc-
Its snow-melting quality was it and therefore doesn't melt so casion big enough I'd like t
heralded from coast to coast fast. open one to celebrate. But thi
Since, tons of it have been used To prove itj a 108.ton chunk other one I don't think I'd evei
from San Francisco to Holly- was put on display alongside a want to open."
wood and down the eastern sea- pjece of ordinary commercial "But they're evaporating,'
Doard- ice, the same weight. The com- smiled Mrs. Morse.
Some of it has been shipped mercial hunk of ice melted in "Yes," sighed her. husbandJ
to warm Hawaii, where hula 56 hours, the glacier ice taking "About two teaspoonsful everj '
girls were asked to drape their 65 hours and three minutes. ten years."
chunks for
Pieces of the glacier ice have
been freighted down from here
to the States for door prizes and
gags.
It's no novelty here. They've
been using it for years at local
Tho nrni nr rmrr,,-! iroH has been greatly curtailed. Fac-
betwren Red China and the west torics laeked raw materials. The
is fading jobless increased. The current
slipped.
With Shanghai dying on their The Reds realized what white
hands as a great port, the Reds elephants they had fallen heir
are planning an organized evac- to in places like Shanghai and
nation of the city's surplus pop- Tientsin. Without a large vol-
ulation and plan to reduce it ume of foreign trade they mean
eventually to about half its pros- nothing but trouble,
ent swollen population of six
million people. This has forced a drastic shift
The Reds could be expected to in the Reds' economic policy,
align themselves politically with It appears to have speeded up
Moscow, but economically the their political polarization. At
cards were stacked at first in first their idea seemed to be to
favor of considerable trade with buy abroad from anyone that
the west. This trade, everyone would treat them on what they
felt sure, would be largely on considered equal terms.
Red terms, but still was alluring Now the talk is of getting
enough that many foreign busi- along on what China can pro-
nessmen planned to stay on and riuce herself, plus what Soviet
give it a whirl. Russia can supply.
The fact was and still is that This greatly limits the pros
Soviet Russia cannot be expect- pect for business of any kind in
d to supply the vast range of China, and meant hard time.
in my opinion Jimmie Byrnes bars despite "ice worms." The
resigned just when he was strik- tall story is the favorite of
ing his real stride as a great sourdoughs whenever they meet
secretary of state. up with a chichako.
Shore Patrol Has No Room
For Dogs, Massey Learns
Seattle () Seaman Sam Massey was determined to get his
Alaskan dog out of the canine "brig."
He did.
But he landed in the brig himself. The dog landed back in
the city pound.
The navy man told police he had brought the half-husky,
half-collie from Alaska. He left it with a friend here because
he was heading for his Brooklyn, N. Y., home on a 60-day
leave.
The friend abandoned Happy (that's the dog's name). The
humane society picked up the pooch and put him in the
pound. Massey was unhappy.
Police picked him up after the night watchman's wife re
ported seeing him inside the pound, boosting Happy onto a
roof and over the lenre.
"I love that dog and the dog loves me," Massey told officers.
The night watchman's wife agreed that both of them acted
that way.
But they were parted again today. Navy officials reported
Massey was in custody of the shore patrol, which doesn't have
accommodations for dogs.
Arden
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