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Easier Said Than Done
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Salem, Oregon, Monday, September 12, 1949
The New Rush to Gold Coast
The Pacific coast states, particularly California and
Washington, aie .having a phenomenal growth in popula
tion. In an article in the New York Sunday Times Maga
zine on Los Angeles, Sam Boal comments:
"The questions are easy but the answers are not. Even the
physical facts about Los Angeles, its phenomenal changes with
in the past 10 vears, are hard to explain. People are today
swarming into Los Angeles at the rate of 3.000 per week, and
they have not come to see Van Johnson's house. They have
come to stay. The metropolitan area has acquired just over a
million and a quarter permanent residents since 1940. Within
the last year Ios Angeles has become the third largest city in
the country nosing out Philadelphia."
Citizens from Washington here for the state fair, re
ported a similar rush is on to Washington with hundreds
of families arriving every week. They attribute the in
flux to the state's new social security program, liberalized
age pensions and socialized medicine and hospital service,
that insure social security from "cradle to the grave."
This mass migration to the coast is a modern version
of a gold rush for a social security bonanza which has an
irristible appeal to those seeking something for nothing
stimulated by favorable climate and scenic attractions. It
is the culmination of a long campaign which the magazine
Time describes as follows :
"Ever since the depression, noisy prophets had been spring
ing up along the Pacific coast to lead the aged in holy wars on
the nearest slate treasury. They were an odd lot power-hungry
communists, vote-hungry politicos, sharp-eyed promoters
and croupy and lugubrious old bucks with top-heavy cargoes
of park-bench economics. They herded their 'senior citizens'
into irascible pressure groups, made pensions a permanent poli
tical issue, and damned those who opposed them as monsters
who would starve their own grandmothers.
"The a vera op citizen in California, Oregon and Washington
voted for pensions with something of the attitude of a night
club sot, listening to Mother Machree it was hard to be critical
because the words were so sad. Furthermore, many of the old
folks had a legitimate case. But this summer thousands of
taxpayers were recalling their own generosity with purse
clutching alarm The Pacific coast had become a minor league
welfare state of its own, and new pension and welfare plans
seemed to be pushing the states toward the brink of bank
ruptcy." Californians voted last November for "Proposition No.
4," an amendment to the constitution, boosting pensions
for the aged to $75 a month, lowering the age limit from 65
to 63, ended the embarrassment of proving pauperism, per
mitting pensioners to have $3500 in real estate, an auto,
furniture and jewelry, $1500 in liquid assets and support
in part by relatives and still qualify.
In the first six months pensioners had increased from
198,000 to 245,000 and are still multiplying. The cost
had jumped to over $17 million a month and the state
treasury faces bankruptcy. An effort is underway to
modify by initiative bill the amendment, but the original
"ham and egg" organizers are conducting a statewide radio
campagin and protest meetings to "protect the old folk."
Washington's welfare system is even gaudier than that
of the California gold coast. Its citizens voted for initia
tive 172, a measure put over by the communist domin
ated Washington Pension Union.
Under its terms, one out of every 12 persons In the state
gets financial assistance for two years and the other 11
would pay almost as much to keep them as Grand Coulee
dam cost.
The old folks not only get money for mortgage pay
ments, rent, tax assessments, insurance, food and cloth
ing, but free medical and dental care, free hospitaliza
tion, free home-nursing service, free medicine, glasses
and artificial limbs. And the cost is bankrupting the state.
Oregon had a narrow escape because of faulty construc
tion of the illegal initiative bill passed by our big hearted
but thoughtless electorate. But they voted for increases
that would have cost more than the whole cost of running
the state, but failed to provide any means, of paying for
them.
Pensions, however, will still cost $28 million for the next
two years as against $300,000 in 1933-34. And another
effort will be made at the 1950 election to put over a
"large, wide and handsome" security bill that will spell
bankruptcy, killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Farmer's Luck Ran Out
Winrioin, Kan. (U.R Every grain farmer knows that draw
ing wheat is a great gamble, but Carl Teterson can add a
special attest to the statement.
Hail hammered down fields of wheat nearby. Peterson's
grain grew unharmed.
High winds then hit some of his friends' crops. Not his.
Wet weather diseases deeply slashed yields all over Kansas.
The glume blotch, leaf rust and mosiac fungus were not as
damaging on Peterson's farm.
