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4 Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, October 4, 1949
Hot Enough to Handle
The "hot" pineapple fracas at The Dalles cooled off
quickly. While it wai "hot," men got hurt, aeveral badly.
Now that the situation has cooled, what was the damage?
It was not by mere accident that the barge, loaded with
"hot" pineapple from the strike-harassed Hawaiian islands,
put in at The Dalles. The barge had to have permission
to dock at that port on the Columbia river. When the
port commission of The Dalles found what happened when
"hot" pineapple met hot longshoremen, the commission
ordered the pineapple barge removed. That wag after
heads were cracked and the state police were rushed to the
port city to restore order.
Then a meeting in the governor's office between the
parties involved, including The Dalles, failed to improve
the situation. Things remained the way they were at
the end of the violence at The Dalles: The longshoremen
held their own, the pineapple people got no advantage,
and The Dalles wanted to wash its hands of the whole
Harry Bridges, the labor tyrant who rules his longshore
and warehousemen and has his eye on more than the mere
organizing of workers to improve conditions, flew to
Hawaii over the week-end to take up further negotiation
talks. He was even optimistic about the outcome. Per
haps that was why both sides let the matter drop at The
Dalles the way it ended, with nothing accomplished.
Governor McKay warned both parties involved in the
dispute he would not take sides in the argument. How
ever, he would use all of the power of his office to see
that there was no repetition of the shameful happenings
at The Dalles. His position, based on the strict enforce
ment of law and order, was all about all he could do under
the circumstances.
The way the "hot" pineapple dispute hit Oregon and
ended without any accomplishment, is the way the dispute
has been all the way along these many, many months. The
situation has been too long considered too hot to handle.
The federal government needed no further evidence of
the inability to reach an agreement in this particular dis
pute on "neutral" ground, after The Dalles affair. The
mess at The Dalles pointed too clearly to the rule of jungle
law as being the deciding factor.
! Any strike that lasts 157 days and so vitally affects the
.welfare of the people of the Hawaiian islands needs fed
eral attention. The facts of the strike look too suspicious.
How can the federal government avoid the responsibility
of checking up on this strike which involves but 2000 men
and at the same time the health and welfare of the people
'of the Hawaiian islands, plus America's vital outpost in
the Pacific?
"The jungle law of economic force" has been permitted
to run too long in the "hot" pineapple dispute. As Senator
Morse has said, the time is past for the president to invoke
emergency provisions of the Taft-Hartley act. This labor
dispute is certainly a threat to the national safety and
health. Government has been trying too long to avoid
stepping in. Meanwhile, Bridges strengthens his "govern
ing" rule of the Pacific.
. Does Washington or Bridge govern the Pacific ?
Thomas Mann on Today's Germany
i Thomas Mann, the distinguished German author, winner
of a Nobel prize for literature, whose books were burned
'by Hitler and he himself exiled for his liberalism, has an
article in the New York Times Sunday Magazine describ
ing his impression of the Germans of today during his
first visit to the Fatherland since his exile.
Mann has returned from participating as an honored
guest at the Goethe bi-centenary celebration held
throughout Europe. He became an American citizen and
a resident of California. He found Germany a ruined, van
quished land, but the German masses an unchanging peo
ple, despite the efforts to democratize them.
For many years, to the exile, Germany has seemed like
a nightmare, for to be carried back "would have meant
certain death a wretched, miserable death." But the
visit was the culmination of his stay in Europe and "rich
In colorful experience, broken by sudden painful shocks."
Mann remarks of th people:
. "The broa 1 unregenerate masses have long since reverted to
a brazen nationalism. They live by the slogan: 'Everything
'was better under Hitler!' By virtue of the experience they
chilm to have had they declare triumphantly that democracy
,)iaa been tried and found wanting. Democracy to them means
the occupation powers and all who 'collaborate' with them. It
Is Bt tha door of theae that they lay their own wretched con-
. ditlon and that of their country.
"Our 're-education' has failed In Its most Immediate and
fundamental tasks to make endurlngly clear to these people
that their Ill-being Is but the consequence of a war forced upon
the world by criminals a war that was lost, a war which, long
since lost, was continued to the extremes of ruin; a war that
amounted to national bankruptcy without precedent.
"Against this fact they close their minds. They desire neither
to hear nor to know anything about the atrocities of the Nazi'
regime, which they declare to be propaganda lies and exaggera
tions. They exhibit an ostentatious indifference toward court
rases dealing with such atrocities. They are equally indifferent
to the havoc which Hitler's war wrought in other countries.
