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From Little Acorns
4
Salem, Oregon, Friday, August 12, 1949
Contrast of Two Officers
President Truman is not consistent in the caliber of men
he selects for top jobs.
In one instance, for example, he would pick a man like
Major Harry Vaughan to be his military aide. Vaughan
has been so maligned for his conduct at the side of the pres
ident that Truman shows appalling judgment by keeping
his aide around.
At the same time, however, the president makes as good
a selection as would be possible in picking General Omar
Bradley to head up the joint chiefs of staff.
Bradley was known during the recent war as "the G.I.'s
general." He rightly earned that title. It was given in
consideration of his concern for the foot soldier, the aver
age man in the ranks. He was credited with saving lives
at the expense of wasting weapons.
Bradley doesn't fit the description of a blustering brass
hat. He is far from that. Despite the new rank which
would make him the highest rated military officer of any
of the services in the nation, he can be counted on to
wear his rank well.
The words of a man, as well as his actions, help to in
dicate his thoughts and intentions. Bradley's statements
speak well for the man. He is no war-monger.
For instance:
"Our only certainty of survival in this atomic world is not to
sit with a sword in hand but to eliminate war, and the causes
of war.
"Far more important than the armed forces in keeping the
peace is the intelligence and realism that the American people
must apply to their new world role. We cannot ignore, how
ever, the fact that all nations have not yet discarded force, that
wars are not impossible any more than they are inevitable."
Bradley's reason for the forces under his new command
could probably be found in this recent statement:
"Together with their consuming passion for peace, together
with their effort to seek settlement of world disputes through
justice rather than force the American people are compelled
to cling to armed power as a deterrent to peace and a less plaus
ible conviction in justice."
At another time, he gave this warning to his country
men: "The American people can never take refuge behind their
armed forces with the assurance that they have purchased peace
with power. Peace is not for sale to the people who buy the
heaviest guns."
I
Selection of General Bradley should be gratifying to
all Americans. Truman's choice of him deserves the high
est praise at the same time that the president's keeping
of Vaughan deserves the highest condemnation.
If Truman wanted to put Vaughan in the worst possible
light, he did it unintentionally by his naming of an officer
of the caliber of Bradley to the top military job.
f WfeWft Ahe poor sap&W
doesn't realize
SIPS FOR SUPPER
The Great Day
By DON UPJOHN
Sunday is the big day that people up "the canyon" in the De-troit-Idanha
area have been waiting for, the day when the new
North Santiam highway dedication plans are to be carried out
and
Don Dpjoho
and cars
people from all FT
over the valley
will converge on .
that point. Ed
Vickers, the ma
jor d o m o for
the celebration
up the canyon,
writes us that
from all indica
tions there
should be a
bangup crowd
and that plans are going ahead
apace, a couple of paces in fact,
and a good time should be had
by all. He says that highway 222
is now like the Sunset boule
vard to the people who have
been using the old road for the
past two years. Unquestionably
the North Santiam highway is
one of the most important im
provements in the history of
this area, ranking along with
the construction of the Detroit
dam itself. If there's anything
in the import of the occasion that
should warrant a crowd, the can
yon should be full of people
come Sunday. And there's
enough natural beauty up there
to go around and plenty left
over.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Top Officials Annoyed
By Anti-U.S. Visitors
(Ed. Note While Drew Pearson is on a brief vacation, the
Washington Merry-Go-Round is being written by his old
partner, Robert S. Allen).
By ROBERtTaLLEN
Washington Philippine President Elpidio Quirino received
the customary formal amenities during his Washington visit, but
privately, top officials breathed a sigh of relief when he de
parted. Reason was a gingerly handled situation that astonished and
embarrassed them. 77 77 TTT "
Three leading rr.emt.ers of f he , three collaborators m
Quirino's party were prominent hls P"ty as due to "political
Jap collaborators and violent necessity.
