82 Nl f 4 .-. . ,1 BM ' f 1 Ha. ... ro !i i i l n i r t . " J. .11 Capital A 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 poper and also news published therein. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Carrier: Weekly, 25c; Monthly, S1.00: One Tear, S12.00. By Mail in Oregon: Monthly, 75c; 6 Mos.. $4.00: One Year, S8.00. TJ. S. Outside Oregon: Monthly. $1.00; 6 Mos.. $6.00; Year, $12. 4 Salem. Oregon, Thursday. August 18, 1949 BY BEQK Parental Problems West Coast Airline's Visit West Coast Airlines officials meet with Salem represen tatives Thursday evening to discuss the possibility of the feeder-line serving Oregon's capital. In a way, the meeting poses a problem. The Civil Aero nautics Board has already issued a show-cause order why West Coast Airlines should not be substituted for the ex isting United Airlines service here. And Salem has al ready announced its intention of fighting to keep a United station at McNary field. Whether or not this amounts to a problem depends on the future of air transportation at Salem. The city has no intention of changing its position on United Airlines service. Salem needs to keep its connec tion with the Mainliner's transcontinental route. The size (second in Oregon) and growing importance of the capital demands nothing but the best kind of a complete air con nection here. To limit the city to a feeder-line connection only, as the CAB would, is to restrict the activity of Salem to a feeder line position. This in no way reflects on West Coast Air lines, since all reports on that particular company are to its credit. But the scope of the service, which heretofore has not included air freight, must be limited to the extent of the airline itself. Even though West Coast intends to incorporate air freight service in its program or already has done so the connections can still only be feeder-line connections. The connection that United already offers, on the other hand, is transcontinental. West Coast is welcome to present its case to the city. But at the same time, the airline should realize the import ance Salem places on the existing United connection. That importance is so great as to make it unwise for the city to permit the CAB to cut-off the Mainliner service. That is why Salem is fighting the show-cause order. So that the meeting should not cause any uneasiness, those facts should be understood from the start. If West Coast Airlines has in mind serving Salem in addition to United, that is another matter. Our Farm Support Folly The beauties of farm support prices are shown in the federal potato control program. The Agricultural depart ment has just revealed that it cost the government in one county alone $64 millions to buy up potatoes of the 1948 crop. The government spent this amount buying up potatoes produced in Aroostook county, Me., one of the nation's principal potato-producing .areas. That was nearly one third of the total $199,000,000 which the government spent buying up surpluses in the 1948 potato crop. If this thing keeps up, Maine ought to vote democratic. Actually it cost the government and the taxpayers more than that. When the cost of disposing of the pota toes was added in, the total cost of the 1948 potato crop support program was boosted to $224 million. The government had to buy up about one-fourth of last year's potato crop under a congressional directive to main tain producer prices of 90 per cent of parity. And potato growers evidently planted record acreage because profits were assured. Record crops of all kinds seem assured this year corn, 3 billion bushels, plus a huge wheat crop and abundant farm products, but this doesn't mean any lower food prices for consumers, for support prices keep up prices by govern ment purchases of surplus at taxpayers' expense and as in potatoes the surplus is wasted in destruction. And a large portion of the heavy taxation goes into encouraging the raising of surpluses, for as soon as prices drop, the government starts buying to keep them up. Our farm panacea is idiotic, economically unsound and purely political and the public is mulcted by both prices and confiscatory taxes. And the Brannon plan is even worse. Housing Decontrol Necessary President Truman blames the lifting of rental controls in areas still having them on congress' failure to provide sufficient appropriations to enforce the rent control law. Every compulsory regulative law requires an army of en forcement officers and the expenditures of tax