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4 Salem, Oregon, Saturday, September 24, 1949
Davidson An Oregonian?
The Oregon Democrat, published by Monroe Sweetland,
publisher of the Newport News, now democratic commit
teeman for Oregon, formerly executive secretary of the
Oregon Commonwealth Federation (1937-41) and a king
pin in that left-wing organization, contains the following
comment on Assistant Secretary of the Interior Davidson,
now campaigning the northwest in behalf of the Columbia
Valley Administration:
"Oregon! C. Girard "Jebby" Davidson, assistant secretary of
the interior, it billed tor five important appearances in the west
this month to present different phases of interior department
policy to meetings and convention. On September 17 he meets
with the Izaak Walton League at Bend; on the 22nd with the
lumber and sawmill workers in Portland on timber policy; on
tha 23rd at Idaho Falls with a reclamation group; on September
26th before th educational conference of the National Catho
lic Welfare Conference in Portland and that same evening at
Spokane for the Western Mining Conference. He is also listed
among the distinguished guests at the Western States Demo
cratic Conference at San Francisco."
The article is a transparent attempt to make an Ore
gonian out of "Jebby" who came from Louisiana to take
a job at Bonneville, evidently grooming him as a demo
cratic candidate for high office, or at least for Oregon's
member of the CVA, for which he has been frequently
mentioned. Calling Davidson an Oregonian has bobbed up
in several inspired news articles in the press in recent
months.
. As a matter of fact, "Jebby" answers the definition of
what Governor Tom Dewey in his last year's presidential
campaign in Oregon called bureaucratic "carpet baggers"
dominating federal service in the northwest, whom he
promised to get rid of if he was elected to the presidency.
Dewey said at Bend, May 19, 1948: "There must be an end
to carpetbaggers who live elsewhere administering projects of
the west. Such administration should be in hands of compe
tent people who live in the region where the projects are being
built."
Mr. Davidson has been in federal service since his gradu
ation from college. His first job was as attorney for the
TVA in 1934, and was switched to the Bonneville Power
Administration as attorney in Portland in 1940-42, and
later was general counsel for BPA at Washington. His
biography, as compiled by himself in Who's Who in Amer
ica, follows:
Attorney for TVA, headquarters Knoxvllle, Tex., 1934-37;
attorney with U.S. Housing Authority, Lafayette, La., Septem
ber, 1939-September, 1940; consulting attorney with Bonneville
Power Administration, Portland, Ore., 1940-42; consultant with
Office of Production Management, Washington, D.C., 1940-42;
general counsel Bonneville Power Administration, Portland,
Ore., January, 1943-June, 1946; assistant general counsel War
Production board, Washington, D.C. (loan) during part of
1944-45.
Assistant secretary of the Interior, Washington, DC, since
June, 1946; state legislative chairman. La. Parent Teachers' as
sociation, 1938-40; member governor's advisory committee,
state of Louisiana, to study school systems, 1940; member Amer
ican Bar association, Louisiana; State Bar association, Oregon;
Urban League (Portland, Ore.), democrat, Methodist, club, Port
land City Center. Home (temporary) 3407 O street N.W.,
Washington.
The CVA is a Washington bureaucratic inspiration and
Its chief advocates are federal office holders seeking to ex
pand their power over the northwest and Mr. Davidson,
like the others, all making their chief occupation a political
campaign issue for 1950 instead of attending to their work,
their expenses as well as salaries paid for by the taxpayers.
Russia Has the Atomic Bomb
President Truman's surprise announcement that the
Russians have exploded an atomic bomb in the USSR and
therefore has solved the problem of its production earlier
than expected, has emphasized the necessity for an effec
tive international atomic control, which the Russians have
consistently resisted thus far. How the blast was ascer
tained remains a secret.
The United States still holds a vast lead over Russia
In the field of atomic weapons, and top American officials
say that in all probability will never lose it. Bombs pro
duced today are many times more destructive than those
used against Japan four years ago. Still, Russia's im
proved air bombers could deliver its bombs on targets 2000
miles or more from her most advanced bases by sacrificing
bomber crews, which could bring them to the Pacific
Northwest.