U.S. denouncers. They are: Quirino is seeking re-election
Jose Yulo, chief justice of the thls year in 8 verv uncertain
Supreme Court in the Jap-creat- race:
ed puppet government. Yulo D "ls leadln8 PPnent is Jose
was personally decorated by p-Laurel, who was president of
Emperor Hirohito for outstand- the Jap puppet government De
Ing service to Japan. Yulo is ?P'te his extreme collabora ion
now a member of Quirino's rec?rd' mclud!"8 t1"?
council of state. 'n ? waJ a8amst the U.S.,
nt,,h,. Laurel was freed from prison in
supporter of the Japs and ghost an amnesty proclaimed by his
writer of virulently anti-Ameri- d friend and fellow col abo-
collaborators. Mangahas is now Man"e' Rxas
Quirino's private secretary.
Vicente Albano Pacis, lead
ing collaborationist propagand
ist who poured out a steady
stream of anti - American ful-
minations in the press and on
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
late President
Another strong candidate op
posing Quirino is Jose Avelino,
wily Tammany - type politician.
Quirino's friends say his three
collaborationist associates are
house to nav hi, resnects to his the radio. He is press chief of ' ' -
old friend Judge Grant Mur- Quirino's party. Thjs Js particu-larly true of
phy did he take this elevator? President Quirino, personally, yul0i credit,d wjtn being one
Not even a thought of it. He has an impeccaDie resistance o the smartest business-men
skipped up the three flights and, record. His wife and other mem- and best money.raisers in the
beat the decrepit old elevator bers of his family were killed Philippines. Yulo is an intimate
to the goal. Yea, Dr. Paul carries by the Japs because of his stead- of Ambassador Joaquin M. Eli
a cane, but we can't figure what last refusal to collaborate.. zalde, who has represented his
for. Friends explain the presence country in Washington off and
on for a number of years. Eli-
zalde is rated as the wealthiest
man in the Philippines.
In Filipino circles it is claim
ed one reason for Quirino's visit
was to promote a U.S. loan to
Elizalde's extensive business in
terests. Washington officials were par
ticularly annoyed at the pres
ence of the three collaboration
ists because of lack of enthusi
asm about the whole idea of
Quirino's visit.
The plan originated with his
campaign managers. They con
ceived it as a smart campaign
maneuver. The official invita
tion was extended reluctantly
and only after much wire-pulling.
hWU HAP
15 GUESTS FOR DINNER AND Jf
SEATED THEM EVERY MINUTE NIGHT AND ia-
DAY, IT WOULD TAKE 2.500.000 YEARS TO lfl
EXHAUST EVERY COMBINATION. 1 If oSaSSLS-
iOON'r thy, J.j.s., pimsuRdH.) &V sSS
" t yli'Il OPPSAHt llTOl
MORE SIZE 42 SUITS Vl
ARE BOUGHT FOR MEN THAN WSi&fesM , ,a0,V-
ANY OTHER SIZE; SIZE W&sW&MkM s-wLb '"
40 IS SECOND. miii&$$r r
Send your "Odds" questions on any subject to "The Wizard
of Odds," care of the Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
As Others Want to See Us
With Red-Eyed Vision
A-
By JAMES. D. WHITE
(fiubstltutlns for DeWItt MacKenzle, AP Foreign Newi Analyst)
Some of the giddier ideas abroad about America are being
hopped up by communist propagandists.
Samples: A recent Moscow cartoon shows an American foot
ball game so violent that the
Palmei
Two Vets to Tour Nation
On $20 and Psychology
Seattle UR Two bewhlskered hitch-hikers pedaled out of
Seattle Wednesday on their bicycles to tour the nation on
$20 and applied psychology."
Psychology majors George H. Adair, 21, and Thomas W.
Stcinburn, 26, admitted that their luxuriant beards were not
random experiments in his suite adornment.
"The beards attract attention and make us stand out,"
Adair explained. "People are naturally curious and we be
lieve motorists will stop to give us lifts because we have
beards,"
Adrian, a student at Seattle university, and Steinburn, study
ing at the University of Washington, said they expected to
follow a grand circuit route which would take them to the
east coast, south to Florida, back across the nation to Cali
fornia and home.
The bearded World War II veterans, each with $10 in cash,
are riding light-weight racing bicycles and are carrying sleep
ing bags. They said they would work their way on the trip,
which they expect will take from two to four months.
TANFORAN RACE-TRACK SCANDAL
Washington Catches Up
With '46 Pearson Expose
by the Columbia River Packers eatch up with newspaperrnan.s story.
