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4 Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, September 20. 1949
BY BECK
Wives
Gold Price Inflation?
Recently the senate banking committee investigating
the economic power of labor heard Admiral Ben Moreell,
president of the Jones & Laughlin Steel company quote
John L. Lewis, czar of the coal miners as saying that labor
would have to "take over the government" if the practice
of government-aided labor dispute settlements were con
tinued, referring to the growing practice of government
boards laying down the terms of settlement in major labor
disputes.
The miners' union leader, Moreell said, contended that
over a long period of years more men favorable to manage
ment would become members of government fact-finding
and arbitration boards than are sympathetic to labor's
viewpoint. "Since the government appoints the boards,"
Moreell quoted Lewis as saying, "the only way labor could
protect itself would be to take over the government."
In the present labor turmoil the government has appoint
ed as mediators men favorable to unions and still many of
their recommendations are rejected. They have a union
loving president and administration and labor has prac
tically taken over the government. But that doesn't sat
isfy labor chiefs "want what they want when they want
it. The public doesn t count except to pungle up.
The Missouri Pacific strike is for "featherbedding" re
jected by the presidential fact finders. The coal walkout
is because the southern coal operators refused to continue
royalty payments at consumers' expense for the miners'
welfare fund, their contract having expired. The threat
ened steel strike is for a similar welfare fund and pensions
at companies' expense. The ordered Ford strike, the elec
tricians' strike are also for fourth round wage boosts plus
welfare benefits paid by employers.
The coal strike involves 480,000 miners, plus those in
other industries dependent on coal, the steel strike and
auto strikes will idle more than 2,000,000. And that in a
labor dominated government, with a president refusing to
utilize the Taft-Hartley law to halt the paralyzing of in
dustry and protect public welfare. Labor czars are there
for more powerful than the government.
Traffic in Capitol Group Area
In the heart of Salem, the state capitol group of build
ings will conform to the general, modern pattern set by
construction of the capitol itself, completed in 1939. In
working' out plans for future growth of the building
group, the new state planning commission is trying to an
ticipate locations for future state structures. Certain
recommendations have to be made to the state and city
as a result
At the commission's Monday meeting, a pattern for
traffic in the general area of the capitol group was rec
ommended. In on case, one of these recommendations
would change the one-way southbound traffic flow desig
nated for Summer street. Summer street eventually would
be split by a mall in front of the capitol, so general traffic
flow into the mall section might cause confusion.
The Salem traffic study, as presented by State Highway
Engineer Baldock, is flexible enough, despite what critics
had to say, to permit adjustment of traffic flow to the
needs of the community. Adjustments such as those sug
gested by the planning commission can be taken up with
the state highway department in conference. Then their
joint recommendations can be mad to the city council for
Salem to act on.
A plan as broad and as long-range as the so-called Bal
dock traffic plan will tak years to bring about. Adjust
ments of on sort or another are bound to arise. The capi
tol planning commission's recommendations are merely an
example.
So no undue concern need be created by the suggested
changes in traffic in the capitol group area. Only after
joint agreement with the highway department and the
city government would adjustments in the traffic plan be
accomplished.
In other words, no changes will be made without proper
nd adequate study. Then the adjustments will be direct
ed toward the needs of the expanded state grounds and
the city itself.
Labor Czars in the Saddle
Governors of the International Monetary Fund last
week-end, befor the devaluation of the British pound by
the labor government, voted unanimously to start a study
of a proposed higher price for gold, to which the United
States assented reluctantly. Inflation of gold prices has
long been agitated by the gold mining industry and by
American inflationists who point to the billions in profit
which would result to the immense stock of gold held by
th United States, recalling the profit made when Presi
dent Roosevelt revalued gold early in his administration.
Secretary of the Treasury Snyder immediately declar
ed: "There is not going to be any change in the dollar value
of gold. That is positive and will remain positive." His
implication was that this country can retain its $35-an-ounc
price for gold without regard to the Fund's possible
future position. Since Mr. Snyder has said that devalu
ation of currency by other countries might ease Europe's
dollar difficulties.