Professor Otto Hann, German scientist, regarded as the
discoverer of nuclear fission and a Nobel award winner,
declared that "the news that Russia has the atomic bomb
is good news," and means that there will be no war, as
neither nation will dare to use it, the same as with poison
gas. It is to lie hoped he is right, but no one can solve Rus
sian psychology.
Immediately following Mr. Truman's announcement,
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky in the
United Nations assembly after the usual vitriolic outburst
damning the western powers, called on the big five powers
for a ban on atomic weapons and the conclusion of a peace
pact among themselves. Since the organization of the
UN the western powers have continually attempted such
efforts, only to be blocked at every turn by Russian vetoes
and the cold war being waged by the Soviet for territorial
aggrandizement.
But the United States in retaliation could drop atomic
bombs which she has on targets anywhere in Russia,
from high-flying planes based in North America. These
are estimates of military men who believe the Soviet's
best bomber is comparable in performance with the obso
lescent American R-29.
One certain result of the president's discloseure will be
the speeding up of the atomic defense program, it inter
cepted, its radar detection screen, its ground-to-air inter
cepter missiles, its launching bases and other vital essen
tials. Only adequate prepararedness will preserve peace
for Russian pledges are mere scraps of paper to be violated
s expediency dictates.
Cat Lives, Executioner Dies
Alencon, France WN-Henri Vlllette, T, set out to drown a
kitten.
He threw the kitten Into the water, then lost his balance
nd fell In himself.
The klttcsj crawled out. VUletle drowned.
BY BECK
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Lewis Called Coal Strike
Despite Fund Payments
By DREW PEARSON
Washington When John L. Lewis sent the strike call down
the line "no welfare payments, no work" it was one of the big
gest hoaxes he has ever pulled on both his miners and the
American public.
For, actually, the welfare payments were being made. Not a
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
single northern
op e r a t o r had
suspended pay
men t s . They
were living up
to the spirit of
the contract ev
en when no con
tract existed.
And in the
south only three
or four opera- Kl TTk
tnrs. inrluriinff
the Island """ ""
Creek and the Pond Creek com
fear
day with the man he revolted
against Harry Truman.
This was their first meeting
since Truman secretly summon
ed Taylor to the White House
and begged him to stay true to
the democratic party.
But the president seemed to
hold no grudges. He was stand
ing in front of his desk when
Taylor was ushered into the of
fice and gestured as if to wel
come back the prodigal son.
After a cordial handshake.
panies of West Virginia, had the president escorted Taylor
stopped the payments. over to a globe of the world and
In other words, Lewis penal- gave it a spin to Iran.
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
'He Did No Wrong' Is Epitaph
Not Covering Enough for Man
BY REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
Rector. St Paul' Gpuicopai Church
An ancient tomb bears tribute to its occupant In these words:
"He did no wrong." This simple epitaph reads like it might have
been intended for a eulogy in four words.
I am quite sure the hearts of the descendants of this ancient
person were filled with pride when they read the inscription.
They should not have been
pleased with such an epitaph, phons, completely happy and
When Saint Paul finished his satisfied with themselves if they
work, he did not claim to have succeed in passing on to society
done no wrong, but he did claim only that which has been hand
to have "fought a good fight, to ed to them.
Having aDSoroea an me in
fluence of the home, the school,
the community, and the church,
they think they are doing a
whale of a job if they get by
without becoming a charge on
the community.
"He did no wrong" is a good
enough epitaph for them.
A dynamo is a machine that
takes energy from falling water,
transforms it into electrical en
ergy, and makes it available for
the benefit og multitudes of
ized all the operators who were
cooperating which was 99 per
cent of them on the false pre
text that the southern operators
were not contributing to the wel
fare fund.
"I'm expecting a visit from
the Shah of Persia," explained
Truman. Then he mused, half to
himself: "I'll probably have to
send my plane for him."
