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BY BECK
Popular People
4
Salem, Oregon, Monday, October 3, 1949
National Newspaper Week
Once a year the newspapers of the nation devote a week
to tellinsr the public about the place of the newspaper in
the affairs of the community and the world. This is that
The motto for this year's observance is: "Freedom goes
where the newspaper goes." Thomas Jefferson, the pro
found political philosopher of the creative period of the
nation, put this thought in a different way:
"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a gov
ernment without newspapers or newspapers without a govern
ment, I should not hesitate to prefer the latter. . . . When the
press is free and every man able to read, all is safe."
To see how true is the slogan for the week, a look at the
map of the world permits one to draw gome obvious con
clusions: Those nations in which there is no freedom of the press
are those nations suffering internal disorders or fear of
internal disorders, because of a dictatorship type of rule; in
other words, limited or no freedom. The iron hand of dic
tatorship can permit no opposition.
A controlled press exists in Russia and all countries
behind the iron curtain, also in Spain, Indo-China, Burma,
Pahkistan, and certain Central and South American na
tions. Some control over the press is in China, Japan,
Korea, India, Siam, the Near East, Finland, France, West
ern Germany. Argentina, the Dutch East Indies and a few
others.
That leaves a free press only in the Western democra
cies, and not ail of those either.
s News is the raw material from which the people who
are permitted to read the news can form their own con
clusions. In the United States, the Bill of Rights gives
written guarantee that the information and news the citi
zens of the nation need on which to guide their affairs may
be printed or spoken without fear of censorship.
The people alone have the right to determine for them
Rclves what they shall read. For the people of the central
Willamette valley, the Capital Journal accepts the respon
sibility entrusted in this newspaper to present the news
to the more than 17,000 subscribers who read this news
paper every day.
Should Follow Cal's Example
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas is in a Yak
ima hospital after suffering serious injuries when his
Jiorse threw him down a rocky hillside while mountain
climbing in the Cascades. The 50-year-old Douglas suf
fered 13 broken ribs and a deflated right lung when his
norse reared and flung him down the slope Sunday.
The justice, a companion said, "wanted to see the scen
ery in the summer time when there was no snow on the
ground and was headed for Crystal mountain, five miles
from Mount Rainier, when the mishap occurred.
Attendants said the supreme court justice was conscious
the entire trip to Yakima. Once he cried: "Oh God," as
pain coursed through him. One can understand this, as
there is nothing more painful than broken ribs, pierced
lungs and dislocated tendons. The pain will continue for
weeks and the justice will feel the effects the rest of his
life.
Douglas is an indefatigable mountain climber. He re
cently returned from the Near East where he made a
futile attempt to climb Mt. Ararat to look for Noah's Ark
and was labelled a spy by suspicious Russia. He then went
to Iran whore he had a narrow escape from death in an
other horse accident.
Douglas was the second Oregon statesman to be injured
in an accident while horseback riding within a month. Last
month, Sen. Wayne Morse (R., Ore.), was injured when
he was thrown from a racing buggy at Salem at the Stale
Fair horse show. Only last week was Morse able to walk
into the senate chambers unaided, but on crutches.
Evidently horseback riding ranks among the dangerous
sports along with deer hunting. If our statesmen insist
on it, and must ride a horse they should follow the example
of the late Calvin Coolidge and get a sane and safe mechan
ical horse which at least will keep them physically fit.
Deer Hunting Season Opens as Usual
The Oregon deer hunting season got off to a good an
nual start with a death toll of five in the first two days,
three from bullets and two from "overexertion." Two
were killed in southern Oregon when companions "fired at
deer," one in Wasco county. Heart attack claimed a 74-year-old
Roseburg hunter while preparing camp in l,ake
county, and Benjamin II. Rider, 4!), a Salem postal clerk,
who was found dead in his car near Burns after complain
ing of fatigue.