It will be remembered, however, that Chancellor of the
Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps on nine different occasions
publicly pledged that th pound would not be devalued.
But he reversed himself in the hope that devalution would
make possible a solution of Britian's problems.
So if the inflation pressure becomes strong enough,
Rnyder, like Cripps, may reverse himself, or resign and
permit, some one else to put through the program.
live in a very unstable world and with the trend run
ning to all kinds of experimental tinkering with economic
laws in the furtherance of statism. There is no telling what
our politicians will not attempt to secure through pressure
for votes. Historical experience in the past seems to be
ignored in the futile drive for Utopian mirages.
Fire Hunts Out the Chief
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Wait and See
By DON UPJOHN
There was a minor flying saucer flurry in Salem yesterday when
several people are said to have seen one of the objects cutting up
its antics. The craze seems to come and go and pops up at various
times in various parts of the country until now the nation has
been about covered with localities where said saucers have been
Far be it
seen
from us to show
doubtful credul
ity about all of
these flying vis
i tat ions. But
there's one ex
tremely unusual
feature about
the whole busi
ness which chal
lenges some ex
planation. W e
remember as a
9
"Buck" Bradley, High street
store owner, it seems is an in
ventive genius. Not long ago the
Bradleys and the Gardner
Knapps took to the mountains
for some huckleberry picking
and the Bradleys gathered in
their gallons in no time. Buck
had devised a simple huckelber
ry picking gadget. He took an
ordinary quart container, cut
down one edge of it and soldered
onto it a row of nails, each a
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
'Ernie' Bevin Got Jovial
Reception at Senate Lunch
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Over steak and apple pie, British and American
leaders kidded each other merrily the other day at an off-the-record
luncheon given by the senate foreign relations committee.
Senator Vandenberg set the mood by greeting British Foreign
Minister Ernest Bevin with a "Breezy: "Hello, Ernie."
Later Chair-
to enable them to rent or buy
decent homes under current sky
high housing costs.
And the public housing bill
recently passed by Congress
doesn't help this middle-income
group, who earn from $2000 to
$3750 a year. It provides rental
housing and slum clearance only
for families in lower-income
brackets.
The Sparkman bill Is aimed
primarily at helping these $2000
$3750 families, chiefly war vets,
by direct government low-in-
little lifted up a little lighter." terest loans under a cooperative
This playful reference to Brit- arrangement similar to the gov
ain's success at lightening the ernment's financing of rural
U.S. treasury wasn't missed by electric cooperatives.
Bevin. However,
"I have heard it said that a parliament
blood transfusion is good for
both the donor and the donee,"
he retorted with a wry smile. "It the swearing-in of Tom Clark
relieves the donor of excess to the supreme court the real
blood and relieves the donee by estate- lobby struck its Import
putting new blood in his veins. nt section from the house bill.
"The only worry is whether However, the senate is still to
the blood is of the same type, be heard from, and forthright
But there is no concern about Senator John Sparkman of Ala-
the blood of our two countries bama is confident he has the
being of the same type." votes to reverse the house sell-
out to the real estate lobby.
Then the British foreign sec-
retary referred to King George JOHNSON FIRES MORE
in, wnose iryanny started me
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
man Tom Con
nally of Texas
pretended to be
solemn, but the
twinkle in his
eye gave him
away, when he
called upon
Bevin for the
usual "few
marxs.
"W hen ever Ifc
the British a
come over here," Connally de
clared in his introduction, "we
always feel a little elevated, a
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time when 340 members were U).JftU7t'C ffSI IlkAhl
absent most of them attending MQCKtNLIt S IULUVUV
Democracies May Make
Separate Japanese Peace
Forthright Secretary of De-
"rl ...ill t:
"There is a picture of George
. .. . .? ate 30,000 more civilian em
ployees from the federal pay-
Revolutionary war.