Evidenlly the victors should have been far worse off. The Ger
man claim to preferential sympathy, special consideration and
care Is unshakable in Its arrogance, and the perplexities of the
world situation Invest it with considerable success."
Mann admits that the tension between the two great
powers of occupation fnvor the evil elements in Germany,
while harming the good, putting them on the defensive
and at a disadvantage. He found economic conditions In
Western Germany far better than in the Kast and that
marked progress has been made since surrency reform.
Hut he was received with marked courtesy despit "crude
prior threats, there was not the slightest jarring note."
There is nothing surprising in all this, it was to be ex
pected after the Nazification of the youth of Germany for
a couple of decades. It will take another generation of
democracy to democratize Germany and it Is questionable
if it ever can be don. For so many centurie German hava
'been trained for war, nationalism and serfdom, under ab
solutism, monarchy or totalitarianism that they have
btcome inherent in tha German masses.
BV BECK
A Dog's Life
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Death of Ray Wakefield
Tragic End to Public Career
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Ray Wakefield, who had served his country long
and faithfully, was found in the bathtub the other day with his
wrists slashed. His death, shortly thereafter, did not provoke the
same storm that followed the suicide of another high public offi
cial last spring, but it should not pass unnoticed.
Ray Wake-
by GUILD
Wizard of Odds
If a major
LEAflUE BALL
TEAM IS AHEAD
JU.Y4-OODS
ARC OVER 3 TO
IT WILL WIN THE
PENNANT
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SIPS FOR SUPPER
Pools Galore
By DON UPJOHN
Baseball pools on the first game of the world's series tomorrow
sprang up around town this morning like mushrooms and it may
be a close bet whether there are more of those pools than there
are pools of water around the streets from the current rain. We
suggest maybe a good pool would be to guess on how many dry
days there'll be
from now until
the first of next
May. The num
ber might be
I n s 1 g n ificant.
Some of the boys
were wondering
If today's rain
would have any
effect on the
ball game to
morrow but we
doubt if it will
slop over that far.
The parade of bucks hanging
over the hoods of cars seems to We hear that Chief of Police
be at a new low this year and and Mrs. Clyde W. Warren have
Dn DfJba
Note to tha Girls
Perth, Australia u. Sydney
Hairdresser Vincent De Lorenzo
won th Australian grand cham
pionship for hair-dressing today
with an 18-inch-high master
piece. It was tinted red, white
and blue, topped with a map of
Australia in silver, sprinkled
with models of the Sydney har
bor bridge, a kangaroo and a
kaola bear, and crowned with
red, white and blue colored
stones. De Lorenzo called it
"Australian fantasy."
field was a re
publ lean who
had made a ca
reer of govern
ment. Beginning
as a California
district attor
ney, then as a
California rail
road commis
sioner, he work
ed his way up
to be a federal ' hum
communications commissioner.
Most of his adult life he spent
serving his government, and
both democrats and republicans
testified that he served it well.
When his term expired on the
federal communications commis
sion in 1947, both republican
and democratic senators, togeth
er with the democratic FCC
chairman, recommended him for ny.
reappointment. Traveling in a plane put at
And he was reappointed. This his disposal by th U.S. govern
particular post of the FCC had ment, Schuman was engrossed
to be filled by a republican, and in seeing th marvels of Niagara
Truman sent Wakefield's name falls from the air.
up to the senate. Just at that moment, his sec
Then, one day after President retary recalled that she had fail-
Truman made a speech at ed to hand M. Schuman some
Princeton, June, 1947, urging personal mail which had been
young men to make a career of forwarded from Paris. She put
government service, he suddenly three letters in his hand,
withdrew Wakefield's name Schuman, who was formerly
from the senate. finance minister of France, had
"There Is a critical shortage of helped revise the French tax
such men," the president had structure, but over Niagara falls,
told the Princeton graduates re- he wasn't interested in taxes,
ferring to government servants. "l should think they could
Then he went back to Washing- have kept this until 1 got home!"
ton and killed the appointment he exclaimed, tossing the first
of a man who had spent 25 faith- leUer mt the lap ol a compan-
ing over to Pappy's big oll-and-gas
voting record, pulled a stop
watch on the lady, informed her
that her time was up.
"I wasn't expecting to share
my time with members of the
committee,' who have asked m
so many questions," replied
Miss Alpern, and was given
few more words.