You'll probably be criticiz-
ChiLDPEN WITH GENIUS RATINGS.
BY 0009 OF 4.T01, COME FROM
MIDDLE CLASS HOMES,'
Itl " ... HL
GIRLS, PERFUME HELPS
A KISS, SAY 3 0F4 MEN
OW WIN BY A Hose,
saivoy ecroftKy. ,
HtlV VOK).
V YOu'PE OVER 63
ODDff ARE 1 IN 4
YOU'RE WORKING-.'
Real fact, however, is that ed, warned Taylor.
Lewis wanted an excuse for a "I'll be criticized whatever I
general walkout without leav- do," retorted the president,
ing himself open to possible As they sauntered back to the
court action by personally call- presidential desk, the senator
ing a strike. Thus, he made it from Idaho congratulated Tru-
appear that a great many oper- man on nis great victory.'
have finished his
course, and to V
have kept the
faith."
While others
were busy keep
ing away from
temptation and
out of trouble,
and trying to
save their own
souls, Saint Paul
was out doing onm sin
n mii(h ran.
structive work for the Master. People- The siphon may delive
that "doing no wrong" was just ,he waler to 4ne Pwer Plant'
a bv-oroduct. In other words. but he dynamo makes possible
Saint Paul' ereat nnrnnse in world of blessings.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
All That Ordinary Citizen
Can Do About Bomb Is Pray
By HAL BOYLE
New York ) Naturally everyone today is wondering what
he should do about the atom bomb.
The best possible advice to follow Is don't buy one now on a
rising market.
Why have one around the house at all? You can't tune in a
D as e d a ii pro- w
gram on it like
you can on a
television set. It
is too heavy to
throw at a cat
and too big to
fire at a burglar.
And the resale
or trade-in val
ue of a used
atom bomb is
is p r a c t i cally
zero.
Nope, you might as well turn
and embarrass his old friend and dIe the Russians," declared the the whole matter over to. the nothing but an affront to the
ators were withholding the roy
alty payments on coal tonnage.
The real reasons for Lewis's
tactics in fomenting the strike at
this particular time were1
'I was happy to see you elect
ed," declared Taylor, earnestly.
The president replied that he
had been through the same
thing before in Missouri where
he wasn't supposed to have a
chance. But bv soma to the nen-
1. He has always wanted to pie with his case, he always
bargain in the fall as the cold won.
season sets in rather than in the The presidential campaign,
spring when demand for coal remarked Truman, "was the
diminishes. same thing as before only on a
2. Lewis has spent the welfare bigger scale."
portion of his welfare-pension When the subject of more re
plan so extravagantly that he cent politics was brought up,
has to have more money. It has Taylor observed: "I have voted
not been the fault of the oper- with you on every domestic is
ators that this fund has been sue, but I still can't agree with
dissipated. your get-tough foreign policy."
3. Lewis wanted to humiliate lnat the only way to nan-
Bl BorU
I think the average man will
be glad to let it go at that. For
he has become bored to death
with the atom bomb.
He is annoyed at seeing what
was to be the century of the
common man turned Into the
century of the big firecrack
er. And he isn't happy to know
that the $64 question of his gen
eration well may be, "where
do we blow from here, boys?"
The plain truth is that the
atomic era to date has been
now enemy,
Murray.
The
CIO Chief Phil president with conviction.
Later, as the reoriented rebel
from Idaho departed, the presi-
president's fact-finding uc".' ?'"u "llcr mm' aee yu
isnntn has al- 5al".
(Copyright !
international diplomats or tne Hienitv of man. It has heon
United Nations, whose theme goose-pimple period ever since
song is: "You show me your the mortal mushroom shadowed
life was not merely to do no
wrong, but to do something con
structive, to give his life to
the extending of the Kingdom
of God.
He became a saint doing some
thing rather than doing nothing,
doing something good rather
than simply keeping out of
trouble.
