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4 Salem, Oregon, Thursday, October 6, 1949
Russia Set the Pace
American Federation of Labor leaders in session at St.
Paul claim success in cementing a labor-farmer political
alliance for a joint drive in the 1950 congressional elections
"in electing out friends and defeating our enemies."
The labor organizations have raised a multi-million dol
lar slush fund for purging those congressmen that have
represented all the people instead of selfish pressure
groups but whether the farmers can be delivered by their
leaders remains to be seen.
Labor leaders want the Taft-Hartley bill defeated and
the right to strike at their whim against public welfare,
as they are doing now, and the farm leaders want subsi
dies continued in high support prices for surplus products
based on war time markets, and the consumer to pay the
bill.
Both sides overlook the basic desire of laborers to buy
food products at low costs, and the farmers to pay low
wage scales for farm labor, so their real interests conflict,
for the higher the labor costs the higher the food costs and
what they put in one pocket they take out of the other.
Russia has shown how the plan works out for a labor
farmer government. The communists organized the So
viets adopted as their battle cry the unity of the prole
tariat (working men) and peasants (farmers) and adopted
as a national flag the hammer as the emblem of the pro
letariat and the sickle as the emblem of the peasants.
The hammer was used to beat the Russian workers down
to starvation wages based on production output, their
unions destroyed and the proletariat reduced to serfdom.
The sickle was used to harvest the farmers. They were
promised the land they tilled. But their land and crops
were confiscated, the Kulaks (those farmers owning their
land) lost their farms and were transported to Arctic star
vation slave labor camps as criminals to perish miserably.
All property nationalized, collectivized farms transformed
the peasants into the proletarians to be transported and
utilized in industry as desired by the ruling hierarchy.
Whether the proposed labor-farm alliance will also adopt
the hammer and sickle as an emblem in its political power
purge remains to be seen.
Welcome Rains
Fall rains and stories on water prospects in the Pacific
Northwest come almost at the same time.
A few days ago the Bonneville power administration
warned of the threat of an early power shortage because
of reduced flow in the Columbia river. No sooner had that
appeared, however, than the rains came.
It is still too early to determine the extent of these cur
rent fall rains, but it is plain that the region faces another
possible brown-out this coming winter if waters in the
Columbia don't rise enough.
If water flow returns to normal for the coming months,
the Pacific Northwest will have increased power for its
use this winter. Grand Coulee dam, for instance, will have
about 360,000 kilowatts greater capacity than last year,
because of new installations.
In this same connection, news from Washington, D.C.,
tells of a record appropriation for waterways of the na
tion. More than $100 millions have been included in an
agreement between house and senate conferees for the Pa
cific Northwest. This will benefit the entire region. Closer
to home, however, is the figure of $9.5 millions for the
Detroit dam on the North Santiam river. These millions
will bring more power that much closer to reality.
Down in Lane county, dedication of the Dorena dam
later this month will mark completion of the third project
in the Willamette valley basin program. This dam, on the
Row river, tributary of the coast fork of the Willamette
river, will be completed nine months ahead of schedule.
This particular dam is proposed as a storage unit in thR
flood control program and in plans for increased low-water
flow on the Willamette river.
In other words, progress is being made in the Pacific
Northwest toward getting more pow-er thanks, too, to
the help of nature. At the same time, the prospect of an
ohcr winter of power shortage, unless enough rain and
snowfall, is sufficient to permit no let-up in continued
pushing of proper development of the region.
Congress Eyes Adjournment
The social st-iurity expansion bill, approved by the house
Wednesday has been shelved by the senate until next year
u it was not or. the president's "must" list. Congres has
Its eyes on adjournment and the democratic leaders figure
that all "must" legislation could be out of the way by the
latter part of October.
The senate originally had hoped to adjourn its first
session on October 15 a week from Saturday. But its
failure to act earlier this week on the controversial farm
bill forced the lawmakers to alter their tentative schedule.
The revised farm hill will come up next Monday. After
that, the senate still must act on legislation to stimulate
U.S. investment abroad and on a motion to discharge the
judiciary committee from further consideration of the
displaced persons bill. Also on the must list are several
appropriations and other measures still tied up in confer
ence committees.