He harvested 1,200 bushels of wheat and stored it In his
combination granary and machine shop.
Then came a bolt of lightning In a post-harvest rainstorm.
It set fire to the building and the entire 1.200 bushels were
destroyed, along with machine tools, a 14 -ton truck and 1,200
pounds of clover seed.
Angler and Bass Change Places
Ratavla, N. Y. (Mi William J. Ilnusenger caught his first
bass in 30 years because he thought he had met up with a
snake while fishing for bullheads.
Ilnusenger am! a companion were angling for bullheads on
Silver Lake when they heard a commotion In the water near
thrlr boat. Thinking It was a watcrsnake, Housenger Jumped
out of the boat, which was close to shore.
A few minutes later he and Smith discovered that a S'i
pound bass had Jumped Into the boat.
He Must Be a Tough Sarge!
Taroma (UP) The state patrol reportrd today that a con
vertible driven by Sgt. Melvin K. Kenoyer. Ft Lewis, had
done the following In this order on the highway near here:
Passed a truck on the right hand aide, struck a light pole,
turned over completely, continued on for 614 fret, knocked
down two guard rails and went over a small embankment near
a motel.
Power In the district waa off for an hour.
Sgt Kenoyer waa booked lot Investigation of drunken drlv-
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Truman Coached Vaughan
On 5-Percenter Testimony
By DREW PEARSON
Washington White House intimates say President Truman is
taking the battle over MaJ. Gen. Harry Vaughan more seriously
than the fight over government reorganization, arms for the North
Atlantic or any of the main planks on the fair deal program.
Before Vaughan testified, President Truman personally coached
him
A GUILD
Wizard of Odds
on every
possible quel
tion the sena
tors could ask.
Vaughan's state
m e n t was re
written three
times and re
duced from 20
odd pages of vi
triol to a reas
onable length. f '
The president fc;!u
also urged his " '
military aide to be all sweet
ness and light, not to lose his
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SIPS FOR SUPPER
So Be It
By DON UPJOHN
We note by press reports that now the Russians claim to have
been originators of the tank. As far as we're concerned there's
no objections to the claim. From what we've heard about' their
bouts with vodka they were not only the original tanks but are
still at it.
Numerous ar
guments today
about town as
to whether by
the switch over
again to time as
it was intended
folks lost an
hour's sleep or
picked one up.
It seems there
are arguments
for both sides of
this question or
When Franklin Roosevelt was
president of the United States,
he applied to government the
same strategy a military com
mander applies to his men in
the field.
If a member of his administra
tion became a liability, made too
many enemies in congress, Roo
sevelt eased him out even
though they were intimate
friends just as a military com
mander sometimes has to desert
men in the field.
Rexford Tuewell. once sum-
temper, never to insult the sena- marized it this way to friends
tors, never 10 mennon ms m- when he resigned as undersec-
tics by name. retary of agriculture:
Mr. Truman was chiefly wor- -a general in battle can't af-
ried over any probing of Vaug- ford to go into the front-line
nan c a m o a i g n contributions, trenches. He'i ent to tav he.
since the haphazard general had hind at staff headquarters. When DfnO AvIAM'C DWfnCDDWCO
insisted on bypassing the Demo- his subordinates become casu- IYMIV J rn I LKJjKJ rnci
cratic National committee ana allies, they either get shipped
worked direct with Louis John- back to hospitals or get buried,
son. No 'commander can hold up a
How much Vaughan raised In war because of them,
the last campaign probably he ! the battle over pure food
himself doesn't know, but some lnd drug advertising," continu
insiders estimate it at around e(j Tugwell with no bitterness,
$100,000, from all sorts of "I was carrying out Roosevelt's
sources. ideas. But it was much better
for me to take the raD and let
The White House has really him stay behind the political
IN 40 ODDS SH0WU3 100.7 MEN FOR fc
EVERY 100 WOMEN; NOW ODDS HAVE CRANED TjC
TO 99.1 MEN FOR 110 WOMEN, n o W JW
TOWN OF rtVit'J
NOT
mfS&-- A MINOR LEAullE
MmMWkmT BAIL PUYER HAS ooos
0FI3T0M6AINST
" LEAGUE PUYER (lomwiTHciAa.umKOHiCK v'""'uXsih ,
One of Hal's Fables
For the Atomic Age
an unholy temper." They were
r,d in oEudgert0"' M-uSept' ni been using police-state methods firing line
ioio. one was 10 lira aim , ,; ,ltVi the Vauohan All .l .j i; .i
in Lumiiiiiu.i ...... .. o in i tnc auvciuscis in
John was
celebrated
anniversary
their 70th weddini '"vesugauon. coumry, plus tne newspapers, him a lullaby
meir lum weaaing Nnt onlv do senators have a in iu mn at me r,H if. . ,,.