Ill hanging on the wall of the
By DeWITT MocKENZIE
((At Forelfn Afl.tr Analyst)
The urgency of concluding a Japanese treaty has developed the
startling possibility that the democracies may get ahead with tha
Job without Russia, unless a quick solution of the disagreement
with Moscow can be found. .
Should this happen, it would, of course, mean two distinct
treaties ano-
foreign office," twinkled Bevin. " V yl itarian at
"Every morning I used to lift up ""', "f'ng several thousand
kid when someone pitched a rock little distance apart. By the sim
in the air he'd holler "What goes pie expedient of scraping his
up must come down." This boy- comblike affair through the
ish aphorism is just as true to- huckleberry bushes he filled his
day. Some day when one of bucket in no time including
these flynig saucers comes down leaves. The leaves didn't both
so it can be seen and analyzed er Buck, however. He simply
from a safe vantage point on the talked and the leaves departed,
ground it'll be time enough to
Playful Preachers
Reinholds, Pa. W) A minister
who is also a state senator is the
best Pennsylvania Dutch liar in
my eyes and thank George III.
For, if it hadn't been for him,
ther stone added
to the wall di
viding the total-
a t e s
working on public relations. n1 he democ-;
Deep cuts in defense Davrolls. racies.
... . i '. l incidentally, will lead to the The stalemate!
me umiea oiaies wouxan i nave , , , . , ... t,iB..
, i i . u .. dismissal of a lot of the mill- hinges on Rus-
enough to help win the war." tary and civilian gumshoe work- s ms.ste n c el
, . . ers making loyalty checks due that the treaty!
But Bevin was dead serious to tne fact that not so m fed be concluded byl
as ne aaaea: "There are some i ,m , " j , ih ni Four"
who believe we are still living checked. Foreign Minis- "' Mekii.
iTT3 ,waw
give credit to these hallucina
tions.
in the age of George III. It has
been spread around that we are
an old nation, but I want to
tell you we are not old. We are
young and vigorous."
ICopyrliht lt
ters Council (America, Britain,
Tough Harvesting
wise in gardening ways, finds hese Parts-
the native river bottom sou in
Fined for Mistreating a Rat
Norwich, Enr. (U.R) Two men were fined 10 shillings
each here for mistreating a rat.
They tied the rodent to a fence.
($2)
The Rev. Frank Ruth of Bern-
her garden patch just outside ville won the first annual con-
the city limits on east Isabella test of the Pennsylvania Dutch
street, especially suited to the Liars club yesterday by telling
growth of cabbages. Last Fri- story about a mean old tomcat
day she harvested two mam- who couldn't be killed,
moth heads, the larger weighing When ropes and guns didn't
18 pounds, the other, 16 Mi eliminate the critter, Mr. Ruth
pounds. Girths were 40 and 38 said in dialect, a posse went out
inches respectively. Her entire after him, cut off his head and,
cabbage patch contains approxi- buried him under a pile of rocks,
mately 200 sizeable heads, none Three days later the old cat
weighing less than five and one- trotted on home, carrying his
half pounds, she estimates. All head in his mouth,
are of the Flat Dutch variety. This was judged to be the
Unable to harvest the giants by best whopper of the day, but an-
ordinary means, Mrs. Lindahl other minister came in second,
was forced to wield an axe in He is the Rev. Clarence Rahn of
order to chop through the stalks. Temple.
Seafarer Is Ready to Believe
Rats Leave Ship About to Sink
Seattle U.R Robert Rayfield of Seattle Is convinced of the
truth to the seafarers' superstition that rats will leave a ship
which is about to sink.
Rayfield, owner and captain of the 65-foot charter boat Mer
cer, said he observed a rat scamper across the deck of the
vessel and dive into Puget sound to swim for shore Saturday
evening. Half an hour later, the vessel struck a dead-head in
the water and sank.
Rayfield and Donald Hines. also of Seattle, put ashore safely
in a small skiff.