money re quired by the bureaucracy in enforcing regimentation fre quently exceeds the benefits resulting, which has been demonstrated in rental control, which has been honey combed by favoritism and evasion, and has largely been a lopsided farce. Rental controls, like other arbitrary controls, are part and parcel of the police state. Justifiable perhaps in war time and emergency periods. It is time the economic law of supply and demand be given a chance to solve the rental problem, especially since the building boom is still mush rooming all over the country and sufficient rental housing exists or soon will. In view of the fact that federal costs in time of peace will exceed revenues by $5 billion this fiscal year, and that the government is now on a deficit spending basis, economy is essential, especially with a world record debt of $252 billion already existing. There is no better place to start the economizing than in these surplus unnecessary federal bureaus. As it is, congress has only cut the housing budget from $26 million to $17.5 million so why the presidential squawk? Ontario Feuds over Whistle Ontario, Ore., Aug. 18 iPi Rainwater Jonrs was blowing the town's whistle again today, but he wasn't sure tor how long. The whistle, installed on Jones' laundry and traditional in Ontario as the dinner signal, has blown up two months of controversy here. Albert Fuchs, who lives near the laundry, said It "Jarred his nerves." He and 78 other residents petitioned the city council to silence the thing. But other residents contended they loved the whistle. Moreover, said some, their children wouldn't come home to dinner unless they heard it. The council decided It could blow. At that point someone took matters Into his own hands nd stole the thing. The city was silent for a week until Rainwater Jonrs got another whistle and Installed it. i WELL..1 GUESS THAT3 J 2WM I EVERYTHING HE ORDERED. ) y. J , eH!S V. IT OUGHT TO HOLD HIM M f N ! I FOR AWHILE . PHEW.. IT &3? i-fcr? I f t 'M, I WOULD BE LOT5 EASIER ) taak.Tjsiar WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND California Demos in Stew Over Governor Nomination .(Ed. Note While Drew Pearson is on vacation, the Wash ington Merry-Go-Round is being written by his old partner, Robert S. Allen). by GUILD Wizard of Odds By ROBERT S.ALLEN Washington California's muddled democratic scramble for governor is getting more hectic by the hour although the pri mary is still a year off. The air is blue with tales of intrigues and secret deals among the pack of hot-eyed aspirants. At least a half-dozen are in the field, led by James Roose- their indignation at Revercomb velt, eldest son of the late pre- in no uncertain terms." sident, and George Luckey, mil- ..Did the presbyterians ex lionaire cattleman, openhanded plain why they considered it 1948 Truman supporter, and bit- discriminatory?" demanded Me ter foe of young Roosevelt. Carran. LucKey press agents claim ne has White House backing. "They didn't have to explain Spokesmen of the president em- """"" " """"" . J". " phatically say he is keeping - v,ijr SIPS FOR SUPPER Reward By DON UPJOHN Our column has Just received a signal honor by receipt of a large, impressive engraved certificate in St. Patrick's day emer ald advising that it's been made a member of the Keep Oregon Green strict hands-off this and all oth er state contests. James Roosevelt is saying he has AFL and other labor sup port. Luckey and other candi dates counter that California la bor is split on a choice. Curious aspect of the feverish scramble is that much of the un- pers, had explained the discri minatory features in no uncer tain terms. This unfair law was a major issue in my campaign and I intend to see to it that it is changed." ' Sen. Scott Lucas, 111., demo cratic floor leader, broke in with a conciliatory question. Pat, you have a bill on this r5yi? UNHEALTHV LUN6 CONDITIONS. BY 1 At uncT cvcu nnrtc nrtri no ARE MORE THAN 1,000,000 Sv A r 9ls' TO I (you outer uy m C6 1 Vmi di IziwZ-- OHTHAr,MWMtWtl,WUISVIU.) VsjV I) sjr" O & W , W0MEN,BY5T04, HAVE MORE UNPLEASANT DREAMS THAN MEN. Send your "Odds" questions on any subject to "The Wizard of Odds," care of the Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon. associa tion for 1 9 4 9, same also be ing signed b y Douglas McKay, governor. W e imagine Al Wiesendang e r , executive s e c -retary for said association, i s behind this move at least nice little note a job last week that I had held for 25 