The social security bill passed by the house will:
1. Extend old age and survivors' insurance tn 11.000,000 more
workers, raising the number covered from 3S.000.000 to 46.000,
000. 2. Boost benefits by 70 percent or more.
I. Create new disability Insurance.
4. Increase pay roll taxes gradually over the next 20 years
to I percent on both worker and his employer.
Produce Too Successful to Sell
Litchfield, Mich. U.o Harry Anderson's turumbera were to
if that ha enuldn't market them.
He grew one that was 20 Inches long end weighed four and
half pounds. The seeds, obtained from Syria, produred about
1(0 encumbers.
Anderson said they looked snore like wiloraelena,
BY BECK
Actions You Regret
ueSmTiJLWXAIt, OF MARRVINSt
SYWti A HE-MAN WHO LOVES THE GREAT
frS&S? xffifi OUTDOORS SEEMS MORE LIKE A ,
5ZiMt2' Jj&WpA nightmare at four a.m. on jftM
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Reuther's Grandstanding
Put Off Ford Settlement
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Inside story of the Ford-United Auto Workers
agreement on pensions was that it could have been settled exactly
one week earlier except for one thing. Walter Reuther didn't
want it settled too easily.
On Friday, Sept. 23, the redheaded chief of the United Auto
s u d-
ay GUILD
Wizard of Odds
WW :
Workers
denly broke off
his negotiations.
Both sides had
been pretty
much In agree
ment. Every
thing was going
well.
But suddenly yd'
Reuther told ?J
John B u g a a. FjA
chief negotia- i:
tor for Henry ' r.r
Ford:
"I can't come to an agreement
without first threatening you
with a strike
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Too Late, Anyway
By DON UPJOHN
Pacific University at Forest Grove is reported to be following
the current trend and has interdicted the use of paddles in the
hazing of freshmen. We haven't been advised as to whether this
prohibition is done by the way of a humane act, or just the futility
of the thing. By the time a guy reaches the age he can become
freshman In
a
college, It's too
late for paddles.
They should
start in the first !
grade, but that,
too, has become
o 1 d - f ashioned
and the results
seem obvious.
It seems, at
least, that resi
dents of Brook
lyn and
to do with that escaped convict
giving himself up and asking to
be taken back into the safe en
virons of the big house. Most
any guy wandering around in
the woods alone these nights
and days with the guns popping
around him would be glad to
get back behind some high and
bullet proof walls.
Association." And when you
look up their contributors, you
find among them such small and
struggling firms as the U. S.
Steel corporation and Standard
Oil of New Jersey.
Another struggling little com
pany which contributes to these
small business lobbying groups
is American Rolling Mill. Then
there is another very small out
fit that most people never even
heard of named the Chrysler
Motor corporation, together with
Sears Roebuck, and a "very
So negotiations were broken small" steel company called Re-
0ff puouc aieei.
Strike news flared in the Then there ' that small glass
headlines. A strike deadline manufacturing company Lib-
was even issued for midnight oy-uwens rora, ana inai lime
IadrteynSePiwnnyngr0rto meSt" S.Z MocKENZIE'S COLUMN
give the auto workers an old- screw company,
age pension of $100 a month Total receipts of the small
including government pensions, business economic foundation in
but the wily Walter Reuther 1948 were $60,031, and Con
wanted to sell his union on the gressman Patman, interested in
Idea that he was winning a ascertaining how much money
tough victory. came from big business mas-
NOTE When the strike dead- oueradlng as little business, has
line rolled around on Sept. 29, call'd DeWitt Emery, president
the agreement provided for al- of the outfit, as a witness to find
most the same terms as were out.
discussed on Friday, Sept. 23. NOTE Most Indefatigable de
But the intervening strike nulla- fenders of small business in
baloo had helped Reuther ce- Washington are Congressman
ment his hold on the un- Patman and Georee Meredith.
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GRADUATES ARE HAVING
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2T01 INCREASE SINCE
1940.
ion, though disrupting relations former counsel of the senate functioning, there will ensue a
between the union and the Ford small business committee.
Send your "Odds" questions on any subject to "The Wizard
of Odds," care of the Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon.
