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4 Salem, Oregon, Saturday, October 1, 1949
A Strike Against Public Welfare
Some 528,000 steel workers have shut-down the 305
plants in the coast to coast steel industry in a pension
strike, which threatens an economic tailspin for the nation.
Picket lines are forming across the country, following the
collapse of long and protracted negotiations. It is not
only the steel companies and their employes which will
suffer but nearly all other industries and workers, espe
cially the 500,000 steel workers in fabricating plants.
Even before the strike began, however, the nation's steel
mills, already had been closed by producers who saw the
walkout as inevitable. Workers remained in the plants
with food supplies and bedding. Picket captains set up
coffee-and-doughnut kitchens.
Federal mediators failed to bring "Big Steel" and the
union together on the vital pension-insurance issue. The
company agreed to pay the 10-cent an hour "package" pro
gram but demanded worker contributions. The union
stubbornly held out for the recommended "non contribu
tory" program at the employers' expense.
President Murray of the CIO steelworkers' union in
calling the strike, proclaimed it a "just and righteous cru
sade," and U. S. Steel President Fairless blamed it on
Murray's "inflexible" stand in negotiations. He holds out
for the principal of cooperative pensions to which both
employer and employe contribute, a system in effect in
many industries.
President Tiuman could stop this strike against public
welfare by utilizing the provisions of the Taft-Hartley
labor relations law, but seeking the law's repeal under
pledges to the unions, he refuses to. The emergency is
just as great as it was when he used his presidential power
to stop the railroad strike in 1945.
A Story that History Will Retell
The little news item was almost lost by most readers of
Friday afternoon's paper. What it concerned was almost
forgotten amid the current worries of strikes, politics, and
the A-bomb. But it was a story that will never be for
gotten in the history books of the United States.
The story told of the last day of the great allied airlift
to blockaded Berlin. Friday night the last big C-54 headed
eastward to Berlin with a load of coal. It was a routine
finale of what once was an endless skyway of planes bridg
ing the Russian blockade. Typical of the entire airlift
venture, it ended a month ahead of schedule.
It was back in June, 1948, that the allies came through
with the airlift idea to counter the Russian road, rail and
water blockade of Berlin. The Russians were convinced
11 months later that the round-the-clock aerial answer of
the western powers was effective: The Allies weren't going
to be driven out of Berlin.
Cost of the airlift? A quarter of a billion dollars and
the lives of 70 airmen.
The benefits will never be known specifically, but no one
can doubt the impression that allied ingenuity, which
dreamed up the airlift and then carried it through, had on
the Russians and Germans.
Regretably, that ingenuity and resourcefulness was lack
ing too often in American foreign affairs. In Asia, for
instance, the United States was faced with a vicious Red
expansion. Instead of reacting to the threat as in Berlin
with the airlift, the Allies threw up their hands and said
the situation in the Orient was hopeless.
The blockade of Berlin could have been described that
way, too, if the imagination and determination of the
Allies had not responded with the historic answer that is
now a memory, the inspiration of the airlift.
MacNaughton's Timely Warning
E. B. MacNaughton, Portland banker, college president,
newspaper executive, whose public service covers a multi
tude of projects, and a "liberal" in politics, sternly warned
the officers of the League of Oregon Cities and the Oregon
Finance Officers' association at their joint convention
against the dangers of inflation, the rising costs of federal
government and unbalanced budgets with their deficit
spending.
MacNaughton strongly urged the study of the Hoover
commission report on the cost of government, its effi
ciency and the exertion of their influence to force its
enaction by congress. He further urged:
"We've Rot a great future In this state. We've got tremendous
wealth, new touts (hydroelectric energy) to work with. But
nil these things are going to be hurt if we don't become realistic
about the cost of government. The time is close at hand, if It
is not already here, when we in this country arc going to begin
to feci the cost? of going to war. It is time we should. The mass
of the people believe that through some financial legerdemain
the government can turn dollars loose and give us a semblance
nd a flush of prosperity. It it possible for the government
some time to say the dollar represents a pant's button."
