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by BECK
Extenuating Circumstances
4 Salem, Oregon, Thursday, September 1, 1949
Forces Still in Conflict
The ten years since World War II started have been
ten long, confused years. The span of time since that
September morning . when Hitler's troops moved in on
Poland has setm history's most terrible war holding all
of mankind in its grip for six of those ten years.
I What, hnnnpnerl durinor the terrible years of fiehtine is
in the past now. But what has happened since the fight
ing stopped in its major phases is determining the trend
of events ahead.
Realized by everyone now is the fact that the world is
! still not at peace. Stalin and Tito are shaking their armed
fists at one another in the Balkans. Greece is .still torn
by a civil war fostered by Moscow. China is still fighting
what must seem to the Chinese an endless civil war, al
though the current strife, like Greece, has the feel of the
bloody directing hand of the Soviet master rulers. Korea
asks for military aid to withstand the call to revolt issued
by Moscow's stooges in the northern section of that Asiatic
country. In Indo-China the white man is trying to hold
on with French forces to at least a piece of what once was
a fertile continent for imperialism.
In this confused aftermath of World War II, the aver
age man must shake his head in wonderment. How could
the people of the world permit themselves to lose their way
again toward some kind of stability in global affairs?
The forces in conflict today are those that have plagued
man since the most modest form of government was estab
lished: Shall man keep his dignity and freedom or shall
he surrender to the will of the state?
In token leadership of the forces for the dignity and
freedom of the Individual is the United States. In absolute
command of the forces making man a slave of the state is
the Soviet Union.
The United States has moved hesitatingly into a role
as leader of the forces of freedom and liberty. The nation
still has not realized the scope of its global responsibility
as leader of the forces of freedom and liberty. The nation
global strategy for the democracies is too evident.
The past ten years are now history. The responsibility
for the next 10 years lies with United States leadership,
Byrd on Johnson Economy Drive
The Congressional Record contains the speech of Sena
tor Harry F. Byrd (D., Va.) chairman of the joint commit
tee on reduction of non-essential federal expenditures fully
endorsing, as might be expected, the order of Defense
Secretary Johnson slashing 135,000 civil employes off the
military payroll.
Byrd declares: "It is the first honest-to-goodness effort
that has been made toward reduction in government per
sonnel during the 10 years I have been chairman of the
joint committee on reduction of nonessential federal ex
penditures. It comes after a period when the number of
federal civilian personnel for many months was increased
at the rate of 300 employes a day."
The reason for the payroll slash was the "fantastic"
situation that the armed services employed 895,462 federal
civilian employes as compared to 1,642,790 men in uni
form, a ratio of more than one civilian to two in uniform.
The reductions are "surplus and unnecessary to adequate
national defense" and "a fair and equitable adjustment
to requirements" that will save approximately $400,000,
000 annually. .
Reports of the Byrd committee have long stressed the
fact that the number of civilian employes of the federal
government could be reduced by 500,000 without impair
ment of government efficiency, and the Hoover report
details how it can be done. If other departments follow
the Johnson precedent, it can be done. Byrd concludes by
asking the cooperation of congress in the economy pro
gram in cutting out waste and inefficiency, asserting:
"It is ominous to every straight-thinking person that in this
day of high prosperity In national income we are in a period of
deficit spending. We ended fiscal year 1849 with a deficit of
nearly $2 bihion In the first 54 days of the current fiscal year
the deficit already has reached $1.7 billion, or an average of
$30 million per day, which means the federal debt already
above a quarter of a trillion dollars is Increasing every day."
Finale for the GAR
Six union veterans of the Civil War, all centenarians,
comprising all who remain alive, have closed the final en
campment of the "Grand Army of the Republic" and are
on their way home. The last act of the old northern sol
diers was a final gesture of peace to their former enemies
of the south, the five survivors of Lee's armies, the United
Confederate Veterans, who will also hold their final en
campment at Little Rock, Ark., on September 27.