East-West Tug-of-War
Over Germany Intensified
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
(un Portlfo Affair Analyst)
Russia shows signs of being about to create a new, communist"
dominated German state out of her eastern zone of occupation,
with Berlin as its capital.
This will be calculated to offset the German republic recently
established at Bonn by the three western zones under guidance
of America, Britain and France.
When these two Germanys are
n.n upjha Random Harvest
Pueblo, Colo. M"l Uncle Sam
those living south of has frowned on farmer How-
the Mason and Dixon line have ard Willhite's alleged "harvest-
one thing in common. They all
hate the "damn Yankees.
How to Get Your Deer
Lebanon Lester Bateson of
route 2. Lebanon, is advising fel
low hunters to get lost and get
a deer. Bateson was hunting in
the Ochoco forest near Burns
when he became lost. While
wandering about in an attempt ,tretch 0, road from
to get nis Deanngs, ne came
across a five-point 179-pound
buck. After bagging the deer,
he continued his wanderings un
til he found his camp. Buck and
hunter arrived safely In Lebanon.
ing" of 20 rural mail boxes with
a grain binder on his truck.
Willhite. 36, was arraigned be
fore a U. S. commissioner yes
terday on charges of destroying
mail boxes. He was released on
$500 bond. U. S. attorney Max
Bulkley said Willhite's binder
clipped off all but three of 23
mail boxes along a 20 -mile
Holly,
Colo., tavern to his home.
Next week one of the banks
here will start remaining open
until S p.m. This will make It
handy in getting pennies and
Which reminds us to wonder nickels In change for the park
if the deer season had anything lng meters.
Still Chases Fortune at 98
Big Bear Valley, Cal. U.P Prospector Jim Erwln, grizzled,
tanned and healthy at 98, still hopes to find his "pot of gold"
In the rugged San Bernardino mountain country.
Erwln, an old-time Indian fighter, came to Big Bear Valley
In 1884 after mining lead In Missouri. He is believed to be
the oldest living resident of the area and remembers the
hectic, roaring days of Holcomb and Big Bear Valleys.
A foreman at the old Lucky Baldwin mine, Erwln drove
six-horse stages and even took turn at boxing when he
fought a famous heavyweight for a $600 wager. Old-timers
who remember the bout recall that Erwln won the fight
without bothering too much.
He still walks to his mining property, five miles from his
home, and except for an occasional mining trip out of the
area, he has apent the last 6$ years In San Bernardino
County.
company.
JOE BALL, LOBBYIST
Nobody much has heard of
Minnesota's sad-faced Senator'
Joe Ball since he was defeated
last year.
At first, Joe toyed with the
Idea of becoming a newspaper
columnist almost a tougher
racket than being a senator.
But that didn't seem to pan out,
so now Joe, after some unhappy
months of indecision, has turned
up as a lobbyist.
Joe's job is quite
one when you consider that
some lobbyists rake down around
fifty grand. For the ex-senator
from Minnesota is draw
ing only around $8,000 as the
tCoprriiht 1S4B)
tug-of-war between Russia and
the three democracies to achieve
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
It's Enough to Drive
A Hatless Man to Cover
By SAUL PETT
(For Hal Boyle Who Is Traveling)
New York JP) This is a rough week for us men who don't wear
hats.
By Saturday, if we make it that long, we'll probably feel
mj.j unAmerican.
xou see, ine people wno mane ana sen nais soia oniy
72,000,000 hats
make
more.
last year for
about $250,000,
000, and this
lobbyist for the association of year they would
American ship owners.
These are the ship owners
who don't get government sub
sidies, and part of Joe's job is
to see that they do get them.
If you recall how vigorously
Joe fought against so-called
"statism" when he was in the
senate, you can get some idea
how distasteful this lobbying job
is going to be also, how broke
Joe must have been to take it.
like to
and sell
So-o-o-o
This is na
tional hat week.
Sail rati
a united Germany communist
if the Soviet wins and democratic
if the western trio are success
ful. The future history of contin
ental Europe will be heavily in
fuenced by the outcome of this
struggle, for ultimately Ger
many may well resume her old
position as the keystone of cen
tral Europe.