pretty good idea that their better for the chief if I now i,00k.
pnones are ueiug iajHcu, uuv resign.
certain witnesses and investiga- He did,
tors have been subjected to pres-
What's in a name. For In
stance there's Pete Haveluck who
got into the city jail this week
and Martha Washington also
picked up by the police and re
turned to Hillcrest home.
Don Upjohn
By the time
he was five he
sure. Harry Truman, however, be- r i j ,
Francis Flannigan, ace investi- lieves in getting into the front- Brittannica from
gdiui iui mc aciiois vu.... line 11 entiles, regaraiess 01 po
got a threat from the Trumanite litical shot and shell, and taking
Charles Clark, formerly attach- just as much criticism as his
Now that the pari-mutuels ,a! . ' I.T... . . " mun f 0151
there wouldn't be a n y argu- have folded up after a busy week j-'"' nnn . mnnih u suuuru.ndiea.
. ,otf..i in .i -i i j i. i, Clark now draws Sl.uuu a montn It s a fine personal quality,
ments. It seems so restful to there should be quite a run on
get back on a regular time shirt counters around town to-
schedule again maybe we did day.
make up an hour's sleep. And
we're not going to lose any more The weather started off In
as lobbyist for Franco Spain, but seriously impedes his politi-
and is on intimate terms wnn cal program.
the White House. And, after all, Truman was
Congressman Schafer of Mich- elected on the basis of his pro-
By HAL BOYLE
New York W) Once upon a time there was a great scientist
named Dr. Alfonso Cortex.
No mind like his had ever entered the world before.
The day he was born he asked the nurse If he could borrow tho
hospital's microscope. He wouldn t take his atternoon nap unless
the his mother ""g ,
leaning statesmen, Banners, cler
gymen, industrial leaders, gener
als, admirals and educators to
his laboratory. When they wero
all assembled, he walked into
the room carrying a large box.
"Gentlemen," he said, "in this
hoy T have 3 fi04 385 mnsaultoes.
I have bred, and cross-bred them
a. i iui live ywia lu wictru uui tucu
vicious instincts. I have read
them the Bible, the Koran, the
i Boju Talmud and passages from the
lege at 7 before he could play philosophers. They have been
hopscotch well. taught not to sting anyone who
4. in h In . , ni WllOliy gUUU. .C UlC
memory, for
ward or back
ward, including
index, he grad
uated from col-
were not going to lose any more ine weamer aiarieu on .n , Republican, also says he gram, not because of his ability giveaway quiz contest. They ' rf
of the same by further arguing such nice shape this morning . tu.t.ni'e Dnon f " Im; . ".. " i"y couldn't think un a ouestion he ever reared.
only trained moral mosquitoes
about it. At any rate, as our seems too bad there couldn t be , . ... w. .. imm.rii. , '"J"' answer The network
friend Paul Hauser indicated in another week of state fair.
a communication sent over, the
grandfather's clock in the court- Making Movies
house tower finally caught up
"See."
ately after his public statement . . finally paid him $5,000,000 to And with that he opened the
that General Vaughan should be CAPITAL NEWS CAPSULES Quit it was the only way to box, and out swarmed the mo-
HnllvwnnH IPiA new version court-martialed. Madame Chiang in Exile keep from going bankrupt. squitoes.
nouywooa i-i a new version rn.. .hn h3u. tolorf milh mj -ut v.. eu.,. ,.. . , j .. m.j
"louanit viiiong nai-oncii is wnn inai nest egg ine young uun i dc aiarmeu, Biuuea ur.
saaVn7 ugf il'tml tuV"oo Sran backed," wUh the enough mney S , S EE"
anT rami' Z- S fSJi JM" - . .. ' ....
The mosquitoes Degan settling
on his uneasy guests. For a mo-
with the citizenry again after of the Hollywood wolf has turn-
. . : .. .. ii i I... 41.., -1 ,.. " iiuraiciini
scrutaDie lace letting tne city punve jcoiciuaj ui j,rjbed
council think what it may. piunnea on me yuu-niiuw-w.iai
For instance, Col.
politically people. All she has to do, she
believes, is turn on the charm.