In his proposal for the final message of greeting, 108-year-old
James A. Hard of Rochester, N.Y., said: "This is
one United States there's no longer a north and south
tell those boys in gray we'd like to meet with them just
once but we're too old to travel." And at their final camp
fire the "boys in blue" sat with bowed heads as a bugler
sounded taps for their departed comrades.
Indianapolis was the site of the last as well as the first
encampment of the GAR. It was held in November, 1866,
in what was then a young and rapidly growing city. It
was organized in Decatur, Illinois, in the winter of 1865-66.
Its membership grew into hundreds of thousands.
Although the GAR ruled as far back as 1869 that the
organization should not be used for partisan political pur
poses, it has naturally been a powerful factor in political
calculations and the shaping of the party conduct both in
nominations and elections as well as legislation, especially
for "liberalizing" pensions.
Pinched for Driving While Eating
Seattle, Wash. (U.fi) Donald W. Issaks, 27, was held for
driving while eating.
Police said he was eating and drinking off a large drive
In tray on the outside ot hli car while weaving through a main
Intersection. . , . , , . ... ., .
7 MOM PROMlSEO TO LEAVE THE )
I I DOOR KEY UNDER THE MAT IF ( T&fflvwftTC&fr-
I SHE WENT OUT. BELIEVE ME, , W
Na I'LL BAWL HER OUT PLENTY t '
I XL F0R KEEPING US SITTIN6 HERE jjSf O
ff IN THE HEAT... SHE'LL FEEL jS'h rP,
I b.PRETTV S1 WHEN 1 6ET ) W-i-M 9 "tg!
' W?Wjt& , sHE comes...ano ekfmmA', I
MERRY-GO-ROUND WHIRLS AHEAD
It was two and a half years ago that the first revelations
regarding General Barry Vaughan and the amazing Mr. Mara
gon first were published.
The inside story of White House influence now unearthed
by the senate, was first told by Drew Pearson in a series
of columns beginning March 17, 1947, which told-about the
Maragon junkets to Europe, the perfumery brought back to
cabinet wives, Maragon's demotion of a brigadier general In
Rome, and various other lobbying efforts, some ot them so
far still uncovered by the senate committee.
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
BI66EST ODDS IN THE
WORLD?-THAT THERE WOHil
S EVER BE TWO PEOPLE
i nMfinu ILCNIIUtL
7 FINGERPRINTS.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Anti-Monopoly Congressmen
Irked by Adviser's 'Lobbying'
(Ed. Note While Drew Pearson is on vacation, the Wash
ington Merry-Go-Round Is being written by bis old partner,
Robert S. Allen),
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Worse Than Disease
By DON UPJOHN ,
Our favorite waitress who noticed our comment on the epidemic
sniffling going on hereabouts this a. m. gave us what she said was
a sure fire recipe for curing these colds. She said the thing to do
is to eat a lot of parsley. Her explanation was that parsley is sup
posed to contain oodles of vitamin A and this is understood to be
the champion
.(SPy f, 2. About half the require
ments of iodine.
3. About one-tenth of the
needed protein, calcium, mag
nesium, phosphorous, vitamin A,
thiamine, riboflavin and niacin.
"To make a completely round
ed meal from a nutritional
standpoint, only additional
sources of calories are needed,"
the service said.
By ROBERT S.ALLEN
Washington President Truman, who has complained repeat
edly about lobbying, is due to get a similar complaint against a
member of his own official family.
He is John D. Clark, of the White House council of economic
advisers.
The former
Standard Oil of
Indiana official
has aroused the
ire ot a group
of anti-monopoly
congressmen
They charge he
has been quiet
ly lobbying to
restore the bas
ing - point price
system outlaw
SUPPRESSED ECA REPORT
One of the major differences
between the house and senate on
the deadlocked ECA appropria
tion bill is continuance of the so
called Marshall plan watchdog
committee. The senate is in
sisting on continuing the com
mittee; the house is opposed.
Senate demand for continu
ance of the committee is based
on the contention it is needed to
maintain an independent check
on ECA operations abroad. But
while the senate has been press-
1 tsTtsS 1-.