During the lunch. Secretary
of Stat Acheson recalled how
he and Bevin had met in the AnrAii i niis t in
elevator one evening on the way CARLY OREGON LAND LAWS
to a crucial meeting with Soviet
Foreign Minister Vishinsky at
the Paris conference. Leaving
the elevator, the U.S. secretary
of state and the British foreign
minister walked arm in arm
down the long corridor singing
"The Red Flag."
Joseph Gervais Led
French Prairie Settlers
Russia and France), whereas the
United States and Britain insist
that it be handled by the Far
Eastern Commission. This com-'
mission comprises the eleven
countries that fought against
Japan The United States, Rus
sia, Britain, China, The Philip
pines, The Netherlands, Cana
da, Australia, India and New
Zealand.
The Russian attitude may be
explained largely by the fact
that the veto is permitted in
council proceedings, whereas it
is not used in the commission.
On one thing there appears to
be unanimity the need of get
ting ahead with the job.
The necessity of early action
was emphasized recently by
General Douglas MacArthur for
the second time.
On the top of that, the con
versations in Washington last
week between Britsh Foreign.
Secretary Bevin and Secretary
of State Acheson reached the
conclusion that a Japanese
treaty is long overdue.
And Soviet Foreign Minister
Andrei Y. Vishinsky, who is
heading the Russian delegation
to the new United Nations -
meeting opening Tuesday at
Lake Success, is expected to
press for a Japanese treaty to
By OSWALD WEST
IXThilA nnmhai rf Frnrh PannHian hnnfars and tranriArt in-
This brought a warning from ciuding Degie, DesOportes, Dupre, Dubrienil, Rivet, Pichett and
Senator Elbert Thomas, Utah Montouri together with their Indian wives, settled near Cham
democrat, that Acheson had poeg French Prairie, at an early date, they could hardly be
better not let the FBI know classed permament settlers, for they were hero today and gone
about that. .
"Oh, I can protect him," of- Th ;i hitler the men later. Not before the oassaee. bv Press f?r Japanese treaty 1
fered Bevin. "Mr. Acheson did- who became home builders and congress, of the D. L. C. law, mi Z tne toryBn MlnlV
n't know the words. He just devei0ped a community spirit could Oregon settlers acquire le- " fc .A.
went aloni 'tr-l-la-l.-ln u . . " , ", iu. ,., ..l i.i Secretary Acheson has indica-
- - - - wmcn neipea 'V l,t . . . ed hat Britain and the United
for established government stateJ may try agaill to end the
V.P.'s "DOMESTIC AFFAIRS" were led by Joseph Gervais, Gervais proved up on his two-year-old deadlock over who
Senator Connally came up Etienne Lucier, Louis La Bonte, ciaim thus securing patent ghould draft the treaty,
with another subtle crack about Pierre Belleque and Michel La only to see it sold for taxes in . .
the widow from St. Louis when Framboise. his old age. And what if this effort fails?
he introduced Vice President
Barkley.
"Barkley used to be a mem
ber of the foreign relations com
mittee," explained Connally,
"but recently he has taken more
interest in domestic affairs."
OPEN FORUM
Knowledge of Russia Lacking
To the Editor Our government is spending large sums of money
trying to tell the people of Russia about life in the United States
of America. Yet. as a people, we are surprisingly ignorant of the
various phases of life in the USSR and seem to show little curiosity.
How much do Americans know of the inhabitants of the Rus
sian Empire? What do we know
of thp relative proportions of potically by an actively antl
the 150-odd races each speaking Christian minority, with the
its own distinct language or United States and its freedom
dialect with but a slight knowl- of religion.
edRe of any other, even of the The old saying, "Scratch .a
official Russian language? Russian and you will find a
Can our people contrast the Tartar" is absolutely true as to
cohesive effect of the national- "
. a uu aBome, u appears, never se- As the signs now read, the
Gervais came overland with cured patent to his claim evi- question then will arise whether
the Hunt party (1811), later dently having disposed of his the Allies represented on the
trapping for the Northwest and "squatters right" to others who Far Eastern Commission, headed
Hudson's Bay companies. acquired patent. by American and Britain, shall
In the year 1828, and upon Lucier proved up and secured go ahead and make a treaty
the advice of Dr. McLaughlin, patent to his lands, as did La with Japan without Russia.