years. Two sons in the army can't help. My home has been foreclosed and my furni ture taken by a mortgage hold er. And now you want me to pay $31 in back taxes." German, British Rivalry Seen as Test of Systems Appropos the findings of Fred Zimmerman and Doc Bellinger at their mountain hideout that Do, enjoho there s an oversupply of fir rnnps this vpar which nrpsaeps from him is attacnea paying a hard wjnter, Doc Bill Thomp tribute to the signal service SOIli sage 0 Riverdale, adds a we're supposed to have perform- clincher by informing that when ed for said organization. This the folks there returned from is all mighty nice and is sure a week-end at the beach they appreciated but we've been f0Und the swallows had gone, racking our vaccuum to remem- leaving about two weeks earli ber just what we've done to keep er than last vear when they letf Oregon green during the past the 27th or 28th of August. This, year and finally have probably ne opines, leads to the belief of come up with the answer. Sec- an early winter ahead. Or, it retary Al last year sent us a -could be as our own added mighty nice ash tray with t h e thought, that when the Thomp insignia of his order printed sons were at the beach and did thereon and ever since its re- not feed the swallows for a few ceipt we've been extra careful days they decided to hike out in using it to see that the ashes for more hospitable quarters, were knocked off on the floor y he swaIlow got his name but that the.' sparks were kept ' . ... , . carefully in the tray and it because he likes to swallow and could be we've saved untold when the swallowing gets low millions of board feet of timber he hikes to some more fecundl by such meticulousness. At any ous spot. rate we hope so and will cherish ' the memento of a long season irresistible 01 enjoyment Knotting on aaues Rnhiprt " hp catH "Whal wn,,lH riprrnver inckevintf centers in j im n j rr . Washington. Luckey has made a Grath, (D-RI), moves to dis- MacKENZIE'S COLUMN iiumu i.uu-m.ii charge the committee and report the capital, and most of the oth- out your own bill?" er candidates, or their agents, ? will Oppose jj have made treks. All filter a con- ..r ca.t get it ' out Scott stant stream of rumors and tips broke in McGrath, "unless Pat eastward. j. willine to coonerate " Latest to reach democratic na- Lucas made still another ap- By DeWlTT MoeKENZIE tional headquarters is the fol- peai to McCarran to allow action ' (JFI F" ir Mount lpwing: on the measure. He refused to This column yesterday expressed the view that the outcome A secret conference recently make any concessions. of the parliamentary elections for a new government in western took place between James Roo- "What will you do if the re- Germany constitutes a rebirth of that nation a beginning of its seven atm ucuigc i.n.nai.1, iuij publicans take the initiative and revival as a poobah of California old age- move to discharge this commit- power, pension promoters. Purpose of tee?" asked Neely. If we accept the meeting was to consider a "rU do plenty," retorted Mc- that as a valid Roosevelt-McLain ticket; the Carran. "If thpv ia,-i nrpmise. it nn former for governor, the latter ra keep them here until Christ- ens up startling for lieutenant governor. Cement mas. j wiu not stand for possibilities, for the alliance would be Mc- shoving around." Foremost is Lain's "delivery" of his 250,000 That ended the meeting. Lat- the strong prob pension followers and Roose- er, Neely told Vice President ability that wc velt's public support of their Barkley: "The wraps are off shall see devel pension plan, on which the state now. i am not goinB t tand for opment of a fi For example, the London Daily Express, after referring to charges of German abuse of the allied occupation powers, says bluntly: "Before it is too late the Brit ish should get tough with the Germans who have not given up the hope of working our humili ation and ruin. Great Britain's authority must be restored and this will occur only when she ballots in a special election this McCarran's hluff T m oio t erce rivalry be- November. do everything in my power to tween Germany DeWI" "i js seen to be strong ln her own get that bill out of his commit- and England for leadership of right." neu-nui nujier un uus nui tee. I will work with the repub- western Europe. Britain aireaay tale is that one of the prime ijcans or anyone else to do that " seems t0 De taking note of this movers of this alleged deal is icopyriiht 19491 ' likelihood. Arthur Samish, massive "king" fNfTiacSs popuia- ATMOSPHERE NOT LIKE STATE PEN tion has increased so enormous ly in recent years that the state is certain of a minimum of seven new congressional seats in the 1950 reapportionment. It now has 23. Note 2: Republican insiders say the party will ditch embat tled Attorney General Frederick Napoleon Howser next year. He insists he will run again. Prison Farm East of City Raises Prize Products The Daily Mail says: "Ger man nationalism still lives and the influence of the Nazis is still great. The Western Allies must be more careful than ever to keep a watchful eye on fu ture trends. "Mr. Churchill's raising the question of German admission to the council of Europe is of great importance. The allies must keep Germany harmless, but she should be inside the Western Union because if al lowed to stand alone, she might at, if not in, Al's gift. Philadelphia Bootblack Jim Riley believes it pays to ad vertise in a big way. A sign on his sidewalk stand read: "Pedal chard an dw The Last Straw St. Louis. Aug. 18 (U.B Inter national revenue collector James habiliments artistically lubricat P. Finnigan was trying today ed nd illuminated with an am to figure out an answer to a man bidextrous facility for the in who wrote: "My wife just died, finitesimal remuneration of 15 I broke my leg yesterday. I lost cents." POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Get Up, Rover! Stop Playing Dead! Do Something By ED CREAGH (Substituting for columnist Hal Bo;!el New York, Aug. 18 W These may be dog days, but the dogs are dogging it. There hasn't been a grade A, all-dolled-up-with-pictures dog story in the pa pers since Hec SECRET DOCUMENT Lieut. Gen. Lawton Collins was very insistent on clearing cnickens; green nia ucan wiicii ,iiuiugi piicis peppers and swarmed in after his elevation w h i t e Pekin to army chief of staff. They ducks, were curious about this caution y 0 u shouldj and Collins grinningly explain- see this phe- edl nnmpnil farm f "It's because I got burnt once, then hope you' llf 1 was very eniuarrassea Dy some never have to pictures made at my headquar- take over a ters in the ETO when the Ger- s h a r e of its mans surrendered. I was waiting rhnrpt It is the for two big-shot Kraut generals . state Prison Farm, more formal By WILLIAM WARREN You should see the beautiful, lush farm of 1,600 acres out Turner road east of Salem. You should see the prize produce, poultry and livestock, look- either enter the Russian sphere ing like a preview of the State Fair: Corn, carrots and cattle; or make a third attempt to dom oyster plant, parsnips and porkers; potatoes, tomatoes and inate her neighbors." turkeys; Swiss losis hospitals and wards. Already Germany, which be- William Warrta Across the way is the sanitary fore the war was the economic cream house, where the milk is keystone of Central Europe, is pasteurized and cooled, and the making remarkable strides to cream is separated. Fine-look- ward recovery, ing work horses idle along the She was a great industrial rolling hills near the barns, their nation and bids fair to be one ( day's toil ended. again in due course, despite the , - ripnaltips imnnopri nn W hv lha Back to the annex building, Allies because of her aggression, where we greet Superintend- Tnus 'he prospective struggle ent Kaiser, then jump into his wlU lle between two industrial car for a cruise of the acres. Powers. Here the similarity to be brought in and was writ- j known as the Oregon State ofthL in truck EardenT-cab now are the contest wiI1 be in ing a letter to my wife. I had poni,pntiarv Annex. ?f A"6"1 truckL gardens-7ca effect between a Socialist state if ,ritn ho- hnt hp im. ,1, t age, green peppers, carrots, WUllC H Ullltiiikc - c npnHinef nffair whon iho ti,n . i i iui. t 13 , B .... ..... ...w mospnere aooui una m-cmt ... jn.iduis were uiuuglll ill. effect between a Socialist state and a Capitalist state. The New Germany stands po litically for "free enterprise," f .1 tor was a pup. And this (you , should pardon the expression) is a doggone shame. When I w a s breaking into the newspaper business, short ly after the Bat tie of Chicka- mauga, a wise if watery-eyed up by the Chinese Reds. old city editor told me: Then there was Kiki. He went "Bub, if you want people to the Amethyst cat one better by read what you write, remember Retting bottled up himself, ti,:.. Came in on the liner Atlantic fcd Crraih Atlantic swimmer. And it was good to know that one