But this week official Washington, three years late, is getting
Our Regards to the Referee
Astoria W) The state unem
ployment commission probably
never expected anything like
this, but it's got to decide how
long a woman should spend get
ting dressed. The case involves
Mrs. Dent Burns, who was fired
The Stratocruiser Craze
President Croil Hunter of the Northwest Airlines, de
clared at Portland as he embarked on the first of his com
pany's Boeinvr stratocruisers, that the Northwest would
like to move its maintenance shops and its general offices
from Minneapolis to Portland, an industry employing more
than 1000 persons, but there are many obstacles. The
chief is that the CAA will not permit the stratocruiser to
operate commercially from Portland until its 5400-foot
runways are extended at least to 6100 feet.
This is the problem that every airport is confronted
with. A runway may be constructed for the largest air
plane then in existence, but by the time it is completed,
bigger and faster airliners are likely to have been built
that require still larger runways and all the other safety
requirements that go with it.
The smaller cities that try to meet the new CAA re
quirements find that they are regarded as "whistle stops"
by the mainliners, passed-up, and usually shunted-off for
"feeder" service by shuttle flights for the big cities.
The Northwest's new stratocruiser, which cuts trans
continental flight time from 14 hours to 8 hours, will land
at Seattle but not at Portland, and Portland passengers
will have to intercept the fast Boeing at Seattle, just as
Salem passengers must go to Portland to catch the UAL
DC-4's and DC-5's for transcontinental or ocean flights,
which pass up even big cities along the route.
Portland is working on an 8400-foot runway which may
enable it to become the capital for all major airlines but
by the time it is completed, there would probably be super
stratocruisers that cut flying time down much farther,
carry a couple of hundred passengers instead of 73, weigh
200 tons, and travel at 500 miles or more an hour.
That is providing the craze for speed keeps up and there
are enough travelers to pay the price. Meanwhile there
are possibilities of reversal in the speed and size craze, and
also signs of great improvement in relatively small planes,
such as the new DC-3, which provide all the luxury and
trimmings the traffic will probably justify.
Salem's 5500-foot airfield runway, that proved ample
In the flood emergency last year for superplanes, may, for
a while at least, take care of all the air traffic that will
materialize, unless of course, the CAA forces the with
drawal of the UAL and makes the city a "whistle stop," a
feeder line as well as for passengers for Poduck and way
stations and then it will be too big for the slumping nir
traffic.
' Abolish the Republican Party? ,
Lone GOP Senator Blocks Move
Washington, Aug. 12 U.PJ Democratic Leader Scott Lucas
observed, with glee, that the republican side of the senate
was empty.
He got up and pointed this out. He had an idea.
The senate, he noted, Is a body that by unanimous consent
can do almost anything. So why shouldn't the democrats who
were present abolish the republican party?
It might have worked except for Sen. Homer E. Cape
hart, a republican from Indiana, who was presiding. Grinning,
Capehart hastened to hand over the gavel to a democrat, and
took his seat.
Lucas abandoned th project.
Association cannery and went to
get jobless benefits. The can
nery had given her an hour and
a half notice to report to work.
That, said Mrs. Burns, wasn't
enough time to dress and get to
the job. Certainly it was, said
the cannery, and Mrs. Burns is
not entitled to jobless benefits.
Commission Referee Warren
luL 1.iste"ed '. !he ": Pearson got let
int.,,, a iicic. omu a uckiaiuji wuuill
be announced later.
to the bottom
of the Tanforan
race-track scan
dal in Califor
nia, first ex
posed by Drew
Pearson in
June, 1946.
At that time
ters from Call
fornia war vet-
Dr. Paul Fchlen. many years erans Pointing
FINDERS KEEPERS
Wastington state's Senators
Warren G. Magnuson, D., and
Harry Cain, R., are at bitter
loggerheads over the Tacoma
postmastership.
Tacoma is Cain's home town,
and he is demanding the ap
pointment for one of his ad
herents, William E. Patrick, for
mer army colonel. Magnuson is
just at insistently supporting
John MacMonagle, disabled vet
eran who has been acting post
master for four years.