NOTE Olds is another pub
lic servant who, like Wakefield,
has not been afraid to buck th
big interests in favor of his fel
low men.
FRENCHMAN OVER NIAGARA
When French Foreign Minis
ter Schuman was here for con
sultations with Secretary Ache
son and Foreign Minister Bevin,
he took a one-day trip to Cana
da to attend a religious ceremo-
ooos against two sets or
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ON THE SAME DAY ARE 47,000000
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OOOS ARE 3 TO 2 IT
TAKES YOU LONGER TO DO
HOUSEWORK WITH 1 CHILD
THAN IF YOU WERE CHILDLESS..
60 HOURS A WEEK IS AVERAGE
WITH ONE CHILD
ion.
It was his bill for income tax.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon,
confined to a wheel chair with
this quaint old custom which
used to be so prevalent around
here has practically passed into
history as far as we can see. To
us a buck parade was as good
as a tear Jerking motion picture
returned from deer hunting
trip to Eastern Oregon, both be
ing successful. The missus re
turned with a three-point buck
and the chief with a cold.
ful years in government service,
Wakefield, just before his ap
pointment was withdrawn, had
issued a report which saved the
American public $2,500,000 a
year in radio and telegraph
rates.
Because of this and his consist
ent championship of lower rates
,i .u. k: orf "ay eep
"7 .ni.. HiH j8ht of Morse in his wheel chair.
fellow Republican Karl Mundt
of South Dakota cracked: "I
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Sun in the City Comes Up 1
But Only Once a Day
By HAL BOYLE
New York W) The nice thing about the sun is that it only
comes up once a day. '
Here along Broadway, where people grind their drama under
foot on the street of failure.few folk are Interested in the color
of the sun unless it has been tentatively approved by the federal
communications r p."-?! ,
nave amusea me mass, naa mcir
herring or bacon and eggs, trad
ed the rich gossip of the inner
fraternity of entertainment, and
gulped sleep or the sleeping
pill that leads to sleep.
Broadway and its side streets
belong to the stranger and the
garbage man, banging into ring-
1 ing cans the uneaten steak frag
ments that fatten New Jersey
hogs.
commission. i?
The dawnf,
may come up
out of Jamaica
like China
rncf thA hnv
but it has tof
have a commer
cial appeal, a
sort of sponsor
ed madness.
Actually, the
day erupts in a
blue and gold surprise. It Is
like a reluctant flower with
Bit Berfe
a wrenched back, got bored with burst of kindnesi in its petals,
the hospital and ordered that he it comes so soon it bowls you
The sound is a chime of pros
perity. It rings the hidden pigeons
awake. Where they hide at
night. It is hard to know. But
communications companies did'
n't like him. On top of this he
Speaking of pathetic sites we
as we could never figure how saw Frosty Olson the well
anything could look more pathe- known florist, draped over a
tic than a deer draped over an parking meter yesterday in an
automobile. The least they could attitude of waiting. "There's
do would have been to borrow still two minutes to go on it,"
a horse and drape it over the said Frosty, "and I'm waiting
rump of th equine. That would for it to run out before putting
have had a touch of nature to my nickel in." That is more
it. honesty than honesty itself.
T.R.' Gave His Name
To Kid's Teddy Bear
Chicago WW The teddy bear, th favorite stuffed animal
toy of American children for 47 years, owes Its names to
President Theodore Roosevelt.
Roosevelt found a tiny bear cub during a Mississippi hunt
ing trip In 190t. He was delighted by th animal's cut
appearance and refused to let It b shot.
"T. R." adopted the little bear and It became famous.
Pictures and stories of Roosevelt and his pet appeared In
newspapers across th country.
Morris Mich torn, an Immigrant toy maker In Brooklyn,
was Inspired by the picture of tha cuddly little animal. He
cut a tiny bear skin from a soft material, stuffed It and put
it on display.
Then he made another, sent it to the president, and asked
permission to call It the "Teddy Bear."
"I don't think my name's likely to be worth much In the
bear business," Roosevelt wrote back, "but you'r welcome
to us It."
The Teddy Bear won immediate popularity and Mlchtom's
tiny toy shop mushroomed Into a toy and novelty company
that produces II per cent of th nation's toys.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Baseball Offers Chance
To Ease Cold War Tension
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
Fortua Afffttra Antliiu
Small straws show which way the wind blows.