Every year similar tolls are taken of hunters by either
bullets or heart disease. Added to the list ere long will
be those who accidentally shoot themselves through care
less handling of loaded rifles, or other accidents.
One of the hunters was killed near Gold Hill when a
companion across a mountain clearing fired at what he
thought was a deer. Another was a red clad Eugene man
when a member of his party fired at him, thinking he was
a deer wearing a red hat. At any rate, he evidently saw
red. His huntiiig companion "didn't know" who fired the
fatal shot that killed the third hunter in Wasco county,
as there were no witnesses.
As long as the only requirement for hunting is money
enough to pay for the license, no questions being asked
as to competency, familiarity with firearms, experience
in hunting, or knowledge of wild life, the applicant will be
turned loose with lethal weapons and the annual slaughter
of humans will continue by those who have the atavistic
urge to kill.
The heart disease hunting victims can be lessened bv the
precaution of forcing a physical examination and refusal
of licenses to those unfit for the exertion that following
the deer compels.
Postman's Timing Was Poor
unh!1,Ile?h', For ,n,n ' Vara a mailman In a
Philadelphia branch postoffice tried to gel a transfer to Los
Angeles. Then Maurice Bailor took an extra long vacation,
and he and his wife made their first trip to the west roast,
to visit his wife's family.
Two days after their return Bailor was advised his transfer
Bad tome through.
'a I L I'M SURPRISED AT VOuR LOW GRADE. JIAAMIE. VOO
L OLDER BROTHER FREDDIE, WAS THE SMARTEST PUPIL
' ft IN THE CLASS WHEN I HAD HIM. I'M SURE YOU WANT V
IMaaaMaaB TO HOLD THE HI6H STANDARDS
Pi) I tfW VyHE SET. YOU SHOULD
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
General Patton Might Have
Foiled Russ on A-Bomb
By DREW PEARSON
Washington The famed General George S. Patton probably
turned over in his grave when President Truman announced that
Russia had the secret of the atom. For Patton was one man who
came near preventing, or at least retarding, Russian development
of the atom.
In the first week of May 1945, luncheon the other day with a
Patton's 3rd army crossed the teapot in front of his plate.
gy GUILD
Wizard of Odds
One in every
200,000 TRAIN
PASSENGERS IS
KILLED ANNUALLY.
fsre rAvriw9,
ronnyscmjtTl,
&uctt,a)
Czechoslovak border and entered
P i 1 s e n, head
quarters of t h
vast Skoda mu
nitions works.
Patton had
romped into
Czechoslovak i a
before the Red
army had time
to move its pon
derous ior c c a,
just as U. S.fj
troops advanced &
to the suburbs of
mm
tv. I
Orew PearuB
The incriminating pot was
spied by Sen. Ralph Flanders,
Vermont republican. .
"Aha!" exclaimed Flanders.
And he lifted the lid off the tea
pot triumphantly.
But the pot contained only
plain hot water.
"You won't catch me drinking
tea," smiled Watkins. Then he
explained that he was drinking
"Mormon tea" hot water, milk
and sugar with no stimulants.
NOTE It is also against Wat-
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Get Out Your Pencil
By DON UPJOHN
One of the interesting pictorial displays of last week was a
page in our favorite paper delineating the exterior of the pro
posed new courthouse building along with thai of the various new
buildings and the state capitol in the capitol group offered as a
comparison in architectural styles. We re pretty sure that the
county court
and cats, guinea pigs, rabbits,
goldfish, along with a goose, a
cock, a grass snake, a canary,
a calf, a goat and a tortoise. Once
a year the very Rev. Hedley Bur
rows, dean of Hereford, has a
service for pets and their own
ers, dedicated to St. Francis of
Assassi, patron saint of animals.