1 ONLY 2 OF EVERY 5 ADULTS La I
. CAN'T BOWL. SnrS 1
L s-, (AsmiKtwwMow I'GSPn I
ODDS ARE 9 TO I
THE PERSON KILLED IN A MOTORCYCLE
ACCIDENT WILL BE THE OCCUPANT OF THE
VEHICLE. '
Von Upjolm
cold chaser
away. I n case
anyone doesn'l
know what this
parsley stuff is
she recora-ljj
mends, It's the
green sprig
which is always
laid on a piece
of meat at res
t a u r a n t ban
quets. For fur
ther identification, this is the
sprig which, when laid on the Our old friend Spec Keene,
meat at resaurant banquets, one now living in Corvallis, is get-
sers stealthily removed by t, himsef new car because
about 95 per cent of the males , . . ...
present and shunted to one side he had a host in his garage
where it doesn't have to be ovcr 'here the other night. About
eaten. We're still looking for 2 a.m., the horn of his car which
some man who likes parsley, had been garaged for the night
As an individual case we may started sounding off. After it
be frank and come right out and had whooped it up for about
say that between parsley and 30 minutes with Spec sleeping
the sniffles the sniffles are pref- through it all a neighbor, who
erable. We have a sneaking thought somebody in the street
idea that even a porker would was having fun got up to in-
nuzzle it out of the trough. vestigate. But there was no
1 01 S .. car out in front so he looked
Health in Six Swallows around out bac'k and smelled
Washington VP) Six oysteri sHoke. Soon he saw smoke corn
day will help keep the doctor ing from Spec's garage. He
away. The word comes from called the fire department and
the fish and wildlife service. In the firemen shoved the burning
its annual announcement herald- car out of the garage before it
ing the start of the R-months damaged anything but the car.
oyster season, the agency said A short in the horn connection
an average serving of six oys- had touched it off. Spec never
ters will supply: used to sleep that sound when
1. More than the daily re- he had to worry about his Wil-
quirements of iron and copper, lamette football team.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Hitler Turned Out to Be
A Messy Paperhanger
By HAL BOYLE '
New York, Sept. 1 (P It is ten years ago to-ay since Adolph
Hitler plunged the world into its first trillion-dollar war.
No paperhanger in history ever messed up a place more.
Remember?
Millions of people heard the broadcast of the fateful speech to
t n e ncicnsiag
in which Hitler
told the German
people their
troops had
marched Into M
It gave a shiv
ery feeling The
fiery emotion
alism of the lit
tle man seeped
through his al
ien tongue into
FN
issue on earth and never set
tled. War didn't even dent the glob
al population. Wars never do
that so well as a good long
plague.
It is a tremendous tribute to
the imperishable vitality and
optimism of the human race that
it has gone on having children
like mad. There are some 2,300,
000.000 people in the world.
the hearts of listeners in many ZTJ' 1? 7!.180'-
- J V. Ylll 111 lUICHtd
The hall in which he spoke " than ever,
was hung with scnilrt banners, Here more people are eating
for red is the color of war. And higher, living better, earning
the hall shook with bursts of more, than at any period in our
massed applause as if led by history. And America is still a
invisible cheerleaders. little startled at the realization
It was like something out of il has replaced the British em-
the middle ages. Dlre as the biggest single factor
for world order.
Exactly 2,074 days later the That carries the privileges of
returns from Adolph's speech greater responsibilities a n d,
were i inevitably, higher taxes. That
His Reich and many other Price f bein 'he big
countries were in ruins. Some , ,
22.060,000 men, women and chil
dren had been killed, including vhat did the war teach us?
Fuehrer Hitler and his arch- chiefly, it taught us a
buddy, Benito Mussolini, who sense of geography and that's
ended the war hanging by his important. Places like Bastogne
heels besides his mistress, dead Kasserine Gap, Tokyo, Paris,
and bleeding. Some 34,400,000 London, Liege, and Berlin don't
had been wounded. scem 50 strange and far now.
