4
book of Gene- ny.
sis we are re
minded that "In
the sweat of thy
face shalt thou
eat bread, till
thou return un
to the ground."
Some people
look upon this
as a curse, but
Jeremy Taylor
contended: Rer. oeorrn swirt
The labor
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4 Salem, OreRon, Saturday, September 10, 1949
Long Strikes Disastrous
The 82-day strike of employes of the North Coast Grey
hound bus lines has been called off, both the union and
company having agreed to arbitrate differences. The
federal mediator at Seattle announces that representatives
of both sides have reached agreements on most points of
difference and accepted arbitration for the remaining four
or five points.
The buB employes have lost 83 days of wages, the com
pany has lost 83 days of operation costs, never to be re
gained by the workers or the employers, but as usual the
greatest losers are the people served, commuters and trav
elers, who have been put to great inconvenience and extra
expense.
Eventually all labor disputes have to be settled by medi
ation or arbitration, so what's the sense of an 83-day
strike to do what could and should have been done before
the strike was called, especially since employes have been
rceiving the highest wages in history?
As the bus strike ends, a railroad strike begins that
may also continue 83 days for far greater loss to all affect
ed. Some 5000 operating employes of the Missouri Pacific
railroad have tied-up the 7200-mile traffic railroad system
in 8 states of the central southwest, forcing the lay-off of
22,500 non-operating employes, and eventually forcing
many industries to close-down, idling tens of thousands
of other workers, as well as inflicting losses on the general
public. The railroad carried an average of 12,000 passen
gers a day.
The strike seems inexcusable and unjustifiable for the
four brotherhoods refused to accept the findings of a
presidential fact-finding board and rejected arbitration.
R. E. Davidson, assistant grand master of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers, says that arbitration
was rejected because "some issues are just not arbitrable."
There are 282 union demands.
Yet arbitration or mediation must eventually be the
solution, or one side or the other go out of business, so
why not arbitrate before the menace of disaster mate
rializes? Meanwhile, Federal Mediation Director Cyrus S. Ching
is holding conferences in New York trying to settle the
long Hawaiian dock strike called by left-winger Harry
Bridges, which has for months paralyzed economic and
social activities in the islands and threatened starvation to
the population. Never will either side recover financial
losses incurred, which is probably what Bridges desires.
Meanwhile, Bridges is trying, with some success, to ex
tend the labor boycott on Hawaiian ships to all ports in
the world to prevent unloading the ships the territorial
government is loading. The strike seems a communist
test of power to show what would happen to American
shipping in case of a war with Russia, and so allied to the
cold war against democracy.
The president could have stopped some of these dis
astrous strikes if he had utilized the Taft-Hartley law
but he is playing politics with it instead for the 1950 elec
tion. Eugene Approves One-Way Grid System
When Salem was making its final decision on accepting
the Baldock traffic plan, several opponents of the plan
pointed to dissatisfacton in Eugene with the one-way grid
system ther. In fact, at the council meeting at which
the Baldock plan was finally voted, one opponent predict
ed overwhelming disapproval of the Eugene system in an
opinion poll being taken there.
The results are now in on what Eugene thinks about
the one-way system. Eighty percent voted in favor of
continuing the grid system, with certain modifications.
This overwhelming approval was announced Friday.
Covered in the survey were the businessmen inside the
downtown grid. In a simple question of whether or not
the businessman favored or disapproved of the grid, the
answer was 251 in favor of the grid and 64 opposed. There
were many questions bringing out sentiment in favor of
minor changes. Asked if they wanted to change the two
main business streets back to two-way, the businessmen
voted two to one against a two-way arrangement on those
specific, key streets.
Recently, drivers of vehicles In Eugene were asked
nbout their views on the grid system there. They, too,
yotd overwhelmingly in favor of the present basic plan
in the same proportion as did the downtown business
men. As for businessmen outside the grid system, their
votes in the latest poll showed the same reaction in favor,
as did their downtown associates.