One of the encouraging signs of our harrassed times Is the
great number of people of both sexes and all ages whom one sees
grouped about th news printers on a pleasant afternoon.
Maybe my imagination is working overtime, but that's the
It strikesi
are better informed. Ive travel
ed about our country a good
deal, discussing foreign affairs,
and can testify that even our
young folk of high school age
are very well informed.
Our country has undergone
wonderful development in this
respect during the past genera
tion. No, Americans aren't neglec
ting weighty matters for base
ball. They're just maintaining
their perspective by balancing
their mental diet. One-food
Well madam, I reckon they're diets aren't healthful,
reading about thos things. You
have to dig through such news n probably is true that th
in order to get anything els ,Verag. Americ.n is fed up to
these days. the nwll wlh, tmf con5tant bar-
But their big interest of th rage of news about the cold war.
moment probably Is centered in We'v been bombared with it
th baseball championship bat- day and night ever since th end
ties. And that's th way it of th world conflict, and it cer
should b. tainly frays th nerves.
Sure, w'r fed up with all
Interest in th lighter things this bickering and the conse
of life doesn't mean there is no quent drain on our resources,
interest In th serious problems. But we're not going to let our
Even th hangman plays check- selves develop on-trck minds
rs when h's off duty. over It.
There re no people on earth It's na good sitting at horn
more deeply interested In world biting our fingernails and brood
affair than Americans, or who ing.
i i i , ;..; . ,Hi quuui
1 ,.' , cnooUo, q , m pv don,t mind yu votin8 like FDR,
be wheeled into the senate each off your feet, because you aren't " '"" ""
h. .... ik i , a ' Decau!" somehow they always awake to
ed, importunate pilgrims of
Manhattan.
Someone on the way home
I am talking about the morn
ing in a place called Manhattan,
but you don't have to start com
ing around in a wheel chair,
too."
(Copyright 1S4I)
burn's nephew at Houston, Tex
as. Finally, Senator Bricker of
Ohio, who sought a radio sta
tion at Columbus. O., wanted his
jone," of ohi" appoVnted" m FEW CITIES HEED RUSS THREAT
Wakefield's place.
Jones had been elected with
the support of Gerald L. K.
Smith and other isolationist
groups, once had belonged to the
Black Legion. But Wakefield's
name was withdrawn, and Jones
was appointed in his place.
where the wise and the weak spills a sack of popcorn aeiio-
folk of a confused world mingle erately and hours after he has
and are mangled. gone the sleepy birds flutter
The famous folk by this hour down to collect his contribution.
it tn pigeons picKea mayor,
N. Y., Chicago Take Steps
To MeetA-Bomb Attack
To one who had dedicated his
life to government service, who
had raised a family on a skimpy
It would be someone unknown
to anybody but them. It would
be the man with the popcorn.
The people themselves all
workmen and jaded playboys
who keep a city alive between
dawn and dusk wonder some
times what they have done to
justify belonging to the human
race.
The pigeons have a simpler
ethic. Their loyalty is to th
nest and th eggs, not the lar
gesse of that strange two-legged
opportunist man.
(Bt United Preiu)
New York and Chicago are taking steps to cope with an atomic
attack, but many cities have made no preparations despite the
knowledge that Russia now has the bomb, a United Press survey
showed today.
Even the nation a capital has made no plans for safeguarding
sovernment salary, and who had top officials or government rec-
tried to defend the public's in- ords, although many cities in- energy steering committee might
tcrest, naturally this was pretty dicate they were looking to be useful for other heavily popu- So every blue-gold dawn Is a
hard for Ray Wakefield to take. Washington for guidance on the lated areas. The committee trumpet to a fresh adventure.
At first he figured he might matter. has coordinated agencies in wt'l,r.th"t adventure lie
practice law, then went abroad Such important industrial and charge of water supplies, fire old M nhattan or the widen
on a makeshift radio assign- .hipping centers as San Fran- control, hospital, and evacua- Ing world we work in Is another
ment. But he couldn't sleep at cisco, Minneapolis, and Cleve- tion of refugees to minimize the m'r'
night and he kept looking back land have no over-all plans for number of deaths and alleviate u n take It any way you
at all those 25 years spent try- organinng water works, power sufferings. " ,' ", Tu,m.LP
ing to work his way up from a plants or other utilities in case It emphasized that an easy-to- to the n?ms or the aun
young deputy district attorney In the atom's fury is unleashed on read manual should be published The sun has its own dailv
f rtnn f-nlif then aft a tax an- ihair lnmllti . .... . . . . J
' " r . lo acauaint OOClOrs anfl lavmen rvnnnlhilitv hut th n oonni
with the known facts about have nn ipnw nf crnllt Thovwintf
Philadelphia reported far- atomic contamination and how where they wish to th goal set
to aeai wun it. for them before they were eggs.
praiser, then on to Washington
always working for the pub
lic, reaching progress toward or-
And so, with no one particu- sanizins its doctors, nurses and
larly left to work for. Ray pass- medlcal facilities to handle the
ea away last weex. tie was tax- tremendous number of casu-
en to no government hospital.