"I think the service was a mar
velous success," said the vicar
of Holy Trinity, the Rev. Leon
ard Snell. "It will help people
some of to realize their responsibilities
and the court
house buildi
commission
would like to
get some public t
reaction as to J
the feeling to
ward the archi
tectural design
of the proposed
courthouse
building. Up to
date it has had
a few represessions,
ngiTT-M
Don Cpjenn
Berlin, only to be ordered out by kins' religion to use tobacco or
General Enscnhower. liquor. To show the moral of
When this columnist reported this, he ordered the Library of
the peremptory withdrawal of Congress to furnish him with sta
ll S troops from Potsdam at tisties on the smoking and drink
Russia's request it was officially ing habits of non-Mormons which
and categorically denied. How- disclosed that Americans have
ever General Patton's Diary, been spending $67.22 per capita
now' published, together with on liquor and $26.39 per person
other memoirs show that these on tobacco but only $21.79 per
withdrawals were based on the capita on schools.
Roosevelt-Stalin agreement at . .
Yalta defining the limits of Rus- new ATTORNEY GENERAL
sia's advance into Europe. In any administration, wheth-
Therefore, when Gen. Eisen- er democratic or republican, the
hower ordered Gen. Patton out key cabinet post from a political
of Czechoslovakia, Russia im- viewpoint is that of the attorney
mediately moved in and took general. For it's in the depart
over the uranium deposits at ment of justice that the anti
Jachymov, just a shout as Pat- trust cases against big business
ton used to shout from Pilsen. can be prosecuted or fixed;
And having marched into where income-tax cases against
Czechoslovakia, the Red army political friends can be pushed
refused to leave until Russia had or dropped; where the big gam
been given extraterritorial rights biers who contribute heavily to
over the uranium mines of Jach- most political campaigns can be
ymov. This made Russian citi- sent to jail or winked at.
i 7 IT'S b TO 5 YOU &E EATING
fgaej ' I MORE BUTTER THIS YEAR
P"" o0 I THAN LAST
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN.
Attlee Vote Amounted to
Test of Parliament Strength
By Do WITT MacKENZIE
wn rorelgn A(Ilr Analyatl
Britain's socialist government has won a technical victory of
doubtful value in its battle in the house of commons to justify
the recent devalution of the pound sterling as a solution of the
country's fierce economic crisis.
Actually the three-day, full-dress debate degenerated Into
political t u b-p; ".'mi "I ...
ana Decause it win give ume to
complete nationalization of the
steel industry and reform of the
house of lords two planks ef
their platform.
thumping b y
both socialists t
and conserva
tives in prepar
ation for thef
next general
election.
them anon y m o u 8 . Naturally, tovard dumb animals." The ani
those opposed to the plans as mals got the spirit of the cere-
shown would be more likely to mony. No dogs chased cats. No
offer suggestions and frequently cats ate mice. The cats left the
the suggestions are of a nature goldfish unmolested. Only a
calling of anonymity. What goose named Egbert disgraced
they'd like to have, we're pretty his owner. Egbert waddled out
sure, if the reactions are nega- just as the service began.
tive, to have some constructive
suggestions as well. The county Early returns on the deer sea
is going to spend quite a hunk son's slaughter indicate five Ore
of dough on this building and gonians killed so far while in
folks will have to live with it the search of venison and a con
a long time. So whatever you siderable time yet to go. One
think about it, if you think, small return was shown in dis
drop a brief note and sign your trict court here when a Port
name. If not and you are dis- land man was fined $25 and
satisfied, then you may forever costs for failure to have a tag
after hold your peace. on his deer, or some such tech-
nical offense, whatever it was.
Nobody Converted Maybe he was just smart and
Hereford, England (P) Forty when he got his deer got up and
horses went to church here yes- got out of there in a hurry be-
terday. So did hundreds of dogs fore somebody plugged him.
Widower, 83, Is Fast Worker
Chicago UP Peter Wolf, 83-year-old widower, "Sure is a
fast worker," says his bride-to-be, Mrs. Ida Fishman.
"Why, he even kissed me on our very first date," said Mrs.
Fishman, 60-year-old widow.