Cain took the controversy di-
ber, 1947, when finally General " yJ Magnuson, saying, "I
Vaughan was too powerful, Pear- fought a senator had the right
son waged an unrelenting bat- ' "commend the postmaster for
tie for the enforcement of hous- hlJ?ome town? .
ing regulations set up for the , P?rhapTs s0' ln fTI fas"'
protection of veterans. retorted Magnuson, "but in this
On June 22, 1946, Pearson case there are two stnkes against
folrt nf mvd.rm.,. ;. VOU.
.Ju.-.lMO ILU.I1U-UU .
Kaiuc au viu.rc!ii kiiai lug . .
referee operates in an armored h ,,
armed wUh gunsand clubs. J?dunP in'"'
. , j dead-pan, the American press
A recent article in Rude Pra- for not telling truth about
vo," the official communist Czechoslovakia,
newspaper in Prague, Czecho- While the American press
Slovakia, depicts America as a exactly troubled by an in
place where sitting on flagpoles SMtX
is common. fect. Some of it may have done
According to AP's Prague wrong by Czechoslovakia, but
correspondent, Richard Ka- the picture could scarcely have
sischke, Rude Pravo's argument been as distorted as Rude Pra
runs like this: America is so full vo's own blow-up of past or pres
of contradictions and frustra- ent American half-truths pre
tions that one out of 30 Ameri- sented as the whole truth about
cans blows his top and climbs America,
a flagpole or does something
equally odd to get away from it We have our goofy element,
all. and I once heard a very sober
economist (a loyal republican.
"Apparently," says Rude Pra- by the way) argue seriously that
vo, "it is really hard for an av-
one of the basic liberties is the
you
else In" the process.
Maybe very few
.o iio.u ii on civ- j j ,
erage American today to keep .. .. ".y...juu
hi. tni o . f sen it you aon t nun someDoaj
them they are called pole-sit
ters sit on high poles and try
Drew Pearson
whereby Washington higher-ups
gave no support to local Cali
fornia officials who were trying
to stop Tanforan construction.
Again, on March 31, 1947,
Pearson reported that Tanfor-
is that my man was
originally recommended by the
congressman of his district and
he has strong support in Ta
coma. "The other strike is that you
a vptprlnarinn nt Sf.-ivtnn un Out that, while
visitor in Salem today. Paul is they wcre unable to et homes- an's "flouting of the government Republicans are not in control
approaching his 84th birthday L,1B i"""'io- appeared so willful that rumor ' , j V'":
but he can grip your hand so as in8 ahead with elaborate non- got around that they had an makes a big difference and that
to squeez the last drop of blood essential construction. witn somebody very high is why my man will get the ap-
out of It. And when he went up Pearson immediately got busy, up . . . Instead of punishing Polntment- , , ,
to the third floor of the court- and from June, 1946, to Decern- tanforan for their willful vio- .., nvMCk,. i.iTTiro
lations, the civilian production P.?. FIGURES
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
riminie(.nt!An --1 1
Judge Harris for an injunction """ " V r
Accuracy of the census bu-
Anybody 'Round About
Who Can Charleston?
roi ' . ' - oned by the public affairs in.
standing on the sidelines doing stll"te-. ALd'nf ?. Dr; De
nothing about Tanforan's con- yAX
tinued use of building materials 1,gV low b,y at least 600,000.
so Judge Harris moved himself 1A"de"on als0 sharPly c,hal-
icua u ,11 in c i i; c acuciut;
ment report is sharply ques-
By HAL BOYLE
New York m Junior, get papa the kneecap oil
ton's combing back.
What's the Charleston?
Why, son, the
Charle s t o n is
-the Charles-
i . ." Pearson reported.
Pearson interviewed a dozen
or more officials both in Wash-
Sawyer's contention that in
crease in unemployment is due
the granddaddy
of the jitterbug.
Back in the
mid - 1 9 2 0s,
when everybody
had to take
jhower baths be
cause the bath
tub was full of
hand-made pro- Ir
niouion gin, you
couldn't even ni bo,i
deposit money in the bank un
less vou proved you could do
into actresses.
uuiu in wasn- , ., -
ington and on the west coast ,.,i, ,-i,i , i.u.
and became convinced
that
And after that somebody in Washington had an
in with the race track. It was
a gal covers up her legs, ex
poses her bosoms like a half-
shucked corncob, and begins gnu ihnt in ih. ,. t,
new workers looking for jobs.