That is, she will resume it if
she is reunited. And on that
score there can be small doubt
unless events take a wholly un
forseen turn. It isn't the nature
of the Germans to be separated.
By hook or by crook, the two
divisions will unite to restab
lish the Fatherland as soon as
they see an opening.
Naturally, Moscow's hope is to
has special draw western Germany in the
Soviet eastern zone. Thereby
about
tal of the country,
plans, too.
And in New York, up and consolidating the Reich into a
down 20 blocks of Fifth avenue, communist state which would be
the stores are showing hats worn satellite of Russia.
CONGRESS CRITICIZED
Lilienthal Cites Red Tape
As Threat to Atomic Lead
By PAUL F. ELLIS
New York, Oct. 6 (U.B America's leadership In atomic energy
is threatened because the mere competent men are reluctant to
take jobs in government, David E. Lilienthal, chairman of the
U. S. atomic energy commission, reported in a book published
today.
In the book, "This I Do Be- trial, and managerial to keep
lirve," (published by Harper our lead and greatly to increase
and brothers), Lilienthal lays It.
the blame on congress, which he "But there is a genuine threat
said "in recent years has more to America's ability to hold on-
However, Joe's bosses, the un
subsidized ship owners, have
pulled a neat trick which should
materially lessen his work.
In fact, it's one of the neatest
tricks ever pulled in a town
which has seen all sorts of lob
bying tricks. For they managed
to put their former lobbyist,
Lynne Mote, In as assistant coun
sel of the house merchant marine
and fisheries committee.
Mote, who once received$8,
000 as a lobbyist for the ship
owners, now receives $8,800
from the congressional commit
tee which writes the legislation
the ship owners want passed.
A bill HW 5246 is now be
fore congress which would great
ly expand government subsidies
and grant ship owners more fa
vorable tax depreciation. Lynne
Mote, as lobbyist for the ship
owners, helped with this bill.
An intensive
campaign to eli
minate the hat-
less man is being waged in some
500 cities by more than 9,000
hat retailers and 135 manufac
turers. The industry calls this the
greatest promotional campaign
in its history.
There are or will be more ads
in the papers and more commer
cials on the air about men's hats
than ever before. On television,
they're sending fashion shows
and one clinical program which
takes a hat apart and shows how
it's made.
Fashion shows with live
models are planned by depart
ment stores in Chicago, Wash
ington, Richmond and many
other cities. On the air, there is
talk about the "importance of
hats In the history of freedom"
(I. E., when Greek slaves be
came free they wore a felt hat
as the symbol of their freedom).
The Mayor of Philadelphia,
the "Hat city of the east," is re
ported sending a super-deluxe
model to President Truman.
Danbury, Conn., the "Hat capi-
by various great men in the past
200 years.
, In one window, you can see
an orange straw top hat worn
by the Marquis De Lafayette
when he made his triumphal
tour of the United States In
1825.
By the same token the three
western allies are aiming to at
tract eastern Germany into the
Bonn government, if and when
the Russian military grip is re
laxed. a
Economically, the Soviet and
A '.T,, 1?, dwn JI Plement each other but are es-
Daniel Webster's straw hat, Bill
sential to each other. The west
-f"'"". "ogera n the greater portion of the
polo helmet, Daniel Frohman industries, while the east is rich
derby, and high silk toppers rieulturallv
U,. Ti mm.. 11' -1 1 J " - '
"J W,,,!!,,; I) IIU
worn
John Barrymore.
The hat research foundation,
sponsors of the project, tried to
get the historic campaign fedora
worn by Franklin D. Roosevelt
but the government won't let it
out of Hyde Park.
The foundation did get Lin
coln's stovepipe hat and a simi
lar model worn by a man who at
tended his funeral as well as an
admiral's black silk beaver of
1770.
And one leading hat manufac
turer said: "We expect to cover
a lot of heads that haven't been
covered in years."
It's going to be a rough week.
Now that the bill Is before .......
the house merchant marine com- OPEN FORUM
mittee. Mote, as counsel for that
committee, will advise on pass
ing that bill.
and more tended to depart from
a basic principle of our constitu
tion, the separation of the legis
lative from executive or man
agement functions."
to our world leadership in atomic
development, both in weapons
and In nonmilitary fields."