It wa, the biggest Jackpot of Milllo,n' came home with memo
all time for Brother Mar,. He ' what PP e lk and
had rung up $1,118,991,463,084 how ,hey 1,ve in tor'8n Plac
on his cash register and about There is a steel skyscraper
$230,900,000,000 i n property growing up now beside Man
damage. This doesn't even in- hattan's east river, the first
elude the cost in money and building in the United Nations
damage ot the long war in Chi- new home. For the question is
na, which is still In flower. longer whether any particu-
The United States picked up lar nation can get along in the
the biggest part of the check world, but whether all nations
$330,030,463,084 and it is still ean Set along in the world to
picking up the checks. gcther.
Whether they do or not, it is
What docs it all add up to? doubtful whether war in itself.
Well, the Germans are still even in the radio-active atomic
sorting bricks from tjie rubble of cn lon destroy anything
their cities, and' will be for durable and stubborn as man
years. They are bystanders now. kind.
But the chief issue raised by For nothing yet has ever been
Hitler is still undecided free- able to keep people from having
dom from tyranny, the eldest hope and children.
ed by the Su- Bobrt S. Allen
prene Court.
Chief complainers are Reps. thl, t, ,t
Wright Patman, D , Tex., and tee has been withholding a high
John Carroll, D., Colo., who ly revealing report on French
were largely instrumental In attitude toward ECA.
nutting through the house re- , ,. .
cently the bill-barring business , Rnea.s0" 'or h.e PP"ssion
lat on enacted I in ply congress. But, whatever the
Their contention is that it is with the house for another $350 -
futile for . them to seek to 000 to continue functi0ning.
strengthen the governments ...
hand against' monopoly when a .
member of the White House Hasic theme of the -report is
staff is opposing them. They tha' very "le effort is being
want the President to muzzle made inform the French peo-
clark Pie what the U.S. is doing for
... ' ... ... 1 them under the Marshall plan
His position on this issue is As a of thI fajlure
cunous' the report, "this enormous op
Last summer, he vigorously eration, which is costing the
backed the federal trade com- United States so much money;
mission when a committee head- js viewed with hostility
ed by Sen. Homer Capehart, R., .Thi. fff ,. 'u .
ind. tried to browbeat the agen- jgfc in t nceVlt
cy into approving basing-po.nt meddlesome presumptuous
fVTC mSVSi SCh6me 0f the Umte1 State
held the FTC in its refusal. use France tg our own ends .
Four months later, the Su- Tv, -- ,
preme Court ruled against m," tna the
Standard Oil of Indiana in an arffsha 1 P?an can.nt succeed as
..x A ni long as this attitude prevails,
anti - trust case brought by a (Tfr . yicvtt"3
group of Michigan small-busi- report thah "p a'n wuf h
si cTar-k, S vete'd 'Jt" fif
, . , i i stay of four years and cost the
his attitude Since then, he has u s taxpayer $15;ootn
been quietly pressuring for re- , h p p
storation of the bas.ng-point sys- being realized jn Europe
em" ... "To the extent that the Mar-
NATIVE D.P.'S tna11 plan ails of achievement
Senator Pat McCarran, D., of "f als V 1952. America's
Nev., is not only vehemently op- Pr.oblem. from being over,
posed to foreign D.P.'s, but ap- wlU have ust beun- We will
pears bent on making displaced ?e up Wnst a France which
persons out of a group of native "as never understood the Mar
Americans. fna11 Pjan. or. that America was
That is the charge made in 8od faith offering to under
agalnst him by the Pyramid wnte recovery and the con
Lake Paiute tribe in his home l"?"4 protection against corn
state. munism."
...