If you are determined to give
to the world more than the
world has given to you, even
at the risk of making some mis
takes, you may have the char
acteristics of a dynamo. But a
dynamo would fly to pieces
without control.
Religion is the element which
stabilizes, balances, and controls
human enernv. With this con-
Siphons are tubes which are trol, one has the good possibility
important and useful, but they of being able to deserve the
deliver only that which is given Pauline epitaph, "I have fought
them to carry. They create no- a good fight, I have finished my
thing. Many people are like si- course, I have kept the faith."
OK to Speed to Beat the Stork
New York W) You can speed on New York streets if
you're racing the stork. That's the decision of a magistrate's
court.
An Industrial designer. Burton M. Sloane, was driving his
wife, Mae, to a hospital recently. On Riverside drive, Patrol
man Francis McDermott stopped the car.
The designer explained where he was going, and the police
man led the way siren screaming. But at the hospital, he
handed Sloane a traffic ticket.
A daughter was born.
Magistrate Morris Rothenberg decided that a prospective
father Is justified In stepping on the gas. He dismissed the
charge.
board in the steel dispute has al
ready recommended JO cents an
hour in welfare-pension benefits
for steel-workers. This is rela
tively the same amount as Lew
is gets from the coal operators.
Therefore, if Lewis, by strik
ing now, is able to wangle even
two or three cents more royalty
out of the coal operators he will
be able to preen his feathers at
Murray and boast that he is a
much better friend of labor.
Meanwhile and to satisfy Lew
is's vanity, the entire nation will
soon be short of coal despite the
fact that all but three or four of
the coal operators were continu
ing to make payments into the
miners welfare-pension fund ev
stockpile,
mine."
and I'll show you
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Madame Sun Yat-Sen
Honored by Communists
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
(iP) Foreign Affairs Anilyitl
One of the most sensational political developments of the whole
Chinese civil war is the appearance of Madame Sun Yat-Sen as an
honored figure at the creation of the communist "people's republic
of China" in the old capital ot Peiping.
Madame Sun is widow of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, father of the
republic.
She also is sister-in-law of on the peace organization to act
Hiroshima. It has been a time
of scare, fear and crisis east
and west.
Have the Russians solved the
secret of the atom bomb? Well,
there is good reason now to be
lieve yes.
But what if they have? Peo
ple weary of fear, and mankind
is running out of goose pim
ples. Abraham Lincoln is reported
once to have been challenged to
a duel. Given the choice of
weapons, he immediately sug
gested "shotguns at five paces."
His opponent wisely dropped the
matter.
Today a duel with atom bombs
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek auickly to prevent communists could be as mutually deadly to
en though they had signed no who is leading the nationalist from engulfing China and the nations as shotguns at five paces
contracts. forces in the life and death entire Far East. He declared in would be to two individuals.
TRUMAN'S LEGION DAYS
struggle against the communists.
General Mao ,
When dynamic Clyde Lewis Tze-Tung chief
of the Red rev-
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Not Shown
By DON UPJOHN
It's a unique and Interesting experiment tried by Circuit Judge
Rex Kimmell In sending three alleged juvenile delinquents on a
guide-escorted tour through the state penitentiary where they can
see with their own eyes to where and what the trail of crime
leads and possibly hear with their own ears some advice from the
boys who have followed the
trail to its Inevitable end. The get all her windows washed be
judge arranged with Warden fore the soft steady rains of win
George Alexander to have the ter begin in earnest. BUT to
boys shown around to all the the fisherman, the first fall rains
spots at the prison and let theni have another meaning. It's time
called at the White House the
other day, President Truman 0iutiotli obvious
warmiy congraiuiaiea mm on jy nas acnieved
being the first World War II vet a g r a n d coup
to be elected national command- for jn tne mindj
er ui me veterans ui r ureign
Wars.
"But," added Truman, with a
twinkle in his eye, "you fellows
don't have the pep of us World
I boys."
Then he recalled that during
an American Legion convention
in Kansas City some years back
he and a few cronies led a bull
into the lobby of the Muelhbach
hotel.