This favorable opinion of a traffic system designed to
meet the congestion in downtown areas in growing com
munities is significent because it was instigated by those
protesting the grid. Some people in Snlom were so certain
the vote was going to go the other way that they based
their opposition to a one-way grid here on the outcome of
the Eugene poll.
Now that Eugene has so definitely expressed itself, the
last vestige of opposition to the Baldock plan should be
squelched in Salem. The state highway commission is
scheduled to complete the formal agreement with Salem
at the September meeting next week.
Then the Baldock plan can be put in actual operation.
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faCSti s-H that motor 1""h we can keep ffy&
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Ban on Airplane Junkets
Backfired on Johnson
By DREW PEARSON
Washington There was a lot more than meets the eye behind
the way Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson suddenly pulled In
his horns about the airplane junketing of congressmen.
Real fact is that If Johnson had stuck to his guns and congress
had done any investigating, the executive branch of the govern
ment would have been shown
up for private joy-riding per- has loaned his plane to private
haps more than congress. For Individuals.
Johnson himself uses an army The president has a habit of
plane almost every weekend to telling friends, "On, take my
gy GUILD
Wizard of Odds
visit his home in Clarksburg,
W. Va., while Secretary of the
Navy Matthews uses a navy
plane to fly back to his home
in Omaha on weekends.
That was why wise Steve
Early, undersecretary of national
defense, called majority leader
plane," no matter where they
are going.
Last year, for instance, he
sent his private plane across the
Atlantic with Archbishop Athen
agoras to Turkey, supposedly as
an act of good will to the Greeks.
But General Vaughan, who ar-
Scott Lucas of Illinois and asked ranged the trip at the suggestion
him to arrange a conference with of his two cronies, John Mara-
Sen. Elmer Thomas of Okla
homa, the man who had been re
buffed by Johnson regarding an
airplane junket for his committee.
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Nothing Without Labor
But Life Can Still Be Empty
BY REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
Rector 81 PkUl'a Bpljtropftl Chureb
The motto of our class in high school was "Nihil sine Lahore."
or "Nothing Without Labor." It was a good motto for that day. It
still is for today.
To help engrave these words upon our hearts and minds, our
higl. school class rings bore the same inscription: "Nihil sine
Lahore." In my experience, and
I am sure in the experience of realize that, instead of a curse,
all in our class, that Latin phrase work is a blessing,
has carried a message which has We who have the privilege of
rung true. going about under our own
In the early chapters of the power and having a job to do,
gon and William Helis, did not
realize that Athcnagoras is not
particularly popular in Greece
and that the gesture did not
benefit the U. S. A.
Shortly after the war, forth
right Secretary of War Bob
BEEN IN A CAR ACCIDENT? ODDS ARE 5 TO I SKIDDING.
t RATHER THAN ABLOW
Ull 1 ' 1 I r s
15.000 NEW HOMES STAND
UNSOLD IN THE U.S. - YET ODDS ARE
97 TO I A6AINST AN APARTMENT
BEING VACANT.
AMERICANS.
ODDS ARE ONLY I IN 4 YOU
PRONOUNCE WORDS THE SAME
WAY AN ErttLISHMAN
PRONOUNCES THEM.
(Mies. TED DUNMAHt
AMUVCUS, 6A.)
n
Hal Reminisces on Column
He's Been Writing 6 Years
should thank God from the
depths of our hearts for the
blessing of the privilege of hav
ing something to do.
The reason some people do
not appreciate the privilege of
honest labor with their hands or
minds, or both, is because they
do not labor with their souls.
If, as Jeremy Taylor said,
"Our very bed would not be so
great a blessing without work,
nor could men sleep so soundly,
At thA ftff-thA-rArmH cAccinn
which followed, Early told Sena- Patterson laid down a flat rule POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
tor Thomas that
Johnson had not
seen the letter
written to him,
that it was writ
ten by an under
ling, and that
Johnson didn't
even know a
bout it.