pup, in these decadent days, still had some get-up-and-go. Cats, now they're perform ing all over the place. First there was a mouser aboard the British warship Amethyst. He got a real, hon-cst-to-George military decora tion for holding the rats at bay while the Amethyst was bottled wiss chard, tomatoes, parsnips. ..n trnm Tnp nmie riiaun uiuu.. . , , , , .tiitaui mi nee piiipnirise. "I left the letter lying on my , the farm are only ciover i ir pasture, sixty acres whereas Britain , thermiri't desk while the photographers trusties. The feeling is more " .nd acres o her "ke-or-break" peri- took pictures, and I'll be darned informal, more hopeful. The of ensifaEe com for the cattle ment in scialit government, if one of the pictures that was inmates eat with knives and aIso for fh t cattle and horses' f course' both reSimes mi6ht published didn't show clearly forks, as well as the spoons Ior e, an th"e: change in new elections, but my letter and what I had writ- which are the only implements acres vleWlng 1,000 tons of that's the present situation. , ten to my wife." in the mess hall at the big house. Fq cucumber for . So those who are tryin8 to Guards eat in the same room, -4". i lr lZ iie"n out which is heUeTS- NAVY LEAGUE get tne same good food, well b bard and cialism or Capitalism-will have The truculently anti-air force cooked and well served. 1Q of bee A'd morfi Bo' a concrete demonstration for Navy League is due for a rough Bren onions. All this eoes to 5-U'la"cJ " Probobly won t of the state pris- . Z,"t!L " ' 1 going-over when the B-36 probe Everett Kaiser, very pleasant feed the men resumes next week. Rep. James and a gent who thoroughly 0n. Some of the farm's oroduce knows his larming, is tne su- particularly milk also goes penntenaeni oi tne pnu - to other state institutions, in- Van Zandt, (R-Pa), whose char ges precipitated the investiga Britain achieved her greatest tion, is on close terms with the nex. The inmates call him eluding the TB hospitals ' and strenS'h as a Capitalist nation, i-cipuiiii in me -boss in a way tnat oeniy m- scnools for the deaf and blind. . . " out" sne dicates he has their regard And don't forget the two acres twlce faced Germany in world The guards here are a bit of oyster plant so called be- was" more informal, for they're deal- cause they make a soup that N.w she " ln Process of int. with the men on good be- tastes just like oyster soud. - paicmai pomicai league. He is navy reserve. Irate air force insiders are putting the finger on the league as the author of the anonymous letter, denouncing B-36 procure- i,av The farm is irrigated by Mill structure which aims at provid- "One weather story equals reeking of strong drink, walk- two society divorces, and one in w.lth unsteady dignity, hic- good dog story will beat any coughing as he purred, weather storv that ever came "Kk' i'lst loves cocktails," I, tk. liv." confided his proprietor, Mrs. down the pike. Winifred Hunter of the U.S. This worthy man later died of embassy at Madrid. "He'll go a pickled liver, but his advice or a Manhattan, a Martini, still seems sound to me. anvlhing., Carries it like a The only trouble is, the dogs gentlemalli t0o he's never had aren't cooperating. but one hangover." ment, that created a furor on the rnnnpr the 14-vear-old cock- Creek, which flows through the 'lng se.c.ur)'y. for the individual : j . i. i ' . ... . ... frnm hirth tn rfn. 1, unfiling uay ui me investigation. er spaniel. is friend alike ot Willamette university c Conspicuously absent at the jnmates and guards, and the pet and into the Willamette. neaiings is itup. .lames v aas- 0f all of them. Cats got into the news. So do elephants and monkeys. Even fish are splashing their way into the headlines, to say nothing of some publicity - hungry birds that have been loitering hope fully around newspapermen's hangouts. But dogs? Except for Popo, the wire haired terrier, they've turned as camera-shy as a movie blonde with two black eyes. You remember Popo. He showed up only last Sunday, swimming bravely in the general direction of Ireland. He was nine miles off the main coast when a tuna fishing boat haul ed him aboard, pretty well poohed. Popo's story was that he had fallen off a yacht, but nobody believed him. Obviously, he was out for glory as a trans- Yes, all the beasts are getting into the act. There's Mickey, the New York monkey that wipes the dishes after every meal. Just like a husband. Mickey also hangs out the window and gives pretty