Pointing out that "you can't get rich by printing dol
lars, but only by production, MacNaughton stressed that
production is the only way of increasing wealth.
All this is sound common sense but seems to have to be
learned anew the hard way by every generation. The pur
suit of the illusionary will-o-the-wisps, the chase of some
thing for nothing towards Utopia still motivates a large
section of th9 masses.
Hollywood Opens a Dog House
Hollywood wrwrhey finally got around to opening a new
dug house with typical Hollywood fanfare. Even the mayor,
the California attorney general, chief of police and sheriff
turnrd nut.
Earl Gilmore, owner of oil refineries, a midget auto racing
stadium and an athletic field, was host at the affair.
.Mayor Fletcher Bowron snipped a ribbon officially opening
the nrw home of Gllmore's recently asqulred Scotch terrier,
as the assembled dignitaries looked on. Afterward they all
enjoyed a buffet dinner.
The Scoltle took It all very calmly, Gilmore paid the bills.
Thief Knew What He Wanted
Hayton, O. Ti Somewhere In Dayton there Is a reluctant
thief who knew Just how much money he needed and took It
When Julian Tangeman returned to hta home, he found $136
missing from a small metal hoi In which he keeps valuables.
A note left In the box read:
"Will pay you back as soon as possible." 1
Tangeman said an additional $8$ Id the box was untouched.
BY BECK
Husbands
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IF THEY ARE OFFERING K
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THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Those Lacking Sympathy With
Organized Religion Owe Debt to It
BY REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
Rector 0t Paul'i Cpueopal churob
San Francisco This Is being written in the civic auditorium
In San Francisco where nearly ten thousand people have as
sembled for the opening service of a great church convention.
Delegates and visitors have come from the Philippines, Japan,
China, Hawaii, Mexico, the Canal Zone, the West Indies, Liberia,
Britain, Brazil, Alaska, and from
every state in the union. Jews or the Old Testament Scrip-
It is gratifying to find that, tures, no one today would have
in this age in which so much heard of the Ten Command
is said about irreligiousness and ments or the writings of the pro
Godlessness, there is still a large phets. Without the organized
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
British Tried to Prevent
Russ A-Bomb Announcement
By DREW PEARSON
Washington One significant incident which occurred at the
time of the Russian atomic explosion announcement has now
leaked out namely, how the British tried to prevent that an
nouncement. They did not want President Truman to tell the
world that the Russians now have the secret of the atom.
The argument occurred on
Thursday evening, September available, it was impossible for
22, Just before the president was either the coal miners or the
slated to make his world-shak- American people to know this,
lng statement. The prime minis- And, in the end, it is the Amerl
ters of England and Canada were can coal-burning public which
also supposedly ready to an- foots the bill.
nounce, when suddenly the Brit'
ish Embassy in
Washington ask
ed the state de
partment for the
use of a special
airplane to New
York.
The private
plane set aside
for cabinet use
was thereon?
placed at the
embassy's d 1 s - at'
posal. Just why
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
3 ax.
A'ri ft .
I V.I J
Ortw Frln
Neither the miners nor the
general public could know, for
instance, that the pension fund
has suffered from all sorts of
extraneous expenditures to say
nothing of $35,000 paid annually
to both Senator Styles Bridges
of New Hampshire and Ezra
Van Horn for sitting on the
board.
When Lewis stopped all pay
ments to miners just before the
strike, it was announced that
the welfare treasury had dwind
led to $14,695,504. But what
THE AVERAGE BABY
uses to DIAPERS A
WEEK (THE NEW
AvERMI6E IS INCREASING SO
rrn MUCH TuilN 30 YEARS THE
STORE OWNERS
WUO ARC
OPTIMISTIC WHEN
THEY START A
BUSINESS HAVE
k S T03
BETTER EARNING
AVERAGE THAN
PESSIMISTS.'
tne emnassy snoum nave Lewi didn,, revegl wa ,hat
for an entire airplane instead of Qut Qf fhjs remaining balance,
merely buying a seat on a com
mercial plane to New York was
not explained.