Early quite
Franlrlv admit
ted that there fei
had been some
r oipnianp tunketine bv
hirwie in the government. He Patterson's ruling was reinstat-
also reminded Thomas that any ed. ...
investigation would bring out
some equal abuse by congress- WHISPERING CAMPAIGN
Drew Pearion
against airplane junketing
pecially against private planes
with special crews for cabinet
bigwigs. Patterson even ruled
that he himself was not to have
a private plane.
It's been only three short
years since that ruling was made.
But, in the interim, it's become
as obsolete as the use of wigs by
the supreme court of the United
States. The American taxpayer
would be a lot better off, how
ever, if
By HAL BOYLE
New York U.R) This is the sixth anniversary of my entrance
into prison.
It is a hoosegow of the mind The business of writing a
daily newspaper column. The high walls and iron bars of this
montal nenitentiarv don't show. But they are there in the con-
Secretary Johnson had !- h-ain ernwine higher and
stuck to his original guns or if str0nger with the years. Smith, a U. S. senator from
Writing a newspaper column Maine, now writes a column, do
is one of the oddest occupations do a number of congressmen,
in our screwball civilization. To be a columnist, it isn't
Tn vianA a lowvpp a doctor, necessarv to be able either to
mpn. The armv he said, even had Without mpaninir in iho cm .n ndortairpr vnn have to eo think or to write. You can hire
requests from congressmen call- touched off a whispering cam- to school. But there is no college ghosts to do those chores for
ing for airplane rides home on paingn against Senator Elbert for columnists anymore than you.
the pretext of official business. Thomas, Utah democrat, back In there is for astrologers. But if you do it yourself, It Is
Therefore, proposed the un- his home state no nQ standard hard worki and the loneliest
dersecretary of defense, bom It was caused by a routine t mtalifiratinn. no trainine for industry on earth. For brain
sides should call it quits. And in check which the FBI made on
the future, he said, the air forces n delegates appointed by Presi-
the bizarre business.
and sweat of our brows is far "r .be
from being a curse, that without ''. " ' k" 7w
it our very bed would not be so ' i. idt
i . , t -i . dissatisfied people are without
great a blessing. If it were not .
7 - i.u. ,,.,. i,v,- benefit of the exercise of their
would take the word of any con
gressman, when he wanted a
plane, that it was for official
business.
Senator Thomas was delight
ed. A few days before, he had
called for a report on every
dent Truman to represent the
United States at an International
Conference at Geneva, Switzer
land. As head of the delegation,
Thomas was investigated along
Unlh nil IVlA nfliaK JolaitBta.
But for some reason, an FBI Pewitt MacKen
agent called upon a republican
Drew Pearson started as a
JinlAm.fin W A
porter. Walter
Winchcll began
i n vaudeville.
was a for-
zie
SEl Plane-used by the White -j S wok
LZr cX. And the republican promptly ?
inet member. But now he accep- sPread .tne .word. that Thomas
ed Early's compromise and call- u"d investigation by the
Z T,f m. nrnhA the implication being that
t i fh
for labor, men could neither
eat so much, nor relish it so suu f c"1, " " ,hs' .,Ti
, , eration of the soul that all else
pleasantly, nor sleep so soundly, , , . . .
h. J h.aithf.,1 . ,Af,,l takes on meaning and purpose
nor be so healthful, so useful, so
strong, so patient, so noble, nor
so untempted."
and appreciation.
"Nihil sine Lahore.'
Nothing
But one of the great problems can be accomplished without
In any economy is to provide labor, it is true, but even with
work for every man. whether he labor, life will find an emptiness
be an executive, professional, and a meaninglessness if it has as they please
artisian, or plck-and-shovel man. not the spiritual clement to in
It is when the right or ability spire and encourage and give
to work is taken away that men purpose to what is done.
U7 crt m.O Ihino ain.Ftai
So in tne tuiure n iooks Actually, it was nothing but a
both the executive branch and routine check.
congress can Junket preuy mucn
children have only one parent
the frontal lobe.