That was three months ago when they met. And, they said
as they obtained a marriage license, It was love at first sight.
Their wedding was set for tonight.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Billie Burke Doesn't Flutter
In Real Life-She Vibrates
By HAL BOYLE
New York W Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke is an
ageless girl.
She starred back in 1907 with the late John Drew, played
Ophelia to John Barrymore's Hamlet, spent 18 glittering years
as the wife of Flo Zicgfield, and has acted in more than 100
mowon p i c-
lures.
Yet lhi urprk
this busy lass of
64 years spent
four minutes
smooching with
37- year- old
jviui wprunger.
M. W. E. A.
B. is better
known. of
course, as Billie
Burke, and Bcr-
linger is recognizable to many
video viewers as Milton Bcrle.
zens immune to Czech laws in
this area, a condition which continues.
Even today no visitors are al-
For instance, the political pow
er of the justice department to
break big city machines was one
reason why forthright Attorney
n0WndefningtheLMXJ
DeWIII Mftekentlt
lowed in Jachymov not even General Frank Murphy was
officials of the Czech govern-ment.
kicked upstairs to the supreme
court.
Because of this, it is always
Of course, the present Czech dangerous to put a politician in
communist government has no charfe 4V lhte ustlce department;
objection to this arrangement, and hat reason Alot otAZ
but the earlier Czech govern pie will be watching Howard Mc-
ment of Edouard Benes did. Grath just appointed attorney
nana,.-,! aflar tOrVltlO D C rhalf-
. u I-, ; : 6
ah loti, iqlc mi cign min
ister, Jan Masaryk later mur
dered by the Russians rose on
the floor of the United Nations
in January 1946 to place Czech
oslovakia officially on record as
man of the democratic national
committee.
While it's too early yet to
judge, so far McGrath is going
about his new job not as if he
favoring the use of atomic en- wanted to do a job for the demo-
ergy for peaceful purposes only,
and proposed that Czechoslo
vakia's uranium should be made
available to all nations.
As a result, official Moscow
stood on its ear. The Soviet am
bassador in Prague protested to
Czech Prime Minister Fierlinger,
and- the threat was implied that
unless Czech uranium mines re
mained under Soviet jurisdiction.
cratic party but as if he wanted
to do a job for the country. His
temptations will be great,- but so
far he has made a good impres
sion. NOTE 1 Among other things,
McGrath is continuing Tom
Clark's forthright position on
civil liberties. Recently he or
dered the prosecution of an Ala
bama policeman, Cecil Thrash,
duel of words
was over, Prime
Minister Attlee, with his big so
cialist majority behind him, first
defeated a conservative motion
of no confidence in the govern
ment. He then proceeded to drive
through a vote of confidenre, in
which the conservatives, headed
by former Prime Minister Win
ston Churchill, sat silent
Thus the vote was on party
lines.
So about all that this eagerly
awaited debate achieved was to
demonstrate again Attlee's abil
Prime Minister Attlee wants
wait until next year for the
election. He appears to have
confidence in the effects of the
J l ..... : ...u:u i i
ucvaiuauun wmi:ii lie Jiuiiaeil IB
credited with putting through.
He is, by the way, a very de
termined man and it will take a
good deal to make him change
his position.
The leading exponent of an
early election is Attlee's minis-
who is a left-wing socialist. Bev
an is one of the most brilliant of
the socialist chieftains. He is a
Welshman who knows the hard
ships of the coal miner from per
sonal experience, and he pos
sesses all the fiery eloquence of
his people.