However, Roger Makin, depu
ty undersecretary for British
foreign affairs, who was long
only a little over $1,000,000 was
earmarked for pensions to re
tired miners.
When Senator Bridges acted as
"neutral" arbitrator for the fund
stationed in Washington and an in 1948i he deereed that pensions
old friend of Secretary of State
were not to be paid to miners
Acheson, flew to New York and who retired before M lfl48
spent part of the evening argu- JMs waJ party ,0 makfi Jure
ing with Acheson against making tnere wou,d bfi enQugh funds
the Russian atomic announce- to pay the pensionSi partly be
ment next morning. cause the ,jne on retroactive
Makin's argument seemed to pension payments had to be
hinge partly around the idea that drawn somewhere,
the American people would be However of tne to(a, $104
too alarmed and panic-stricken. n00 nafri , nf ,h fnnri
nnnleiis rt f rpn.
raontntlue
people in most
if not all, relig
ious bodies who
are defenders of
the faith, who
maintain found
ations and who.
have the vision
and courage to '
produce pro-1
grams for con- 0for ,,
tinued e x pan-
sion.
early Church of Christendom,
the gospels in the New Testa
ment, the Sermon on the Mount,
or the incomparable Epistles of
Saint Paul would be unknown
today.
Without organized religion,
there would be no religious ed
ucation, no services of worship.
There would be no Christian
spirit to promote movements for
world relief, there would be no
organized charities, no organ
ized efforts to spread the mes
sage of the love of Christ.
In fact, excepting a possible
One British counter-idea was
that the news of Russia's posses
sion of the atom secret should
be leaked instead to a news
paper. This would give the
American public a less sudden
since April 1948, less than one
third, or $30,360,000, has gone
to pensions. The rest was over
spent, most of it on laudable en
terprises, but nevertheless with
a wanton abandon certain to
friends who at
this stage ob
viously must
come from the
I imagine his
sensations are
something like
those of your
correspon
rfC i "Ima
1
realization that Russia had the dep,ete the und gnd risk ,he
DomD- entire pension plan
There nad also Deen some op
position to the announcement
For instance, disability pay
ments and assistance to widows
'"" alone cost $64,206,071. Death
on the ground that we could bet- be,;,, to widows and depend
ter watch, the Russians if they ents cost $s 546 853 medical
QlQ nOl KIIUW wc iviicw men
There are people who tell us
with an air of self-satisfaction Individual here and there, there
that they themselves are deeply would be no belief In God here
religious, have faith in God and in the world today,
live by the Golden Rule, but as .
far as organized religion is con- .... . ,
cerned they have no sympathy The man who believes in God
with it and will have no dealings but has no use foe the church is
with it. not aware that he owes the little
This is ,of course, an alibi religion he may have to men and
secret. The British shared in
this view.
However, the British argu
ments got nowhere. President
care and hospital services cost
$4,761,071.
While these were worth-while
projects, neither the public nor
the coal miners has any way
which sounds hollow, is hollow,
women with the love of God in
and hetrnvs the shallow think
ing of those who use it. their hearts, banded together in
a common purpose. That purpose
Organized religion of one kind Is to spread the teachings of
or another has preserved and Christ, to preserve and pass on
handed down through the ages to millions the scriptures they
the precious teachings which ,"av ,had f'nd,e' (own '
. .to defend the faith, to maintain
are the foundation stones of foundationg) and to give of their
religion today. Without organiz- means to extend the kingdom
ed religion, the religion of the of God among men.
Truman had made up his m.nd ( knowing just wnat th were
categorically that the American or how tney were administered.
people were entitled to know. NOTE John L. Lewis was
what had happened and no one warned at th(j stgrt that the en.
could have deterred him. ,ire welfare fund would be Je0.