Some people have tht Idea
that writing a daily column Is
a glamorous career, and a lead
pipe cinch. But those who have
done it know better. The late
Don Marquis called it "digging
a daily grave". Asked if ha
found his task diffficult, Red
Smitfe, celebrated sports col
umnist of the New York Herald
! Tribune, said:
"No, you just sit down at your
typewriter, open . you veins
and bleed."
ADVICE NOT LIMITED TO REAL ESTATE
Don't Under-rate a Woman
Portland, Ore. W) Never underestimate the power, or the
versatility, of a woman especially when she's looking for
real estate.
Mrs. R. B. Butler, Tulsa, Okla., president of the women's
council of the National Association of Real Estate boards, told
the Oregon Realtors convention that 90 per cent of real estate
purchases are made or influenced by women.
Mrs. Butler said her survey of 3,000 housewives showed that
women wanted these things In a home.
No celling lights In the bedroom "because a woman looks
10 years younger when the light doesn't shine in her face."
A tool cabinet in the garage "so my husband will stay home
more."
Double garages not necessarily for two cars, but for more
storage space.
SIPS FOR SUPPER
The man who originally start
ed junketing in army planes was
Secretary of War Patrick J.
Hurley back in the Hoover ad
ministration. At that time it was
a democratic congress which
protested.
Especially when Hurley, fly
ing to a meeting of Indiana edi
tors, made an emergency land
ing and smashed up his plane,
democratic congressmen howled
to high heaven. They didn't mind
the possible loss of a republican
secretary of war, but they did
object to the loss of a $72,000
plane.
Since then the cost of airplane
Many loyal citizens are check
ed by the FBI every day as a
routine precaution before they
are hired by the government.
(CopyrlKht 1948)
Thomas R',k wre
sports wrutrra.
Eleanor Roose
velt was a moth
er and magazine ' '
editor, Billy Rose a showman How do you get a Job writing
and song writer. a column?
Will Rogers, Bob Hope and Some people ask for It and
Milton Berle turned to column- it just happens to others. It just
ing after successful careers as happened to me.
comedians. Margaret Chase
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
British Economic Ills Go
Back to Before World War I
By DoWITT MacKENZIE
ion Foreign Affalrn Anelrst)
The cure for England's economic Illness is a matter of guess
work, but there need be no doubt as to the basic cause of the
malady, for it is deep-seated and had its inception long ago.
The fact is that Britain is suffering from an inherent weakness
which was bound to result in an economic upheaval in due course.
What happened is that two
In 1943 the Associated Press
decided it wanted a warfront
column about the troops. It ask
ed one reporter to do it, and
this wise man said, "No, thanks."
Someone then happened to re- .
call I was in Sicily. And a mes
sage came. "Boyle, start writing
a column." I did.
Although the war ended four
years ago, no one thought to
revoke the order. So I am still
at it.
That is a funny thing about
columns and comic strips. They
go on forever like Tarzan of
the Apes.
The danger in columnlng it
construction has so increased world wars have so speeded up en in Manchester from raw cot- that it is likely to give a man
that the smash-up of the big events that this crisis has de- ton bought in the United States the idea he is an expert on
transports which carry the cab- veloped before its time. This and other cotton producing coun- everything from cattle breeding
inei wouio. oe nearer i,uuu,uuu. Knowledge won t De oi mucn tries. to flagpole sitting, its
Since then also, Pat Hurley's assistance to the doctors who
New Ink Slinger
By DON UPJOHN
Note that the state is soon to have a new Ink slinger who's
planning on doing a scries, as he says. He won't be quite the same
type as Bob Case, Ernie Haycox, et al, but plans to be pretty
vitriolic and punch a mean typewriter key as it were. We haven't
heard yet whether he plans to write under his nom de plume of
or will .