"And do you know what the
critter did?" continued the pre
sident In 'mock horror. "He had
an accident right on the floor.
The spot's still on the hotel rug."
NOTE; Lewis, whose politics
differ from Truman's, remarked digest!
a sensationally blunt speech be- Atom bombs can be delivered
fore the general assembly that by plane, ship, submarine, or
Russia is directing the Chinese rocket every way except by
communists. parcel post. All nations that
This followed the appeal made took Part any such merry
Tuesday by Chiang Kai-Shek to warfare would suffer, and the
the Chinese people to join the casualties would be measured
"life and death" struggle with b? entire cities rather than pla-
the communists and save the toons.
country from becoming a Rus- Imagine the communiques:
sian vassal. "a joint force of allied bomb-
This was in the speech in ers today attacked and wiped
which he called on the nation- out Minsk, according to plan,
alist party to mend its- ways, Our interceptor fighters engaged
and admitted errors in the past, an enemv flirht over th. ...i.m
her example is likely to be vast. He said his own leadership was seaboard and shot down SO
responsible for the communist planes. Boston is missing."
One of the strangest aspects seizure of Manchuria and South . . .
of this situation is that both China. Four years ago I toured
the communists and the nation- The generalissimo proposed to stricken Nagasaki, a black scar
alists claim to be building their build a new nation on Dr. Sun in the hills,
governments on the principles Yat-Sen's principles of democ- Room by room I explored a
of Dr. Sun. racy. shattered concrete and steel
What a dish that is for the And while he was making this modern hospital in which every
Chinese man in the street to declaration, Madame Sun Yat- patient had been killed Rut th
of millions off'Vfe,-
Chinese thel j I
spirit of theE,'" I
Rev. Dr. Sunt jA' I
speaks through! tin r I
Madame Sun
The influence of Dtwiu H.tk.mi.
afterward to friends: "I'm
rock-ribbed republican, but you
can't help liking Mr. Truman."
Sen was with the communist dead had been carted away by
absorb the seen
ery and the at
m o s p h e re. It
may be this Is
Just the sort of
dose needed to
yank the juve
niles up short
and cause them
to change their
minds about
their course of
conduct. But we
doubt if the tour
for salmon fishing.
Note from our old friend Earl
Pearcy: "I would like to sug
gest that, in the interest of hon
est advertising, that the name
Curly's Dairy be changed to
Baldy's Dairy. Twenty years
will tell, even on a good dairy
man." But. Earl. Curly Is Just
as proud of that tiny little scalp
lock which curls from the top
of his dome as he was of the
shock of hair he had when he
used to navigate the town for the
Ladles On Merry-Go-Round
In private conversation. Pre
sident Truman refers to the first
lady as "The Madam."
Mrs. Eugenie Anderson of U,
Red Wing. Minn., is slated for
an ambassadorial post soon.
Dynamic India Edwards, who
heads the women's division of
the democratic party, spends
much of her spare time concoct
ing new dishes over the family
stove. She continued her hobby
throughout her recent reducing
diet in which she lost 34 pounds.
Only pause in the s-percenter
To complete the cycle, there leaders who also claimed that then, stacked dnuseH with mun
is speculation that the new Red Dr. Sun's revolution in 1911 jne and burned. What Impress
Republic will appeal for United paved the way for the Red rev- ed me most were the windows
Nations membership after the olutlon. the glass had melted and run
anniversary of the Sun Yat-Sen like dribbles of candle wax.
revolution. October 10. Now the big question arises: There is much wise talk about
And only Thursday national- Who speaks with the tongue how to protect yourself in the
1st China's chief delegate to the of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen The nat- event of atom warfare
N.., Dr. T. F. Tsiang, called ionalists or the communists?
HALF SEE MOVIES REGULARLY
Adults Read Newspapers,
Shun Books, Study Shows
The experts agree that dis
persal is fine. But they don't
explain how a man who owns
a delicatesen store off Broadway
can move it to a cow pasture in
Wisconsin and still sell enough
sandwiches to make his living.