A resolution adopted by the
tribal council charges that a bill . The report severely criti-
introduced by McCarran would cizes the French government and
turn over valuable reservation French press for not publiclz-
land to white cattlemen. The in8 the work of the Marshall
interior department has de- Plan-
nounced the measure, and the "They left the Job of explaln-
Supreme Court has upheld the ing American efforts to succor
tribe's claims. France," the report says, "to the
McCarran's bill would cir- biggest, one of the richest and
cumvent that decision. the most effective publicity or-
NOTi; Despite his intransi- ganizations in the world, the
gent opposition to liberalizing communist party,
the obstructive displaced persons "That party has not missed
law, McCarran sought to obtain bet to deride, malign and falsify
special permission to bring in the Marshall plan with every
several hundred basque sheep- segment of the French popula-
herders for Nevadans. tion. The French administra-
tors of the Marshall plan have
INTELLIGENCE CHIEF not begun to match these hostile
Alfred McCormack, wartime operations."
Pentagon intelligence c o 1 0 n e 1 o-v,. , ,1. , , j,
and New York attorney, has the v TneKrePrt slates leading
ir,!H, i-oi, . .T.., i..lii" t j French newspapers bluntly de-
Send your "Odds" questions on any subject to "The Wizard
of Odds," care of the Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon.
WARNING ON SLASH IN FUNDS
Today's Marines Carry
Four Times Old Fire Power
(Editor's Note Veteran War Correspondent Robert C. Mil-
ler, who landed on Guadalcanal with the first U. 8. Marines,
has just completed a tour of duty with the same outfit on
peacetime maneuvers in California.
(He found the present day Marine the "world's deadliest
killer" with each squad of men carrying four times the fire
power It did on Guadalcanal.)
of the central intelligence agen
cy.
clare they cannot "afford to be
pro-American because it would
OeWItt MnekeDilt
has applied
a jm D Ti-ii 1 Lt i-uai uieui cii uuiaiiuil.
CIA" chic?"! anxbus T hoYd ""j? l "
on to the job and has been doing jV'!L?
some wire-pulling for that. But Yr,!,Per.vf . ?l
he has a spotty record, and the M. k.." .u".
President wants to try a civilian
In this key post,
Marshall plan's objectives that
all the non-communist French
Latest CIA bust was the re- Pr?:bL"?d;
cent Syrian army coup that de-
"The parties in the French
posed the late Marshal Zaim "l unaense any
CIA was caught flatfooted on lnfurmatl.n Pf aI""nIe" the
that uvk-u on are convinced that the end out-
McCormack was brought into P 1 1 ' c a 1 differences,
army G-2 by Former Sectary T SLgnl at "UCh
of War Stimson. McCormack C
had no previous military serv- "mti
ice, and has been practicing cor- "J.?' CnSe'
poration law since 1946. ,uences' (CoprIltM m
Luigi Doesn't Want to Tie This
San Francisco U.R A gist of wind caught Luirl Flag
lirllo's tie, as he started across a Market street Intersection
It flipped and hooked onto the door handle of a passing
panel delivery truck. Flagliello was dragged across the
Intersection before the driver became aware of his protesting
passenger.
Flagliello, 65, who will recover from bruises and scrapes,
said he was considering giving up wearing ties.
7oVe Prize to Rent Warehouse
Methuen, Mass. U.B Julius Zurwell, who won- $29,000 in
prises on a radio quiz program, said the- toughest problem
he had was finding suitable froien locker space for the 108
dozen cases of frosen foods Included In Mi winnings. -
By" ROBERT C. MILLER
Camp Pendleton, Calif., Sept. 1 U.R) New and secret infantry
weapons today make the American Marine the world's deadliest
killer.
And after extensive maneuvers here at Camp Pendleton, twice
wounded Major General Graves Erskine declared that his fa
mous First Marine Division was
ready to "fight anybody, any- ample of American guts and de
where, at' anytime." - termination against overwhelm-
But the scarred general warn- ing odds; it would have been a
ed that any congressional slash Jap slaughter."
of marine appropriations to ...
build bombers "would castrate Upstairs, the marines are sup-
the corps." ported by rocket-firing, bomb-
The veteran U.S. First Marine carrying fighters whose reserve
Division, with which I landed P'lots repeatedly laid explosives
on Guadalcanal during World on infantry requested targets
War II as a United press car cor- less than 90 seconds after a plea
respondent, had equipment al- 'or help.
