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4 Salem, Oregon, Friday, October 7. 1949
Another Martyr in the Making
The drama of an officer in the nation's armed forces
fighting- for the life of his branch of the service is not new.
When Captain Crommelin of the United States Navy
defies orders and leaks uncomplimentary information to
the press, he is jeopardizing his position in the service.
But in his mind, he apparently feels that such action is the
only way the nation is going to be awakened. He feels the
navy is being crippled by the supreme command and the
administration.
General "Billy" Mitchell was court-martialed after the
first world war for preaching airpower as against sea pow
er. He was so outspoken he, too, brought on the wrath of
the top command and he suffered the consequences. He
predicted that airplanes would sink battleships. He made
the "rash" statement that planes would fly more than 250
miles an hour. He was certain that planes some day would
make regular flights across the Pacific between China and
the United States.
Now Captain Crommelin, who Is 46 and a veteran navy
flyerr foresees the air arm of the navy being weakened to
the point of ineffectiveness. To him, the United States
will hurt only itself by following such a policy. Thus, he
knowingly takes steps that could lead to a court-martial
in order to bring the facts to the public.
In answer to Crommelin, Secretary of the Navy Mat
thews, new to office, denied that navy morale is bad.
Crommelin had said the opposite, because of top level de
cisions which are nibbling away at the nation's first-line
of defense. Defense Secretary Johnson says the navy is
far superior to any other navy in the world.
- Crommelin's fight is one for balanced armed forces for
the nation. He is not seeking to minimize the effective
ness of the air force. He is trying to bring dramatically
to the attention of the people of the nation the need for
the navy's air arm to be encouraged, not discouraged as
It is by present supreme command policy.
Crommelin, who saw in the Pacific the need for balanced
forces (each branch of the services strong enough to sup
plement the others), apparently has resigned himself to
the martyr role. He will receive surprising support. The
nation hasn't forgotten another martyr of a quarter of a
century ago, "Billy" Mitchell.
Russia's New Satellite
Russia has created its keystone satellite state by pro
claiming a new "All-German state" in East Germany with
Berlin as its capital and demanding liquidation of the new
West German government at Bonn. Wilhelm Pieck, Mos
cow trained German communist, announced the formation
to delegates representing the German People's Council, a
pro-Soviet public forum without legal powers. These dele
gates were Soviet selected, not elected by the people, and
voted to become the lower house of the "German Demo
cratic Republic."
Elections will be held a year hence and Piest will be pres
ident in the interim. He read a 20-point program for the
new "All-German State," evidently endorsed by Moscow,
or it couldn't have been official. It included :
1. Designation of Berlin as capital.
2. Re-estahllshment of Germany ! political and economic
Unity.
3. Liquidation of the west German state at Bonn.
4. Building of an all-German government for an all-German
democratic republic.
5. Reunification of Berlin, now divided Into four sectors
under the American, British, French and Soviet occupation
lorces.
Russia arranged in advance for the recognition of the
new German state, just as it did for severing diplomatic
relations with Yugoslavia, with all its satellites, and for
formal notes to the Western Allies protesting establish
ment of the West German state at Bonn as a violation of
the Potsdam pact.
Preceding the proclamation of the new government, a
manifesto was adopted and sent to all Germans calling for
a fight against the West German republic by a "national
front" including all Nazis who affiliate as "democrats."
As long as Stalin can get what he wants without war, as
he has been doing all along, there will be no third world war,
whether or not he has the atom bomb. Why should be
risk war when he goes right along annexing territory with
out it?
BV BECK
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
5-Percenter Hearings Off,
So Pearson Tells More
By DREW PEARSON
Washington When good old Clyde Hoey, the swallow-tailed
senator from North Carolina, announced there would be no
more hearings on General Vaughan, John Maragon and tha five
percenters, It didn't surprise anybody on the inside.
For insiders have known how much pressure has been exerted
by the White
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
House to shut
the 1 n v e stiga
tion up. '
One month
ago it was an
n o u n c e d that
public hearings
would be sus
pended In order J,
tn ffive the com-
... ... ea S-.J
m 1 1 1 e e stall a !t (I "
chance to do fc .ii-d
more Investigat- '"
Ing. also to give Committee
Counsel Rogers a two-week va- Thanksgiving there.
nett.'am sending you herewith
reprint of an advertisement on
'Yachting' and 'Motor Boating.'
Mr. Bennett would like you to
contact Commodore Moran. of
the small boats division, Mari
time commission Miss Barrett,
sec'y. and find out what condi
tion this is in, and what price
they are asking for same.
"Mr. Bennett Is feeling fina
after his little rest in the coun
try, and Is planning on leaving
here again tomorrow to spend
SIPS FOR SUPPER
cation.
Since then, however, White
House pressure has been terrific
with even staff investigators
threatened with loss of govern
ment pensions.