They say Bevan has ambitions
to be prime minister one day.
the Red army would march in on h"h"gof shoo"ng A
again.
gro in the back, even though the
shooting took place two years
Since the mines are only three ag0 last October.
jinica away liuill UlC OUVICl ZUne
of Germany, this was no idle
threat. Meanwhile, the extrac-
NOTE 2 McGrath's chief
trouble so far is long weekends
in Rhode Island,
ity to hold his following in par- and some political observers
liament. fairlv well in line l- think that he may well achieve,
though there was some disaffee- hat 8reat Post.- Naturally one,
tion. requisite for success will be a
What the general public eager- continuance of the socialist
ly wanted was an indication of party in Power
government plans for handling
tne crisis, and of how the con
servatives themselves would
deal with the situation if they
were in power. But all the pub
lic got was a display of elec
tioneering pyrotechnics. ,
Whither now?
The fate of socialist rule in
Britain is at stake. The social-
tion of uranium, by German pris
on labor, continues.
Whether Russia has anv other MERRY-GO-ROUND
sources of uranium is not known, Adm. Chester Nimitz, once a
but it is known that this is the great naval fighter, now a Unit-
richCSt source in Europe, a n d pH Na.inn, taff memher ha. he.
come a great booster for the
world organization.
Cuba has lodged an official in-
What are the chances of that
continuance?
That's what has even England
guessing.
If the socialists solve the eco
nomic crisis before election time
they will go to the polls full of
confidence. If they fail to meet
this great emergency, and things
ist leaders are divided over the are worse at election time than
question of whether the govern- ?y are now' their chances ar
ment should force a general ItLlL
' Attlee obviously is banking
without it the recent atomic ex
plosion might have been impos
sible. NOTE It should be recalled
that the Yalta agreement was vitation to have the next UN
concluded at a time when our General Assembly in Havana;
the answer will be a regretful
no.
lATfc,
Bsl Berte
ask if she'd pose for pictures
illustrating an article on geri
atrics, the science of old age.
"No," she said definitely,
"that not for mc."
A moment later she hailed a
waiter and pointed at her salad.
j "Take it away it's getting in
my face."
Suddenly she remembered she
had to go to a studio to pose
with Milton Berle for some the
ater magazine photos.
"Hope you won't mind," she
said, putting her arm in mine
and lifting her cornflower blue
eyes. "I've quit trying to keep
up with my schedule. I'm try
ing to make it keep up with
me."
In the cab the question arose
as to whether Milton Berle
would wear suspenders.
"He'd better not," said Billie.
At the studio, Berle showed
up drowsy-eyed and puffing a
wartime partnership with Russia
Was Workintf rpacnnnhlv u.All
j ,u D ,,. . The British died hard over
and when Roosevelt s great am- , , t ,
s"i ""i election of Carlos Romulo as
bition was to continue this har- president of the General Assem-
mony to insure world peace. On bly. They were pushing Iranian
the other hand, it should also be Chief Delegate Nasrollah Ente-
recalled that Alger Hiss, since zam'
accused of leaking state depart- 4. W"h ?r',iliIPI JceT?
j . . .L - . ive head of the U. S. delegation
ment documents to the Russians, ,0 the UN, following Acheson's
was an adviser at Yalta. return to Washington, there will
be a minimum of bad blood be-
TOBACCO VS. SCHOOLS tween ,ne U- S- and the U S S R.
As a good Mormon. Sen. Ar- f-f'T " f" friendly term h
thur Watkins. Utah republics u Soviets personally, and be-
isn't supposed to drink Ta or L f? PPSe
fnttnm Rnt h. ...... u. "'""' vmiui.
But he was caught at
(Copyright 1949)
Miss Burke is a living link
between the great theater of the
past and today's television cam
era. Her memories go way back
but no one gets a bigger kick
out of living in the preent.
I went over the other day to
Interview her at Sardi'a restau
rant, and it was like talking to
a restless greyhound. She was
all over the place.
On the screen Billie Is fam- lon cigar,
ous for playing the role of a "Didn't sleep again last
silly, fluttery woman. But in night," he announced. "Two men
real life she doesn't flutter she '""'erf to hold me up. But it
vibrates. ended with me and my chauf-
She burrowed for a moment ,(,ur chasing them in my car."