ready crated and tabled for port These multipurpose vought ,
of embarkation. corsairs pack the wallop of a
The marines are the only de- cruiser battery, carry 1500 .
fense unit in America today Pounds of bombs and double the, ,
organized for immediate action, strafing fire of the tiny bomb-
, , , less grummans which were
. thrown into the Guadalcanal
On the ground, marine com- , .
panies are walking arsenals, Dreacn , .
carrying sufficient fire power to Behind the infantry today is
blast or sear their way through marine artillery whose battery
the strongest known defenses. commanders face loss of com-
Each squad carries four times mand if unable to place a bar-
the rifle and automatic weapons rage within two hundred yards
it did on Guadalcanal, and its of friendly positions and court
four - man fire teams do the martial for short bursts,
previous work of twelve. The Pendleton maneuvers
At Tech. Sgt. Paul A. Hodge, emphasized atomic warfare, us-
a Solomons veteran of Knox- ing Geiger counters and special
ville Tenn., explained: "If we washing and decontamination
had today's weapons on the equipment unheard of during
'Canal, that campaign never the division's first anti-axis at-
would have been a historic ex- tack seven years ago.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Trouble Behind Iron Curtain
Points to Cold War Crisis
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
((P) Foreign Attain Analratl
Fast moving events are highlighting the disclosure In Wash
ington that Russia's grip on lis eastern European satellites is re- :
liably reported to be badly shaken by the fight wtih Marshal
Tito of Yugoslavia. . '
Treading on each others heels have come these significant '
developmen t s :
(1) Czecho-
prison and ten were acquitted.
The government said the leader
was Dr. Jaroslav Borkovec, de
scribed as brother of a former
chief of the criminal investiga
ton section of the Prague polce,
The official report charged,
that rebels were under direction
of "a certain western imperial
ist power" and that a copy of
their plan of action was deposit
ed with a western embassy in
Prague. This western power
was not named.
Could Moscow have America
or Britain in mind?
...
As discussed in yesterday's
column, these reports of dis
content and disaffection among
Slovakia's com
munist govern
ment has an
nounced that it
smashed a large
armed revolt by
c 0 n s p 1 r ators
who tried to
capture Prague
and establish
an anti - Soviet
regime.
(2) Yugoslavia
formally for a loan of $25,000,-
000 from the export - import
bank, an American government
agency. Tito needs quick cash
with which to buy American
machinery for his country's cop
ner. lead and zinc mines. Wash
ington officials expect mm 10 uie saieimes is expecxea 10 nave
get the loan. He also has re- an important place in the forth-
ceived permission to buy a three coming meeting in Washington
million dollar steel mill from among Secretary of State Ache-
an American concern. son, Brtish Foreign Secretary
(3) Moscow has sent another Bevin and French Foreign Min-
hot note its eighth to Yugo- lster Schuman.
slavia, charging that the Tito Observers are looking for
government is working "only these diplomats to review the
on instructions of its western strategy of the cold war with
masters." Russia in the light of the de-
... velopments and devise new
Of these developments, by far mr to counter the Kremlin
JhrSLi"f.?"t:,.0fUrS1eJ One dramatic new move al-
19 jcvumnuiioij ttu lit
Czechoslovakia.
ready has been made In allow
ing Tltn tn Vitiv tha v4 ssl mill
This in itself would be enough which will be Important in
to rock the foundations of the strengthening his military poten-
Red Eastern European empire, tial for defense. The probabil-
It is doubly dangerous since ity of a loan or loans, fits into
lt is coupled with Tito's polit- this picture,
cal revolt, disaffection in other A signficant aspect of this
satellite states and the defiance situation is that disaffection
of little Finland which Moscow often is like an avalanche in the
is trying to force within the So- way it gathers weight as it pro
vet zone of domination. gresses. Who knows but that the
Czech communist authorities defiance of Finland and of Tito
moved fast in exacting punish- may have encouraged the Czech- .
men. Six accused were con- oslovak revolt?
demned to death in secret trials, This looks like a crucial mo
an unspecified number went to ment in the cold war.
M