"Hope you are in the best of
health, and with the kindest re
gards. ..."
At the time this letter was
Z)nuy i in cvtoy lO t. fy
& CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST tf-sSjL -Tabu.
fr HAS adeouate pfc ; LD. hr'-Vl
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I MANY BOYS WANT TO C0OW-
9 TO BCllKC DACf?-JUST 1 BOY IN lO SAYS
WE DOES.' fyajoAMsmf, a m auto, AriAMny
Wasted Effort
By DON UPJOHN
Wonder if this scurry to build new school Buildings is really
necessary? For instance, we were handed today a copy of the
latest Western Union bulletin containing canned telegrams ar
ranged for the convenience of the customers. Now you don't
even have to think, know how to read, or write, or even wave a
pencil. Te 1 e
over by committee investigators
or carefully stowed away in
pigeonholes.
One of the most interesting
figures which Senator Hoey and
his staff have turned their back
on is David A. Bennett, the per-
Lciu
grams are all
d r o v 1 d e d for
congratulatio n si
on engagements,
promotions, o n
lpnt Inn In nf
an artist, open
ing of a store, on
making a speech,
commencement ,
thank y o u s, d upjoim
bon voyage,
birthdays, weddings, births, an
versaries, condolences for be
reavements and a host of good
luck telegrams on new jobs, on
taking examinations, on a new
book written or show produced,
for a new home or a new job.
Nothing overlooked. So with
folks not reading magazines,
books or newspapers any more
one Informed her that she must
have a license for the chair. Now
she has a real automobile li
cense plate displayed on the
front of the chair. She also has
horn on the vehicle, it ap
pears that she Is having a good
time and enjoying being waited
on by her many friends.
Truth in Advertising
Hollywood (U.R) A group of
indignant movie starlets today
organized a new "AFL" the
Anti-Falsie legaue. "Our motto
is 'Ban unnatural stuffing tricks,'
said President Peggy Dow.
"Look hard at the first letter in
each word, and you'll see our
point." Shelley Winters was
named vice president and Doro
thy Hart secretary. The girls
said they were tired of repeated
inferences in the public prints
thn in nmp ensa- written to Maragon, Bennett al-
tional leads have been glossed readv haa, the fo,1,low,i"g '"xury
power, 121 foor 221 tons; "Val
erie V," 84 foot, 124 tons; "Caro
line," 45 foot, 24 tons; "Nedra
B," 111 foot, 101 tons.
All these, except the "Valerie
V," were purchased direct from
the maritime commission. And
fume manufacturer, who sent wnen the maritime commission
seven deep freezes to General was asked to disclose who else
Vaughan, Mrs. Truman and oth- bid on the vessels, and how
er bigwigs at about the time much was bid, the information
Vaughan's friend, John Mara- was refused,
gon, was trying to smuggle When asked whether the bids
Bennett's perfume into the had been advertised, Miss Mary
United States disguised as Barrett, referred to in the above
champagne for the White House. lettcr to Maragon, flew Into a
There are some other interest-
: 4V.ina . V. ., i 1M Hannah
which the public doesn't know, One reason why Senator Hoey important figure
and most of the record is in gov- "jay wish to deal lightly with in our civihza
ernment files where any senate "e man who had so many deep tion the house
investigator could easily dig it frees and yachts at his dis- wife
out posal was because Harry Tru- They iret
This column doesn't have the man' when vi President was a about the prob
same power to subpoena records 8uest aboard the Bennett yachts, lems of the busl
as does Senator Hoey of North In falt, the yachts were used nessman s e t
Carolina, but since the senate for some of the famed Truman- limits to t h e
committee has decided to back- Vaughan poker parties, and this stint of the lab
slide on the job, this writer has long-time intimacy between the oring man, and
j v.-.. u. i, ..,., President of the United States vote cash on the
the senator from North Carolina an dthl President of the Verley barrel head to protect the farm-
Send your "Odds" questions on any subject to "The Wizard
of Odds," care of tha Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Handouts to Housewives?
'Yes' and 'No Say Ladies
By HAL BOYLE
New York W) Do American housewives want government
handouts?
Well yes and-no. The girls are as divided on this question as
on any other.
A few days ago I wrote a piece pointing out that legislatures
have sadly over
looked the most
Hal Borli
left off.
Mrs. Sue Persons of Mandan,
N. D., thought it might be simp
ler if women just did more to
solve the problems of govern
ment and international politics
even against male objections
they are "getting too big for
their unmentionables."
"We have had a lot of ex
perience cleaning up messes be
fore," she added firmly, "and
we couldn't make a worse
muddle."