Wm. Lee, Friends who have discussed
In time every branch of hu-
Prophets Without Honor
South Gate, Calif. (A) Just aft- She
er her honeymoon Mrs. John
by buckshot-shooting youths who h t , t ' ,' itn' John' the Mad- man knowledge was illuminated ment there was a sudden silence,
tlted.uhe.r Ei? ' P?.reela"ln Maraion in Rome and was sub- ,m living in oriental splendor by hi. brilliance. Hi, invention, a st Winning, and then-
uiua a'"c ean unn 1 1 r rannmanripil onfi rip- at 41i Um U uilli. : . i
ol, WiC ui inn uuuuiiHii enaoiea men 10 live iony yean
ZTITZ br0thTLn"IH- M' Kun- S.he I""". drink 811 niht w"ht
me secuna -,i .im.H,rf nnH He. i u . . . .,
'nnn" iri in reen Hav "l,lul""' ' ok nuiuc ui nn uuuuiiait e enamea men to live iorty years
oops girl in recent days. ,. fir,t to,ri newsmen i,.tv., i 1 u v ou-
Doke said sne was warned tnat Earner, miss K.atnieen ulou- ,h . th .rmv -rarkHown rame . , u:u jonger, arm, an nigm wun
her marriage couldn't last be- nor, 19, had reported that she , slllt of the MaraBon jn .mu. . ' T ' getting a hangover. Get by
ill I l A 4. t . D D n . fire laincu, millUM
cause her bridegroom "had such too was a target for a B-B gun.
This Time It Was on the Snake
Wheeling, W. Va., U.R Charles Johnston was picking ber
ries when a copperhead sank its poisonous fangs Into his leg.
Calmly, he killed the serpent and went on with his work.
The leg was artificial.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Ouch!"
"Ouch! !"
"Ouch! ! !"
The famous people, slapping at
McGranery of Philadelphia Vr'Tto Then he emerged.
, VnV r Vi A . . iCnYrlht 4S)
In 1946, McGranery, assistant '
to the attorney general, was sore
at Truman because he wanted a
Circuit Court judgeship and Tru
man would only appoint him to
the District bench. At that time
McGranery also told this writer,
who was in his office when Gen
eral Vaughan phoned, that the
general sought to intervene in
WIS
DfWIlt Marktcml
Both Tito and Stalin Say
No Armed Strife, But-
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
ui Porelgn Affair Anilrsti
Marshall Tito, Yugoslavia's hard-boiled dictator, reaffirmed his
belief Friday that his country isn't headed for armed strife with
Russia despite the propaganda-war and economic-boycott by the
Moscow-controlled cominform.
At the same time, Pictro Nennl, a pro-communist Italian socialist
leader,
ternational communists who
. n 1. k.l. I M ff
IOM UICII UlUaS JlUIll 1T1UMUW. r m H,,l naM 1. IVTa...
h0,J . ,n 5en!'f " cuMe Orleans, Burton having been in
a d that the Russian policy for dic(ed f bribj
international communism pre-, Tod McGr.nW. a U. S.
eludes war among member,. msMc Judge ,,' Catholic.
Birds of a feather flock togeth- cherishM an ambitlon ,0 filI tne
next vacancy on the Supreme
Obviously the position is ex- Court. Shortly after Catholic
plosive and, as this column re- Justice Frank Murphy died, Mc-
marked the other day, Tito him- Granery even made a special
self probably wouldn't claim to trip to the White House,
be a good insurance risk. And with Justice Rutlcdge
It is the type of crisis which seriously ill. McGranery last
could produce a shooting war week denied that General Harry
but. as things stand at the mo- Vaughan had ever intervened in
ment. isn't expected to by most the Burton jury-bribing case in
observers. New Orleans.
OVER HEADS OF READERS
Company, Union Papers
Get 'Highbrow' Rating
By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEb'
Denver. Sept. 12 Some company newspapers and national
She has. of course, frequently union newspapers write over the heads of their readers, when
declared that she maintains a judged for ease of reading.
policy of non-aggression against This report waa made to the American Psychological associa
all countries communist and tion today by Dr. Edward T. Raney, of Wayne university, Detroit.
otherwise and will fight only He studied a large auto cor- ' ; ; rr
in self defense. She hasn't dif- poration's house organ, and the for"i'' ny sentence over 21
ferentiated between communist publication, of the United Auto wor"' .,ong "m more "-
t r . .... fliMilt- In roari T.iLcauHoa, mnM
ana non-communist nation, in Worker,, C.I.O., all going to the
this respect. ,ame employes.