Anderson says the statistics don't
bear that out.
lnd""!d'ylU!i hi ""Sist- the labor1' force duHngMay-
emoting about socially signifi- foran officials were sentenced to l'n'L J'",
cant memes sne doesn't Know two to four months in nrisnn jicuh". "-
from dime store jewelry. and fined $70 000 came active job seekers this year
But to get back to the Char- Prsnn Ml'nwM ,m h Mr. .than durln8 the ame Perid
leston . . . Charleston ... a r.r.n.nmmj wnrD ima n "St year.
simple, primitive, agile move- with two columns last week, Au-
mont Vinepri enmn rfielnnna Vim ..n..t A - .I e -i-i-!i
... ut- gucab UUU O, gIVlUK QciailB 1 . i .
low the bust: which the senate investigate .. . "lJUO'"s,?r! "ul De'n?
. . , , . " laiten into consiaeration lor
various technical reasons that
Americans
to keep their perch there as long nho""y J they never
as possible. Pictures are made i u
of them and newspapers write fven4wan,t to be sP"en, much
front page stories about them. lei2 th!"k we are' . .
. ., , . , . But the communists are work-
Then,- soap, soft-drink and ing on a mean mtle qulrk in
soup manufacturers ask them to people everywhere, including
endorse their products. Holly- ourselves
wood companies offer them Thafs their prejudice about
screen tests. Political correspon- otherSi their acceptance of ev-
dents ask their opinions on the erything that supports the preju-
international situation . . ." dic(!i and their disinterest in
Rude Pravo shows it's abreast anything that might upset the
of developments by reporting prejudice.
that Chicago "used to be" fam- Any editor who ever filed
ous for its gangsters. But it says news from this country, abroad
Chicago recently announced that can tell you. The great demand
during a single year more than abroad is for the freakish in
2,000 Bibles had been stolen American life.
War-Wife's Taxi-Born Baby
Is Doing Nicely, Thank You
Seattle, Aug. 12 (U.R) A young British war wife relaxed be
side her new-born son today in Doctor's hospital and smiled
shyly when she thought of Wednesday's excitement.
"I never thought we'd cause such a stir," said Mrs. William
Eagles, who met her husband at a dance in England while ha
was serving In the air force.
Mrs. Eagles' baby, Garry John, was born In the hosnltal
lobby 12 days before he was expected.
In the race with the stork, the Eagles car ran out of gas.
"But just like in the movies, there happened to be a
taxlcab nearby which got us to the hospital In time almost,"
she laughed.
DIFFERENT KIND OF SHOW
What Goes on in Room
For 5-Percenters Hearing
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Washington, Aug. 12 Today's headline story is being watch
ed in a place about the size of a two-room apartment.
It's room 357 of the senate office building. That's where a "
senate investigating committee
is looking into the personal witness. A couple of quick shots
business of what Capitol Hill and the photogs disappeared or-
'The official unemployment
Large
"So many young people have committee has just revealed of
come in wanting to dance the ficially
Charleston that I have had to On August 4 Pearson reported ' i
iparh it In nil lit InctrnnfnrE IViat lirhun r!anAnt . "On
the Charleston. It showed you said CnarIes Columbus, dance friend, John Maragon, couldn't
wire nine director of the Fred Astaire get government building restric-
Do I mean it was a dance? studios here. tions raised to help the Tanfor-
Junior, no nance ever nit tne
country as hard as the Char- Columbus says the dance orig- er friend, James Hunt, to the
leston. ii was int. nance. mated among South Carolina nousing expediter."
If a man wasn't willing to Negroes. He can trace the se-
shimmy - shammy back and quence
forth and then risk his right down
larsm uuiic uj uiiuwing n uvci me snag. irucKin . me l.lndv ul1- rcaiauii tuuuiiuea on au- cMi-: nAn a u- j
his left femur, he was strictly hop, and jitterbugging." But it ust 5- "s he complained to his Louis johnson warmiy assured
a cad out of tune with his time, leaves him a little leg weary olhe-r PaI Lobbyist James Hunt, the foreign relations committee
' ' when he demonstrates. and a few days later Hunt ,hre is n0 m feeIing betwecn
Everybody did it. He is a veteran dancing star owed up at the housing ex- them over military meddling in
La Belle Joan Crawford himself who twinkle-footed some fedlter office. Hunt told hous- foreign poiicy
started her fame as a dramatic 25 years on Broadway. ff"als that his friends from Rhode Island democrats are
actress as a result of a fancy "There is nothing like the the Tanforan track hadn't been trvinI( , ,..., Thnmn, O
don't hold water on examina-
FLASHES
Senator Charles Tobey, R..