, and at the time indicated it had
ideas of airplane junkets have
n't changed, and the war depart
ment still has a $30,000 bill
which it's been trying to collect
from the state department for
the use of a special army plane
when he was ambassador to
China and insisted on a private
plane to carry him home.
now are holding the economic
Suffice It to hark back to the
beginning of this century. Brit
ain was at the peak of her imper
ial greatness, boasting an empire
upon which the,
"Mike'
sign his stuff as
Marion L e R oy
but from what
little short
squibs and es
says he has turn
ed loose on the
public so far no
doubt he will bo
a shining suc
cess as there's
no question at
all but what his
Don tfplnnn
its stamp program for the year
all laid out. This created quite
a sensation below the Mason and
Dixon line where the Confeder
ate Veterans, southern organiza
tion similar to the GAR, didn't
like to be slighted. Protests be
gan to flood Washington. So
now comes word that on Sep
tember 29 there'll be a stamp
for the Confederate Veterans.
The postoflice backbone weak-
Since then, other cabinet of
ficers though democrats have
caught up with Hurley.
For instance, the war depart
ment sent the interior depart
ment a $16,000 bill for the per- factory chlm
interior Krug to Japan, carrying
Krug's father and his personal
physician. Dr. Roy L. Sexton,
who, because of Krug's health,
frequently accompanies him. The
army felt that since Krug had
made this something of a family
earlier ventures in the field of ened, then snapped.
prose have had plenty of read
ers, in Multnomah county, at any
We can Imagine an Oregon
occupa-
The length of time this phen- tlonal hazards are chair soref
omenon could last HAnAndpd nf and nunditrv.
clinic in Washington, but it will COurfe. nn hour Inns it fnnlr fnr. A UMlA hahv nil In th rlffht
have to be taken into consider- eign countries to develop their spot will heal the chair sores,
tion. own resources. There was nn And but there is no cure except death
In sight when World War I broke for the columnist who acquires
and changed the picture. the disease of taking himself
Overnight Britain found her- too seriously,
self so occupied with making war
that she no longer could act as Columnists, like president,
merchant to foreign countries. get man.y letters and small gift
Later along came the Hitler- from the people. If they write
ian catastrophe which reduced that they like blackcherrlei.
,much of the world to a state someone is sure to send them a
of economic chaos. Britian was D0X' But " tney mention they
again hard hit. are 'ond ' ,ea breezes, no one
ever airmails them a yacht.
, , . , , But It's the sentiment that
This columnist isn t one of COUnts. So, even though my
those who think England's great- halr lt fa3t vanishing, I am
ness has run its course. With help grateful for the fellow who sent
from her friends she will weath- me a bottle of beer shampoo,
er the present economic hurrl- u tasted fine, and my goddaugh-
cane- ter thought it was cute the way
Britain still has great colonial I burped soap bubbles for three
possessions, many of which are davs.
has And right now I want to thank
sun the reader who mailed me a
sun never set.
Her economic
status was as
the Rock of Gib
r a 1 1 a r. The
smoke from heri
neys wrote a
cross the skies
the proud claim
that her manu
factures encir
cled the world.
Her banks extended their op
Aratinn into far lands. Llovds
deal, the interior oepanmeni or insurance covered the globe like potentially rich. She still
Krug should foot the bill. , blanket. British capital Invest- an empire on which the
DvWItt Mickenil
State Fair without a lot of the
features around there now but
rate. So far his stuff has sclntu-
. , ., ;, . . come another year it's going to
chine politic,,' 'would be lyr- to visualize a state
nts and so on. It seems tne ... . rtl iVm i tu-
office. Her announcement of
I
Some People Steal Anything
Philadelphia, Sept. 10 W It seems aoma people will steal
anything.
Pollre report the theft of a ear with no foot pedals and
with special hand levers on the steering wheel.
It belongs to Lawrence J. Kltterman, 27-year-old navy vet
eran from Newport News, Va. Kltterman, who is partially
paralyzed, lost the use of his right leg at Bougainville.
Hauler Pays Three-Year 'Debt'
Jollet, III. uThree years ago. when Chris Hall did some
hauling for the highway department, it was discovered he
was overpaid.
State auditors ordered county officials to get a refund. The
county officers were willing to forget the matter but state
officials said it had to be collected.