His funeral will not be held in
state. But his ' death will be
mourned by many little people
who knew Ray Wakefield as a
friend of man.
alties that would result from a
bomb blast over its metropoli
tan area.
At Chicago, police, fire and
other official agencies were or
ganizing under the direct super
vision of Mavor Martin Kennel-
ANOTHER PUBLIC SERVANT y to be prepared for an attack.
Petite Ann Alpern, noted city Their plans did not include any
solicitor of Pittsburgh, Pa., gave program lor civilian parucipa
OPEN FORUM
More Opinions on Court House
(Editor's Note Letters to the Editor, limited to 50 words,
are solicited expressing an opinion on the proposed plana for
the exterior of the Marion eonnty courthouse.)
senators on the interstate com
merce committee a piece of her
nimble mind the other day.
Testifying on the stymied re
appointment of Leland Olds, li
beral federal power commission
er, the lady lawyer from Pitts
burgh asked, in effect, whether
the committee was taking orders
from the American
To the Editor I fail to see the slightest co-ordination in
architecture of the proposed courthouse and state buildings.
If we must resort to building a Buck Rogers conception of a
tion. glorified factory, we ought, by all means, to secure another
Many cities expressed the location. JOE E. DeWITT
hop that the army would aid 145 Candalaria Blvd., Salem
them in the vital program, but
a representative of the 5th To the Editor Our federal government in Washington, D. C,
Army at Chicago startled the has a capital building of Greek architecture, which I think makes
city s special defense commit- a beautiful capital building. We have a state capitol building
way
me.
"And what,"
demands the
lady from Tex
as, "do you find
encouraging in
that? They're
reading about
Russia having
th atomic
bomb, I sup
pose or about
Marshal Tito
and his troubles with th Krem
lin or about th cold war."
Wo
59
from the private gas-and-oil
lobby which is so vehemently
fighting Olds' confirmation.
The big gas companies, Miss
Alpern asserted, were against
Olds because he opposed legiS'
tee by warning that the army of Greek architecture to conform with the capitol building in
first Would be engaged in de- Washington, D. C. Now the courthouse of Marion county . . .
people or fending the country and would should have Greek architecture to conform with the state capitol
help alleviate atomic disaster and
only if its men and materiel
were not needed elsewhere.
The Chicago planners were of
the opinion that civilian de-
fens organizations would be of
buildings.
BERYL E. BIRCH
3265 Triangle Drive, Salem
Red Feathers
lation exempting them from ie- little help despite the so-called
deral rate regulation. Hopely report of last year which
i m not concernea about, tne called for an organized civil de-
SMirtH MMtraito
fate of one man," testified Miss
Alpern, "but I am concerned
about the fate of American con
sumers. We cannot afford to Jet
tison men like Leland Olds who
have devoted their careers to
protecting consumers. The one
fense force of
persons.
10 to 15 million
Washington police pointed
out that they have proposed a
creation of civil force a year
ago but said they have heard
thing his enemies don't like nothing since.
about him is that they can t One of the few defense set-ups
swerve him from his public du- in the capital is a concrete and
ty-" steel bomb shelter nine feet un-
In th very middle of a sen- derground where President Tru-
tence. Sen. Lyndon "Lying- man might find refuge under
Down" Johnson of Texas, elect- the White House,
ed by those who opposed Pappy Philadelphia officials said the
O'Daniel but who has been veer- plan organized by their atomic
News Travels Slowly in Washington
Washington A Fred Bailey, an official of the National
Grange, went to set an agricnltur department official. While
waiting he casually asked a stenographer what sb thought f
th Itrannan plaa of farm prlc supports.
"Who's Brannan?" asked th atenographer.
Why." replied Bailey, "he's secretary of agriculture'."
"H !s? Then what breams f Cllntoa Andersoa?"
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