MnA ..((l.manf Atl O fraft IPramKniea Rul Dalliinii. . . t .. . . , . .
The senator from Texas lost 7 w iTmer.e roUom Tand enty' 1 18$" rSZ
the tfmeVnXMajorvTe'ader lust nrth f thC ?W V" a"d departed fr California FaV Fasten countHes 1 k
l.,Tl lL . i"8 to ne Wheatland ferry. never to return. His Indian Australia and The Philippines.
LaBonte, also of the Hunt wife who, under the D.L.C. law which had more to do with the
party, made settlement on the came into 320 acres or one half Japanese war than did Russia,
lands lying on the opposite side of the claim, secured patent to shall be left out of the treaty
of the river from Gervais on her share. making,
the Yamhill river near the pres-
Scott Lucas rose to speak. The
speeches had begun to drag, and
Lucas suggested: "Mr. Chair
man, I think it is about time for
us to go. I don't have anything
to say."
"Well, if you feel that way,
you can go!" snapped Connally.
ent town of Dayton.
Lucier, another Hunt man,
took a claim on the east banks
ly spoken and read English lan- rd- f behavior. If our people good Nebraska steak."
guage with the immiscible ef- u
feet of the many languages tor Gnf" an a"d Par-
nvuiai it mat ui (lie viuiucu
Lucas reddened, but went f the Willamette near the
ahead with a two-minute speech. Marion county approach to the
The only other difference was Newberg bridge,
over the steak. Senator Bourke Belleque, a Hudson's Bay
Hickenlooper of Iowa announc- man filed on lands which join
ed that they were eating "good ed those 0f Lucier on the east.
Iowa steak. LaFramboise, an Astor man.
But Senator Ken Wherry of came on the "Tonquin," but la
Nebraska piped up: "They're ter served as a brigade leader
not as good as Nebraska steaks, for the Hudson's Bay company.
Next time you come, we'll serve He settled on the west side of
the Willamette opposite Cham- owes or keep.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Vocal Star Will Return
To Old School as Success
By HAL BOYLE
New York W Everyone daydreams of going back to his old
school as a famous success.
Few do. The rainbow called renown eludes most of us. And
many a graduate hesitates to visit his college in after years
ior icar me norarian will sanaoag him for the $1.35 he still
spoken in Russia, where the of
ficial language is less and less Hord' and subsequent Russian
understood, save by officials and
colonists, as one goes east be
yond the Slavic regions.
Then there Is the contrast be
tween the uniformity of Ameri-
Keattla, Sept. It (UJ Battalion Fir Thief Parka AcUmi
was unsuccessful la finding the fire tha 11th floor ef a
Reattla hotel, tha fir fonnd him.
A smouldering garbage ean eama ap tha hotel's dumb-waiter
after tha mystified (hlef onknowlnfly had leaned against
Ike aitofluU ub-walUr feaHea.
history, they might gradually
come to understand with what
type of human being we find
ourselves obliged to deal.
And while our high I.Q.'s and
4htr Hmirprt mrm iniHnff fhal
can fashions and the distinctive ctm,mnism mav be taught in
costumes current in Russia, from our coll.-, 6 ,nfv op long
111 cut European garments in , h , their fuIIV c.bra.
the west through th. pictur- 1ion, to ,k wnat happens in
esque costumes of the oasis Communist countries to teach
dwellers to the rough coverings , wn0 ventllrt objectively to
of the nomads. examine non-Communistic the-
A has been frequently point- ories of life and government?
ed out. Russian "laws" are edicts If wt could picture all the
designed to enable the rulers Russian classes and races In
the more readily to impose their their everyday costumes, from
will on the people; whereas the Baltic to' the Pacific, we
American laws are enacted by a might begin to comprehend what
majority of the people to pro- we have to face,
tect everyone's rights and in- Such facts should be taught
terests. In all schools, shown periodi-
Compare that enormous ex- rally on the screen and told
pans of territory which is Rus- over the radio,
sia, with an estimated popula- V. GRANT SMITH,
tion of 180 million, ruled des- Washington, DC.