In a huge lettuce salad. She said
she'd just finished "And Baby For four minutes he kissed
Makes Three' for Columbia Tic- and clowned with Billie, as the
tures. and now was looking for photographer, using three ram
a Broadway play. eras in relays, clicked off 48
Then she saw Producer John shots.
Golden and whipped over to his "If I were only a few years
table, had a few bites there, and younger, dear." Milton murmur
whipped back. ed. Then he began nuzzling her
"I can't find the right kind of ear
play," she said. "I don't want "Oh, Milton." Billie squealed,
to play a crude, low woman, but "Don't kiss me like that. That
it seems like only parts about is for someone more my daugh
thwarled, frustrated people are ter's age "
popular now. Failure isn't part "How old is she?"
of my philosophy." "Thirty-one."
"Just the age of my best
A press agent iimi ever to Jokes, sighed Berle.
Always Something Doing
Worcester, Mass. nj.Ri Last winter Robert E. Hasselstrom
lost his job. Then his home was burned down. He and his
family of four lived with a relative, then borrowed a friend's
vacant house. Later he lived in a tent. Recently lie built
a one-room house that's still incomplete.
The other day his wife returned from the hospital with
twins.
OPEN FORUM
Opinion on Court House Plans
(Editors Note Letters to the Editor, limited to 50 words,
are solicited expressing an opinion on the proposed plans for
the exterior of the Marion county court house.)
To the Editor: I most certainly can not see where the plana
for the new court house conform in any way to the state house
and other state buildings.
It has an altogether different appearance and reallv looks
like a warehouse. MRS. C. E. TAYLOR
Box 157, Stayton
To the Editor " ... as one Interested in the true progress
of any city. I say that I favor a plan (for the new court house)
that conforms more to the plan of the exiling buildings in the
capitol group ... if such can be built without sacrificing effi
ciency of operation, and proper lighting and health facilities."
ELIZABETH WILLIS
660 Marion St, Salem
election in the near future or
snOUld wait Until, say. Spring, much on the wppntn nrnsram
Under normal circumstances an of social services which his gov
election would be due in the ernment has inaugurated. Dur
middle of next vear. ins the devaluation debate, he
The socialist decision will, of said:
course, in effect be a gamble "We believe we can preserve
That is. if thev holri a nninW ... : j
- .,, -1 " UU1 B.mi BC1VILC3, Mild UUI fl2-
election it will be on the basis peal to the country is that they
that economic conditions may be have got the finest social serv
better now than they will be ices any country has ever had
later on. anj there is, in the maintenance
If they wait until next vear. it and preservation of ' these, a
will be because they figure that great incentive to all our peo
devaluation will help matters, pie." '
Soft Music to Soothe Animals
os Angeles (Pi Now it's soft music. for the Inmates of tha
new animal shelter of the Los Angeles Society for the Pre- ,
vention of cruelty to animals.
Tk. -K -1 , j . ... iit i .... . i i. i - ,
9iici.ce, upcucu io inc puDiic, also inciuoes uunK ocas,
a diet kitchen and germicidal lamps. And a drinking fountain
which dispenses fresh water to dogs on the street outside is
labeled a "dog bar."
"Organ music Is best suited for the dogs," said Alex Tilley,
general manager of the society. "The selection must not hit .
high C or the dogs will begin howling. And be-bop well,
that's out, too."
Brother, Sister Meet After 70 Years
Syracuse, N. Y., Oct. 1 PA 75-year-old Oregon woman
walked off an airplane yesterday Into the arms of a brother
whom she had not seen for 70 years.
Mrs. Mary Gerretse of Cannon Beach, Ore., said she located
her brotker, George Flsk, 77, of nearby Nicholvllle, five yean
ago while trying to trace her birth certificate.
Fisk said he and his sister were separated while their family
was living near Lake Placid. Mrs. Gerretse will visit Fisk
and his son, George Fisk. Jr., at Nicholvllle indefinitely.
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