At last, Holl has paid the county clerk the one-cent he
owed.
writings he propose arc to all
1 , ii t.. 1 ....... Ui. aarlL
. , , uT ... .;.. her retirement with the coming
est efforts had some ear marks ... , B
V . VJ ui v. u i of the new year was sort of a
about them wh ch wou d have heU gee
Indicated he might have done (ural (q m, eu nt hpr gs
right smart in the field of fic
tion.
The interior department final- ed heavily abroad, creating never sets and, with develop- glass eye recently.
ly scraped some money out of more "invisible revenues" for ment, it will represent a mighty It was just my color reddish
its budget and paid the air England. force. blue.
force, though In the end it was . Howevri there was a weak-
the taxpayer, not the interior ,n ,nij mighty structure. OPEN FORUM
department, who lost out. England in herself wasn't self- yjrcl ryjKum
In addition, Secretary of the sufficient. Apart from coal she D.l.'f' n I--- VJ
Treasury Snyder has his own had little mineral wealth. She rellOn TO IXeep KJlU V.0U7T tlOUSe
coast guard plane, a giant C-54, couldn't begin to feed herself, To the Editor: How manv of the people of Salem and Marlon
with a special crew assigned because she didn't have the acres, county have seen the beautiful miniature Marion county court-
it was to see the agricultural
building, the grandstand or any
- Note a nudist colony is being of the other long-standing per
planned in the neighborhood of manent adjuncts of the big show.
Philomath and not far from Cor- f:lla ha' overcome a million d, -vallis.
In fact, it is being ear- J'culties. straightened out a mil
marked for the site of the Amor- 10n tnnKlcs. listened to the
lean Sunbathe rs association. lnn""" of !;0U","M holsan,d
which is planning a convention exhibitors and others and has al
here for 1953. This, at least. w" come through with a smile,
should assure a big upswing in We don 1 know wht can possl
the male enrollment at the state b'v compensate her in the quiet
college come another school ' retirement for the hectic life
yMr she s led since Joining up with
the fair nearly 35 years ago. As
Speaking of political pressure, a trouble shooter she deserves
Last month the postofficc depart- a string of blue ribbons that
ment issued a postage stamp hnn- would stretch around Lone Oak
or ing the veterans of the GAR track at least twice.
merely to carry him wherever and so had to import a major
he wants to go. portion of her foodstuffs She
Then there is Secretary of lacked most of the raw materials
Commerce Sawyer who has a
special civil aeronautics plane
assigned to him, which he uses
to fly back home to Cincinnati
on weekends. And Secretary of
the navy Matthews, in addition
to using a special plane for week
ends In Omaha, took a recent
for her manufacturers.
house in the art building at the state fair? When you look at it
with its lighted Christmas tree, you realize anew what a beautiful
treasure the city of Salem has within Its borders.
However, as a prophet Is never
without honor save in his own course, but why should we not
How then did Britian achieve land, so is this beautiful building preserve our present building at
her industrial greatness? in our country. Architects from a museum? Future generation!
The answer: By . the very distant places come to study this will be glad If people are now
simple expedient of importing building. Travelers who know wise enough to realize Its worth
raw materials from undeveloped beautiful buildings in many and save the building,
countries, fabricatini the mater- lands have stopped here and it h., .i... .....
Junket to Honolulu, carrying his 8ls, and then selling the manu- bought pictures of it because of .i . . , , .
entire family along for a ten- factured products back to those its beauty. the petition for keeping the
day outing in Delightful Hawaii, countries. It does seem too bad that peo- buiIdin8 which Miss Renska
She sold steel to America and pie here want to destroy it. Swartz has In the art building,
many other nations. Britain If we do not wake up, lt will do not fall to do so when you
woolen goods were world fam- soon be only a memory as our visit the fair,
ous. India's millions clothed former state house now is. A BESSIE R. SHINN '
themselves in cotton goods wov- new courthouse is needed, of 2580 Hazel Ave., Salem
Another point which would
have come out if Senator Thom
as had insisted on his investi
gation is tin way Mr. Truman
y