Actually about all the ordi
nary citizen in any country can
do about the atom bomb is to
dislike it and pray that no
body blows a bugle.
ed are juvenile, and nearly two
thirds of the total circulation is
was all extensive including some Schindlers.
or tne son escape spois. mats
a lesson the boys will have to As to the subject of hair. In
learn for themselves, if they a case in district court yesterday
ever get there. a man appeared as witness who
said he was a special investiga
tor for Sheriff Denver Young
and gave his name as "B. Pate."
"What does the B stand for
Bald?" asked Brazier Young, at
torney for the defendant. Which
was quite a pertinent question
coming from Brazier, as anyone
...Ua 1- n , ,UA ..... I
r:.d Ml zl .'" p':;; u know..
Blessed Rain
(Gladys Shields in Jefferson
Review)
The first fall rains mean many
things to many people. To the
farmer, they mean that moisture
has loosened the soil In his fields
Chicago U.Ri Slightly more than four-fifths of the adult popu
lation read one or more newspapers regularly, according to Ber
explosions was when General nara Bereison, aean oi tne univerisiy oi inicagos graauaie no-
Vaughan and Senator McCarthv rarv school.
both took time out to laud able of ,he "ve major media of conmmunications books, maga-
D..u cuihI... 1 .. . u i nau'inannri moviea anrl
the state department's passport the radio-book, attract the ". and people . below voting fiction, he said. The number of
division. smallest audience. "Re' ,"bout 60 cent of tne "classics circulated is steady,
Blonde, vivacious federal com- Nearly every adult listens to clr.f . . . , . ... but extermely small, he added,
munlcations commissioner Frie- the radio IS minutes or more J.n tter educated use the Bereison s figures were based
da Hennock Is taking elocution a day. he said, and only one- Public library more than the les- upon The Report, of the Public
lessons in her spare lime. fourth of the adult population " educated, and women . little Library Inquiry, a study of the
Charming Sen. Margaret reads one or more books a
his fall-sown turnips will .tart I'ndangerous Weapons
plumping out ready for winter Portland, Ore. (US' Edward
stews. They prompt the deer M. Yerkees. 25, was Jailed today
hunters to get out their rifle on a charge of being drunk on a
and polish It up for the hunt in public highwav. Deputv Sher
distant hills. The housewife iff Donald W. Wright said Yer
starts to itemizing her many tall kers switched him in the face
house cleaning tasks, hoping to with handful of pussy willows.
Chase Smith (R-Me) not only month
knows the economics ot Maine's Bereison also said that almost
famous spuds, but is a real au- two-thirds of the adult popu
thority on how they should be lation read one or more maga
cooked. zines more or less regularly, and
First dollar bills with the nearly half the population see
signature of the new U.S. treas- motion picture once every two
urer, Georgia Neese Clark, will weeks or oftener.
be in general circulation in One in ten adults compared
about one month, to one in three children use pub-
lie library facilities as often as
Prodigal Senator Returns once a month, he said.
Idaho's repentant Sen. Glen "The public library is particu
Taylor, who broke with the de- larly an institution for young
mocrata to run for vice presi- people." Bereison said. "The
dent on the Henry Wallace tick- child-youth group accounts for
et, came face to face the other almost one-half ot the circuls-
more than men.'
Nearly half the books borrow-
public library as an American
institution.
These Kittens Are Too Kittenish
Detroit Wi They can't turn on the heat at the Oak Park
Christian chapel because two kittens refuse to come out of the
heating duct.
The Rev. James B. Shallow reported he has tried all tricks
to entice the kittens from their coty nest. They've been offered
catnip, horse meat and bits of bacon.
"They ate the bacon and ducked back in their nest," he said.
He pointed out extreme measures such as smoke or tesr gas
might kill the kittens. And they would still be In the heating
duet.
Two hundred of the pastor's flock gathered for an evan
gestic service the other night.
"We like to frost," the paster said.