'Silent' Movies Coming Back
New Tork UK Silent movies are making a eomebark.
thanks to the noiseless popcorn bag. It Is porous and cannot be
blown up and exploded or filled with water and dropped from
balMBjr.
nneff
MIDDLE-INCOME HOUSES All had taken Indian wives
Next big housing battle in and thus produced a bountiful
Congress will occur when the crop of half-breed children,
senate considers the Sparkman ...
"middle income" housing bill. The land laws adonted by our , , 1
which recently emerged from Provisional Government regu- .ut. i. ... .u?
ing a book out
too long.
But Eleanor
Steber is going
back to a happy
the house badly mangled by the lated occupation only.
real estate lobby, with the aid
of their friend. GOP Represen
tative Jesse Wolcott of Michi
gan, plus a deft assist from
American-Laborite Vito Marcan-
tonio of New York.
The early settlers acquired a
"squatters' right," which was
duly respected but carried no
title to the soil.
When the United States as
sumed dominion over the Ore-
Hew Eng land
Conservatory of
Music in Boston.
S h e .went
there first in the
1930s as a prom-
example of the younger genera
tion of home-trained American
signers. She believes It is no
longer necessary for would-be
opera stars to study abroad.
What few people, except those gon Territory, it became the
directly affected, realize is that owner of all lands therein, but
almost one-third of the nation's the provisions of its general
families have incomes sufficient land laws did not apply until
$ 1 000 Dream Comes True
Wenona. HI. (4i Dream lo come true. Insists George Brun
ski his did te the tune ef tl.OOt.
The money has been forwarded, he said, ta Mrs. Pauline
Shops of Central Point, Ore., sole beneficiary of the estate of
a eoal miner named Matt Vallerlch.
Brunskl said Mrs. Shops had visited the home of the eoal
miner In hop of finding money that folks here believed
Vallerlch kept hidden. She returned horn without th
money.
Brunskl said h dreamed of finding torn money In the toes
f aa old pair ef brewn shoes. His friends scoffed at his
story, he said, but h kept looking and finally found soma
brown shoes that Vallerlch owned.
Out of th toea he dug a wadded money belt containing nine
I1M bill aad free 11.
"We have everything here the
young singer needs, including
. . . , biie hiu, auuillg:
"Of course, we could use a few
more opera houses.'
"The American singer now is
isina vocal student from Wheel- better-rounded and more versa-
Ing, West Va. Her parents had tile he has good musicianship
been able to scrape together only end can act as well as sing."
$600 to finance her education. And being better-rounded no
A scholarship enabled her to longer means a salt-shaker
remain after the $800 was gone, waistline.
and Eleanor worked as a wait- "Opera singers look a lot dif-
ress to pay her other expenses. ferent than they did 2S years
ago," laughed Miss Steber. "We
Today at 33 the lyric soprano have a stream-lined crowd at the
is a prima donna at the, Metro- Met now. And that is an Ameri
politan Opera and a concert and can influence, too. Opera goers
radio star. She has a six-figure like to see graceful and hand
annual income and six figure some performers."
incomes begin at $100,000. On this count Miss Steber can
The reason Eleanor is going afford complacence. She is
back to the Conservatory is to pretty, has a shape and keeps it
award two scholarships she in shape,
founded. And what is she proudest of?
"I want to help some young "That 1 came up the American
artists coming along." she said, way." she said. "We have ev--
"Just as I was helped." erything here but so few peo-
Miss Steber is aa outstanding pi realize it."