XT U , 1 . . J . . ,L.
,.!. T 1 i . 4.11., wcui UUC111V UU1U1K iiie
:? SVTh"n" h ilh; labor committee hearing on the
bill for federal aid in the fight
against multiple sclerosis. One
Mrs. Lou
calls the "five perecenters."
Commonly, you think of big
time stuff like this in a Holly
wood setting. A place like the
plushy senate caucus room
which has seen such persons as:
J. P. Morgan with a midget
mussing the crease in his pants.
dinarily they hang around until
the last dog is dead, as the say
ing goes.
Well, the meeting got under
way.
Since room 357 holds less than
a hundred, much less than the
-npnprnl V.n.h.n M'f lit. ' "'""'P"
:e from the Charleston the way he housing expediter Gehri widow of the basebaU
through "the varsity drag, a ed his bosom pal, Mara- star wh died f th di
ihotf piict n1 ,v. T Bon. Pearson rnntinnoH nn An. . .
priie-winning, hip Charleston Charleston for popularity," Co- ,r'aed -courteously, etc,
movement
ers was able
pendence from Independence, ens, the back porch, and stand
mo., oecause of tne same swivel ing up in rumble seats."
swing. Columbus thinks the Amer-
Later some movie critic men- lean public is more dance crazv
tloned that both girls had now than it has ever been. The
sparkling eyes. This was a sad pupils, he said, range from Elea-
discovery. nor Roosevelt, a longtime patron
It changed them from hoofers of the dance, down to gangsters.
. ---r- . iw. nifui.iiiji v-u- FinolK. T -uii:uihh, uueuilie new Licttl
na uinger nog- lumnus said. "They danced it , ,'r "fiureu, brain-truster, to re-enter the po
to get her inde- in the living rooms, the kitch- Y,aughan litical arena. He has given nc
u r-xpecmer indication ,h
d- (Co,
Something in the Stars?
Seattle 1P Astrologists mirht find somethinc here. Aur.
7, 1945, a daughter was born to Mrs. Howard M. Smith.
Aug. 7. 1947, a son was born to Mrs. Howard M. Smith.
Aug. 7, 1949, it happened again. Another son.
Bernard Baruch, the friend of caucus room, there were 30 re-
presidents, telling the lawmak- porters at the three press tables,
ers a thing or two about how we Maybe twice that many tourists
ought to run the world. A dig- besides. ,
nified toilet seat magnet catch- ' You can read in the papers
ing old what-for in a hearing on about what happened during the
surplus property deals. ' hearing. But what happend to
All of this with sound effects the air-conditioning was not re
from the radio. Klieg lights. A ported.
hundred or so newspapermen. Actually, not much happened.
Camermen galore.- But, when a small room gets
' filled with hot humanity, the
But this is a different kind of thermometer gets kicked up. At
show even though Sen. Clyde 9:30 a. m., half an hour before
Roark Hoey of North Carolina, gametime, the temperature out
the committee chairman, is one side was crowding the high 80's.
of the most colorful men in the In the little room it was a corn
country, fortable 69.
He still (even in this hot By 11:30. the red line climbed
weather) wears what passes for over the 90's which was a little
a stiff wing collar except it is warmer than it was outside. The
wingless. He wears a swallow- committee members were sipp
tail coat, usually in powder blue, ing ice water. Chairman Hoey's
and he always has a red carna- carnation had taken on that tired
tion in his buttonhole. Jook. So had he.
When he showed up, Wednes- At length he rapped a gavel
day the three picturcmen in the and adjourned the meeting.
room lined him up with Tighe Everybody went out in the halli
E. Woods, the housing expedi- took a deep breath, and felt a
ter, who was to be the chief lot cooler.
(