The threat grows out of the
fact, he said, that "the huge and
Lilienthal's book was written complex technical enterprise
before President Truman disclos- necessary to produce and im
ed that the Russians had set off prove these weapons is a federal
an "atomic explosion," but it government activity."
contains passages predicting that
the Soviets and other nations Lilienthal criticized congress
would learn how to make for its interference with the
bombs. atomic developments and said
that "red tape, bureaucratic
He said the United States had frustrations, petty politics, dull,
achieved its leadership in atomic cautious, unimaginative direc
energy because of our democra- tion" may move in "and change
tic form of government and way the whole atmosphere from one
of life, but that the communists of pioneering to dull routine,
were now attacking the Amerl- "Top scientists." he said. "Will
can way in a manner never be- turn to other lines of inquiry;
fore tried by any country. good administrators will have
"There are In this country the nothing to do with such an en
scientific talents required to con- terprise. It will become a fine
tinue and strengthen our leader- nesting place for industrious
ship in atomic energy develop- mediocrity,
mentt." he said. "We have the "America s great lead may
mind, skills Engineering, Indus- soon dwindle."
Latest High School Fad
Lander, Wyo. IUP Rslnhow -colored hair is the latest high
school fad.
Several atudrnts at Fremont County high school have
shown up with eolored hair, some sporting green hair, some
scarlet, some peroxided locks, and some a combination of
colors.
Girls consider one lock of red and one of green acroM
the front ef a halrde as quite fetching.
Mr. Mote, asked whether he
was able to lobby any bills
through congress while employ
ed by the Association of Ameri
can Ship Owners replied:
"No. I wasn't a very effective
lobbyist."
"Do you think you will be
more effective In
position?"
"That is an embarrassing
question."
"Do you think it Is a healthy
pattern for a man to be lobbying
for legislation one week and to
More Opinions on Court House
(Editor's 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 courthouse.)
To the Editor: Fifty-word opinion on the court house compels
brevity and bluntness.
First: It is forbidding, seems to say, "He who enters here leaves
all hope behind."
Second: Its architectural design fits into the beautv of thm
your present otn" buildings like unto a New Deal privy stuck up behind
modern home.
C. M. CRITTENDEN
Hubbard
The west, of course, is much
larger, having an area of some
05.000 square miles and a popu
lation of about 45,000,000. The
Soviet zone contains 46.000
square miles and has a popula
tion of 17,000,000.
However, the eastern zone has
a tremendous drawing card
Berlin, former proud capital of
the Reich, one of the world's
great cities and hub of Euro
pean transportation.
The fact that Berlin is now
divided into four zones which
are occupied by Russia, Britain,
France and America won't pre
clude the projected eastern Ger
man government from claiming
It as the capital.
Ideologically, the advantage In
the battle for unity will lie with
the three western zones.
Carried Away
Memphis, Tenn. UPi You
ran't accuse Hollywood of not
having life-like scenes In "The
Sun Comes Up." One little
boy saw a dog on the screen.
He hastily left his parents to
pet the pup.
THE EMBLEM OF
To the Editor: We appreciate the picture published of the (pro
posed) Marion county court house. My adjective is "horrid." Looka
be employed by the committee as If it has possibilities of becoming a monstrosity in time,
writing that legislation the next Why can't the court house be built more like the state capitol
week'" or perhaps the other state office buildings? Then, if ever it were
"I don't think I am establish- necessary, we could build on a story or a wing without destroying
ing any pattern," Mr. Mote re- any original beauty.
Pl'fd. MRS. LILY KAUP
Some members of the mer- Route 1, Gervais
cnani marine committee flon t
take quite the same view of it.
But anyway, thanks to Mote's
promotion, sad faced Joe Ball
now has a job.
RIG Bt SINKSS
MASQl ERADES
It looks like big business was
now being disguised in sheep's
clothing. At least, that's what
tireless Congressman Wright
Patman of Texas has discovered
about two organizations suppos
ed to champion small business
though actually receiving sup
port from big business.
They are the "Small Business
Economic Foundation'' and the
"National Small Businessmen s
FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP
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Phone 3-5661
466 Court St.
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