girls a big hello. Just like a Well, of course, there was Grady, the cow that got caught in the silo. And Bimbo, the midget elephant that died of pneumonia, poor little guy. And Booger, the Rhode Island Red that hangs around the Hialeah bar in Miami, mooching ciga retts. And there was that fish up at Hydaburg, Alaska, that was found to have a bottle of sherry unopened in its stomach. And Fish stories? Not me I'm a dog story man, myself. Can I help it If the dogs have all abdicated? ffftm Hiptt. In Jnn,U IT- amn,,o " u ui iw UCttlll. C LKK Cll- kihi' i nui a part ot tne program. worth, (R-NY) His son-in-law First a quick ,ook at the Three of the hills here on the Brita?n nnfSe ",t- is Stuart Symington, secretary main annex building, which was farm are aptlv named - hog f, ' m,t Z ec,on.oml? "IS1S 0f"r- ... e old Boys State Training hill, chicken hill and turkey However as I ee it therpTj School before that institution hill. iit.il i?, .-f . I a DISPLACED PERSONS movcd to Woodburn in 1930. The how raised are some- I's ,? "S tlflcatlon r such an Neither side minced words ln Here most of the trusties sleep thing to see. About 950 hogs ih B,.ir. rfiffi ti the closed-door meeting of the and take their meals. on their hill. Some 15 are resJult of strait tS ' tZ "world senate immigration subcommit- It is on Annex Hill command- butchered weekly, averaging 1A 0 tee when Senator Pat McCar- ing a breath-taking view of Sa- 4.500 pounds of pork for hungry , crped Thl sL? v ,P . ran, (D-Nev). refused to budge lem and the Willamette valley inmates. There's a separate pig witpH in Jut Soclahsts in on his blockade of the house- to the west and the Cascades to house for the mamas and their Thpppfnr. thl .,- . i passed bill to liberalize the the east. The grounds are beau- young 'uns. You see the little ish SoPillim fit i y - . "anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic" tifuuy kept-by a lifer trusty fellows avidly enjoying a snack pow) f 1 have t rT. who is a wizard at gardening, while mother just about dozes bv ,he ,.... in wMnh it T..i. The sleeping quarters are like little piggies doing their darnd- Z,i a"n!f i"h'?.hi!t.d.?.a1.! dormitories except for est to build themselves into pork. i ,t,iu '... " uf J, Zz !dows. This On turkev hill are snmp 5nn , VC ""nates tne Senator Revercomb (1948 West is the home for the time being turkeys each year, for institu- ale that Z" fnT.TIi Virginia nnnktm i...h.m . mn , i m le ln"t seems to be boiling up displaced persons law. "Charges that this act is dis criminatory are hokum, McCar- laree ran snapped. "I worked with the bars over the windows. This feasts at Thanksgiving, with i.. n Christmas and New Year. - '"."L" Virginia republican lame-duck) f a few more than 100 indivi- tion on this act when it was drafted, duals. and 1 know that the charges are ... 0n cnicken hill some 4.000 sional duck dinner for the in untrue." Charlie Daugherty, the old- young are hatched each year, mates. Sen. Matt Neely, (D), who de- time guard, takes us down the The farm keeps 3,500 laying It's a beautiful place, this feated Revercomb, took up the Hill to two well-built dairy hens in constant production prison annex with nothing to challenge. barns. Each has two large silos, most of them white leghorns Indicate the nature of it except "Revercomb and I are both It's milking time. In one barn They produce 100 to 120 dozen the bars on the dormitory win Presbyterians," he said. "I had are the Holsteins, yielding their eggs a day. A chart is kept on dows. Nothing to hold the the strongest support of the generous output to the milking each laying hen. and when her trusties here but their con Presbyterians because they con- machines. In the other barn production falls below the econ- sciences and the knowledge sidered this bill discriminatory, are the Guernseys and the Jer- omic level, she's earmarked for that if they walk over the hill The Presbytery of northern West seys, being milked to soft music fricassee. they will swap all this for soli Virginia, last summer, took the coming from a radio at the far Down hill, in the duck pond tary confinement in the bull pen extraordinary action of denoun- end of the barn. Their milk is are mostly white Pekins, with at the big house, once they are cing the Revercomb-McCarran richer in butterfat. and Is des- some mallards. A total of about recaptured as they virtually act as prejudiced and expressed tincd largely for the Tubercu- 800 a year go in for an occa- always are. I. r