An Illinois wife observed:
"The housewife should be con-
but lust looking at the Dictures
getting their entertainment over hat practically all young worn
radio or television, it's beginning n wear falsies.
to look as though maybe all this
rush to educate the robots may
be wasted dough. But, doggone
it, there's on thing we overlook
ed, they do have to get some ed
ucation to read the comics.
What, No Operator's License?
(Independence Enterprise)
Dalvina Robinson is confined
to a wheel chair due to a leg in
jury. She was wheeling the chair
up the street this week and some-
B-r-r-r-h!
Deputy Sheriff Ed Scott who
has the run up into the Detroit
Idanha section filed his report
on his return Thursday night as
follows: "Last night had first
snow In the canyon. All of the
peaks have little snow caps on
them now. Furthermore it is
sure getting cold up there."
days
For instance, here are two in
teresting things which the pub
lic has a right to know about.
Mr. Bennett, at the time he
was giving away deep freezes,
acquired four government air
planes without competitive bid
ding, and four luxury yachts,
three of them from the U.S. gov
ernment.
Perfume company may be why er against rainy days.
Maragon felt that he could, with But for the woman with the
Impunity, label his perfume as
consigned to the White House have vntpH nn in.hnnr k
and try to smuggle it through no cash subsidies, no benefit holiday at the government's ex
mop, the lady of the house, they idfr by the government. Pos
have voted no 40-hour week. lblv Pension plan or a week's
pense to do a little traveling. Of
course I would suggest a set
time for the pensions to start
after 25 years of faithful devotion."
Yea, the melancholy
have come for fair.
DISASTROUS SHIPWRECK 100 YEARS AGO
Storm Kept Hopeful Irish
From Reaching America
By TOM NOONAN
Cohasset, Mass., Oct. 7 UP) A violent nor'easter raged 100
years ago today along the New England coast studded with
death traps of jagged rock.
Somewhere offshore the brig Saint John labored in mountain
ous seas as it neared the end of a stormy voyage with a band of
Irish emigrants. .
Land was sighted amid driv- vessel. The captain, the stow
ing rain and murk when dawn away and 10 other persons battl
broke. But already the hopes of ed their way to it. An hour later
emigrants from famine-ridden the tide carried all of them safe-
Ireland for a fresh start in a now ly ashore.
U. S. customs. payments, no bonuses for rais-
At that time around 1945 ing the nation's chief crop chil-
one Bennett yacht was moored dren.
n.thtPSl?n!aC'anJ0ther.a.tSaV' We. should congress and
gatuck, Mich., and another in President Truman sct up , new
Florida. Since then -perhaps cabinet postsecretary of tht
because he has been less active home? should housewive, get
Four yachts are a lot for any nnsH of ihrp vnrht. hut .till Tensions.
one man to have. For that mat- uBIn. h. NHr n
ter, so are four airplanes. How- ' Scores of ladies across the
ever, Deep - freeze - giver Ben- T?Pnptf' imuArninont . nnr. l"nd dropped their dust cloths.
nett wasn't satisfied with four chased airplanes also open an sat down and wrote me how they
yacnis ana waniea 10 ouy an- Interpctinff phantpr whtrh Kpna. lel1 Anu tneir answer as xo
other. To this end, a letter was tor Hoey's committee has whether the government owed how and when we please, what
written to jonn maragon, care strangely neglected. Ben nett lnem "nyming Dolled aown to to cook, when to spank, what to
of General Vaughan at the purchased, without competitive this: say to the better half, but we'd
White House, by one of Ben- hlHHinir thrp naw nrnmman 1 "Yes. of course." have to Day some lerk S ner
On tht other hand, Mrs. Irene
Pilackas of Chicago Heights, III.,
said flatly:
"We absolutely do not want
any handouts from Washington.
"We a be sure to lose not only
our independence to clean house
" 2 "No, naturally.'
cent for telling us off.
"The woman who has
chil-
neus suDorainaies. ine leuer, jRF-6-B's, together with
Hafpri Nnv 1Q 1Q4S i in thp t
... . : ' urmy iranspori plane. n mniv, ,(. uiti-
tee tat .In he n' 7" P,TJ P wUhZS fn and .horn, never mope, or
l!':..-iVn ?rn-!?ninTrnt 1" Jun 1Si6 'P' which excludes from economic i frustrated. We're too busy. We
I..?,.. .I , ; ".'J.""" " st to tne consid(,ratin ,h. wnrW , fh. don't want any special recogni
tion, we reap our rewards as we
go along."
Yes, ma'am! t I I
Who brought the subject up
anyway?"
world had given way to fears
for their very lives
About that time the sea sub
sided. A rescue boat was launch
ed from the Cohasset shore with
Almost none of the emigrants the help of men from among
ine nuncirecii wno naa waicnea
ever reached America alive!
most disastrous shipwreck ever
to occur in the outer reaches of
Boston Harbor.