However. Moscow has ldenti- He found the union paper,
fied its political ism as "inter- even more high-brow on word
national communism," as oppos- ing than the corporation's,
ed to the nationalism for which "The information was judged
Tito stands. The sovereignty of a, hard, or very hard to read,
as she talked. Almnet
xiHent I.ee even nut thic in ... ! l .:. hiir.in.hmir'i ilun 9nJ urn ill llieiaillt
writinlr while the official text u j I ' clgaretu " their f ra en maMe from
of h"s rDrimand sued icai? ' bodu"t PPP Into the they wanted by working one ,he laboratory, all except a stub-
. !i refrimana. specincaiiy room to make sure sne waJ a1 hour a day- general He walked out
cites the Maragon incident. riht , . . , Dorn general, ne waiKea out.
Despite these written state- "S1,, ... ..Toiirl,t,.. Th. u Brushing the mosquitoes f r 0 m
ments however Colonel Lee r- I , . T"ris The world-wide. His name was a his cheek and hi. medal,.
MTiZKt- stategnde0DartmentZr: word-In houhold. Dr. Cortex looked sadly
ly think his demotion resulted i rf'at8e0d0e "."'Jl! ?"! P60"10"1" reatd' But,.ln around hi, deserted laboratory.
, ,, ::jt TV,. are near'y o.ouu Kussian agents hm old age that great scientist ..tv. ,, u. .. ,.,uii..
from the Maragon incident The , Albania disguised as tourists, was unhappy. There mu' b me ,Y0l,!y
reversal had all the earmarks of Tn Frpnrh ., ,. B. w' good person in the world," he
a quick and powerful reminder Jnh' LTlctnT 2', "7?.r is st.iU .e.vil In. ' "AH my mosqultoe. can't
from Washington that he would storinff . hu ' olianliti worm, ne .am. x musi solve be wrong.
be ud for promotion again soon. .,... . me proDiem oi m
iiiis mat iiusi.uvv is senaing TO
Albania.
s problem of right and wrong." Jut then he felt something nn
So he went into his laboratory his neck.
lTr "lln- a"d 'ad there for five year,.
He summoned the
stated ra"JLj,."w:'
visit to Moscow
that Russia will
stop short of
war with Yugo
slavia. N e n n ib
said the Soviet
never will in
tervene "at thrf
point of the
bayonet" but
proposes that
the Yugoslav
people themselves "judge and
condemn the policies of Tito."
These and similar declara
tions have brought me an in
quiry as to whether there is a
communist policy that one com
munist nation won't go to war
with another.
I, Russia's hope for world
peace based on the idea that, if
all nations should turn commun
ist, there couldn't be wars
among them?
Russia hasn't announced such
policy in so many words
"Ouch!" cried the scientist.
Moral: Never trust an educat
world', ed Insect.
How much Ufe Insurance
should I have?
ficuit to read. Likewise, more
difficult 1, more than 13.1 syl
lables per 100 words. Dr. Flesch
I, a consultant for the Associa
ted Press on readibility of news.
"The very things management
would like Its employes to
nation under international he said, "when It was like the Know, asm ur. naney, are
communism rests in Moscow. material found in a quality mag- being pitched at a level far over
The marshal has refined tn ajine. nrh as Harner's." their heads."
Now, you can easily determine your
own individual life insurance re
quirements through a new device
developed by Prudential which
in sail
surrender nis country s sov
ereignty, and on that point
hinge, the current conflict be
tween Russia and Yugoslavia.
He rated the company papers Dr. Carol S. Bellows. Detroit,
a, 6S percent hard to read and recommended that executives
the union at 74 percent. He said learn to read faster. She told of
the union papers covered a 80 exeoutives who In 10 week,
wider and more national field. training Increased their average
The ratings were based on lest reading speeds from Just under
sume that there can be no formulae of Dr. Rudolf ncsch, 300 words a minute to almost
armed HrU between loyal "in- A'ew York psychologist. Dr. 473.
Pacific BmintNO
J18 State Stmet
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