That was why when the cab- pardized, including pensions if
inet met next morning he stated he went in for too lavish spend-
"I have decided to make the fol- ing. But there is reason to be-
lowlng announcement." He did lieve he was not at all averse to
not ask the cabinet for advice the depletion of his welfare fund
as to whether he should make in order to give him an excuse
it. for coming back for more.
Out the Same Door, But-
Baltimore (P)-i-"Go out the same door," advised Judge J.
Howard Murray as he gave another chance to a young couple
In his court with marital troubles.
They did. They left the courtroom together.
Outside, the husband left his wife and walked away with
another girl.
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Just a Whisper
By DON UPJOHN
It may be just a faint rustling whisper coming on a southern
breeze from Lane county way but if it follows all precedent it
could well grow into a rumble or a roar. For didn't Jim Aiken's
football team of the University of Oregon lose a game last night?
And isn't this the unpardonable sin in the eyes and minds of the
university alum- .
ni? Of course
the fact is this
is the first out
of 14 straight
games that the
team has slipped
up in confer
ence play but
we await with
interest to see
what difference
this will make
In the minds of
he will not be able to go hunt
ing this year. His last deer hunt
was with his brother Benjamin,
now deceased, in the fall of 1947
when they accompanied Mr. and
Mrs. George Ashmon to the game
area near Bend.
Don CpJnn
C. F. Reilly, "the Watkins
man," broke a record yesterday.
When he got some of his com
pany's 1950 calendars he walked
way across town to see that we
th. ronch-thirstv alumni. If they got the first one, and Incident-
happen to lose' another maybe ally to get us our first 1950 cal
Jim had better begin to look 'nd" against all comers, which
around to see if he has misplaced ne ma. we giancea tnrough
his trunk keys since coming
from Nevada. A brief survey
same and see that next year Fri
day the lath falls first in Jan-
made among Saturday morning uary and then in October, two
quarterbacks this a.m. brought oi mem Deing supplied ior me
the Indication that the alumni 'er-
think Oregon was beaten be
cause of bad breaks. OSC alum- They Never Miss
nl think that Oregon was Just Eugene ofl It took some
snuffed out by a better team. ,lethlng, but the mail went
There It is in a nutshell. through. A letter addressed
"Keneth Martin, lives by his
Getting Old, Maybe neighbor, has one leg," turned
Lebanon James W. Smith, up at the Eugene post office
now three months past his 107th Friday. Carriers were queried,
birthday, is in general good One of them recognized the
health, but is regretful that, on name and description. The let
account of trouble with his feet, ter was delivered.
Traffic Cop Is Too Efficient
Montgomery, Ala. Traffic Cop Roland L. Banvlll
wrote out a parking ticket and left It under the windshield
wiper of a car.
When railed on to pay off In police tourt, he explained!
"It was a new car and I didn't recognise my license number."
"BOMB" EXPLODES
With doors bolted and shades
drawn, the senate-house atomic
energy committee got an ad
vance report that Russia had ex
ploded an atomic bomb.
The legislators listened with
long, solemn faces to the an
nouncement from Chairman
Brien McMahon of Connecticut.
"This is information of trans
cendent importance." McMahon
declared, dramatically. He add
ed that It was also the most
momentous news "Since Hiro
shima." Then he read excerpts from
a speech by Soviet Foreign min
ister Vishinsky, in which the
Soviet spokesman used the
words, "Reeking vengeance."
"That's the key to the whole
thing vengeance," broke in
Senator Vandenberg, shaking a
finger gravely.
Senator Gene Millikln of Col
orado warned against hysteria,
and Atomic Energy Commission
er Sumner Pike then gave his
ideas.
Then, as if a practical joke
from on high, the room was
rocked by a resounding noise.
The legislators jumped in their
seats, then broke into laughter.
What they had heard was the
beginning of a thunderstorm,
breaking over the Capitol dome.
"There goes your Russian at
om c bomb," quipped Millikin.
The tension was eased.
MINERS' WELFARE Fl'ND
What very few people in
cluding the miners realize a
bout John L. Lewis's welfare
fund is that the pension part
of the fund was never exhausted.
Coal miners saw red and
struck when Lewis announced
that payments would stop be
cause the coal operators had not
been contributing to the welfare
fund. But what they didn't know
was that:
1. Only three or four coat
operators In the entire United
States had stopped contributing.
2. The pension part of the
fund was not overdrawn and
could have continued paying
pensions.
However, since no public ac
counting of the welfare fund is
SENATOR CAIN FEINTS
Tough, waterfront-bred Nick
Bez, Alaskan fishing-fleet czar,
and a good friend of President
Truman's, recently threatened to
punch Washington's trouble
shooting Senator Harry Cain in
the nose the next time they met.
But after all the hubbub in the
the papers, the reporters missed
out when the two men finally
came face to face the other day
in the' men's room of the May
flower hotel.
Bez spotted Cain coming in,
and whirled around to meet him.
"Are you Harry Cain?" de
manded Bez, with eyes snapping
and jaw thrust forward.
"Sure, and who are you?"
shot back Cain. "I am Nick Bez,"
announced the fishing-fleet king.
The senator from Washington,
a former paratrooper, quietly
shifted his brief case from his
right to his left hand.
"Glad to see you," he mum
bled. But Bez brushed the greeting
aside. He was sore because Cain
had once charged that Bez be
longed to a Communist-front
orgainzation. That was the rea
son for the threat against Cain's
nose.
"Why did you call me a Com
munist?" snapped Bez.
"If you had read your news
papers, you would know that I
never called you a Communist,"
Cain retorted. He explained that
he had simply read from the
justice department's list of
Communist-front organizations.
"Will you apologize and with
draw what you said?" Bez per
sisted. "I said only what was said by
the justice department." Cain ex
plained again. "If you can get
the justice department to make
a correction, I will be very pleas
ed to make the change on the
floor of the senate. Isn't that
fair enough? You don't want me
to apologize for something I
never said."
"I guess that's fair enough,"
Bez agreed. Then he added, om
inously: "You know, I was aw
fully mad at vou."
Cain smiled and walked out
His nose still intact.
iCoprrimt I'M)
MacKENZIE'S COLUij
Tito Forms Qm Brand
Of Communism in Yugoslavia
By DeWlTMacKENZIE
roMliil"" Anit
Russia's arbrupt cancellation' her treaty of friendship with
Yugoslavia, thereby setting aW example which her satellites
may be expected to follow, tfher tightens the banishment of
Marshal Tito from the Bolshetit fold.
The Yugoslav dictator nowl decidedly on his own until he
makes newuaaMM
has been carrying on hostile ac
tivity against the Soviet Union.
Yugoslavia also has friendship
and mutual aid pacts with Al
bania, Bulgaria, Czechoslova-
Hungary, Poland and Ro
ma, In the natural course of
events, all these neighbors also
Sp, yl will cancel their treaties.
ft. m J urnii u - : ,
in h. p i t 0,BI" M"'tii alt this lies in the real reason
JD- .H u t. v for the break between Russia
Z th? hhiW ? r g0t C8Kg Yugoslavia which came into
hll " Germ,anba'lhe !" in a big way in June,
rage of high-power shells. 1948 That was henythe Mo.:
uTdTrs'taXblft dhaTa tSJrSSkSTSt
friendly encouragement.
. The cause of that expulsion
Thus far the only kindly won wa Tlto' refusal to surrender
Tito has received from his oil Jugoslavia's national sovereign
comrades is contained in an ar ty to control of Moscow. He
tide published by "The Litei maintained that his country's In
ary Gazette" in Moscow ternal affairs concerned her
The Gazette says history sooi lone' and that he would ac
is going to offer him a choice-ceDt n0 dictation,
"either rat poison, like Hitlei In other words, he was pur
or a soaped rope, like Mussc tuing nationalism in building
linl." The article adds ths his communist state, whereas
"there is good reason for th Russia's whole effort is centered
Belgrade dwarf to go crazy." in international communism un-
Moscow accuses Tito of linder which every country would
ing up with "foreign imperialii take Its orders from Moscow,
tic circles." Specifically Russii This means Tito has inaugur
charges that the Budapest treassted a new brand of communism
on trial of former Hungariaifor his state. And that, of course,
Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajkit a turn of events which is of
sentenced to death last Saturvast Importance to the western
day, disclosed that Yugoslaviinations.
Spilled: Million Qlons of Water
La Grande, Ore., (U.RV Poh sought someone who spilled
a million gallons of water.
The water came from a sen 0f mysteriously opened fire
hydrants.
The reservoir's water levekhich had been built after a
period of drought dropped tt feet.
What's Happened Wild West?
Bojeman, Mont. (IP) Who s this is the wild west?
Wyatt Haskell, Three Forkitancher, was fined $25 on a
charge his horses roamed thejghways.
Fred Doney, 60, is charged t Great Falls with letting a
horse run loose.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOHER
Hunters Go tthe Woods;
Deer Go to th City
By HAUOYLE
u ,LnIe,l N- M"1 Ciim that ol Louisiana Purchase exposition
held out in St. Louis. Mo., way bc in 1904!
Here 43 years later it's a cuing a scarcity of wild deer in
the central Adirondack mountaj.
So says Gerald Kenwell, 62, Je best woodsman hereabouts.
mis ia nis rea-
sonlna:
Some of our
0niHp want not f
to the St. Louis
fair. They saw
some beavers
on exhibition I
Looked real
cute, so thev
brought a pair
back and turned
them loose.
Then somebody
put out some more.
Tit k
The old guide puts much of
ie blame on "The cussed con
rvation rules." The state now
as a two-week open season on
eaver and otter, but Kenwell
unks it ought to pay a bounty
r trapping the pests. And a
jounty on bobcats, too.
i "There's more of them arminrl
ow." he said. "And as for beari
M Ut-why there's ten times as many
ow as there were .40 years
zo. The old bear hunters are
one and the bears have their
OPffV FORUM
Reaction to Court House Design
To the Editor: Fifty words to the Editor leaves little for sane
argument as to the impossibility of the design of the new county
"warehouse" to tie in with the rest of the capitol group buildings.
Already those who dislike it are accused of "moss-backism." Beau
ty and dignity are sacrificed for tunctionalism.
LARRY BOUL1ER,
690 Ratclift Dr., Salem.
Protected for years by a clos- av."
ed hunting season and with few Some bruins raided his hunt
natural enemies to catch them, ig camp this summer, smashed
the beavers multiplied like rab- irough a window and ate every
bits. And now, Kenwell says,,jng that wasn't in cans,
thev've got nature out of balance.
"The beaver is the death of "The thing to protect is tht
the woods," he said. "They've , ing that has value," said Ken
dammed up the streams and ell, "Not the thing that cauiea
flooded the natural winter quar- smage."
ters for the deer, leaving the "i figure that for every deer
deer nothing to eat. ,0t In the hills, hunters spend
"And thev're destroying the 200. So it's the deer that hai
trout, too. The trout can't get due not the beavers, otter and
past the dams to spawn, and the ibcats."
water in the ponds heat up in Kenwell thinks the deer
the sun. and the trout can't stand ould return to the woods if
that either.'' ,e -conservation fellows" would
end about $65,000 a year to
Kenwell holds that the otter, ock their winter quarters with
also increasing rapidly, is an ,0d a fraction of the amount
equal threat to the fisherman'! )ortsmen spend for hunting
fun
censes alone.
'An otter catches and eati it would also help the deer
about two pounds of fish a day. ld trout both." the old woods
and fifty of them will get rid of an a(ided. "if they turned every
a lot of fine trout." JSsed beaver into a hat."