Playing Cheap Politics
The Truman administration is playing cheap politics
with the anti-trust laws and misusinir its vast power pres
sure to force through its "fair deal" program of state so
cialism by devious devices.
Recently suits have been launched against the du Ponts,
not because they are a monopoly that oppresses the public,
but because of their mere "bigness."
As a matter of fact, big business, if it is managed in the
public interest, is no threat to public welfare, especially
when it follows an enlightened policy of decreasing prices
by quantity production and increasing payrolls and putting
their profits into research and creation of new useful prod
ucts, as the du Touts have in originating chemical produc
tion, such as dyestuffs, rayon, paints, synthetic rubber,
cellophane, nylon, etc.
Another suit for the crime of bigness is that against the
A. 4 P. T. company, greatest of food store chains with
over 7000 of them. It is being prosecuted not for monopo
listic practices but because it benefits consumers by un
derselling competitors a strange perversion of the intent
of the law.
Now the American Medical association and its affiliated
medical organizations are being investigated in a campaign
to scare physicians Into abandoning their opposition to com
pulsory health Insurance. A few years ago the doctors
were being excoriated because they did not provide a pro
gram of cheap prepaid medical care. Now they are perse
cuted because they have belatedly co-operated to provide
both prepaid medical and hospital service.
Meanwhile the biggest monopolies of them all, the labor
unions, who refuse American citizens their inherent right
to work, even on federal projects, unless they pay dues to
nd submit to regimentation by labor bosses, remain not
only exempt from anti-trust laws, but are subsidized by
tax exemption. And furthermore, the administration re
fuses to enforce the labor-management laws against their
nation-wide strike against public welfare.
. ., , nij helplessly from the shore. Row-
hours the Saint John became the !"K t0 s?a' re? Ue" IPUcd
nit? survivuis uuui.
Though there still were some
persons alive on the shattered
hrio iho rcriipr ocinmpH all
One hundred and forty-three had been taken from the Saint
persons perished in the boiling John. ,0 they continued on to
waters near Minot s Light In- the Britisn brig Kathleen which
eluding 99 emigrants. rode out the storm at anchor
Only 12 survived including nearby.
Captain Oliver, skipper of the Among the emigrants who
brig, and a 14-ycar-old Irish lad died were Patrick Swaney and
who was a stowaway. his 11 children.
Despite every trick of seaman-
ship at Captain Oliver's com- Author Henry David Thoreau
mand the ancient brig was swept arrived in Cohasset the next day
by hill-high breakers onto the en route to Cape Cod.
Grampus, rocky tomb of many As he walked by Cohasset
a more sturdy ship. common he noted an immense
Waves poured over the ship freshly dug grave where many
sweeping emigrants and crew- of the victims were about to be
men to death. buried.
Later, Thoreau was to write
More than half the Saint in detail of his observations of
John's cargo had been lost when the tragedy,
her jolly boat was swept over- His account cast strong doubt
board. About 25 persons jumped on the Saint John's seaworthln
into the little craft which soon ess. After an examination of
capsized. pieces of the brig's wreckage in-
Only Captain Oliver and the eluding one 40-foot section, he
stowaway were able to swim wrote: "Some of these timbers
bark to tht Saint John. . . . were so rotten that I could
Then the brig's long boat was almost thrust my umbrella
swept some distance from the through them."
it, this column is glad to publish government was $375,568. The
the letter as follows: three navy Grummans were pur-
"Mr. John Maragon, chased for $25,000 each on Oct.
co Brig. Gen. Harry 9 1946 Their orjginai cost to
Vaughan s Office, the government was $83,819
White House, eacn, Tne pianes were pur-
Washington, D.C. chased in the name of the Al-
"Dear Jonn: bert Verley Co.
"At the request of Mr Ben- (coprrimt ii
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Half the People of U.S.
Have No Religion at All?
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
li.Fl Foreign Affilr Antlyit)
The Bishop of London, Dr. John W. C. Wand, says he was
surprised to find during his recent six weeks tour of the United
States that fifty percent of Americans "have no religion at all."
The Church of England prelate remarks that in England prac
tically everybody owns to having a religion, and "if he is not very
a b o u tir
home woman." Her idea was that
mothers mold the character of
future citizens, and should be
paid in some way by the state
for this Important function.
New fragrance with
a destinyl
sure
things and docs
not go to church
rogul a r 1 y, he
says he Is
church of Eng
land." Dr. Wand
doesn't define
the term "re
ligion" in his
little statement
OPEN FORUM
Court House Plans Comment
(Editor's Note Letters to the Editor, limited to it words,
are welcomed expressing an opinion on the proposed plans
for the exterior of the Marlon county courthouse.)
To the Editor: It was not my Intention to get into the court
home controversy again so soon. They pushed me.
It's the old clock. Seems as though the court house clock is
(o Salem what Big Ben Is to London.
Me. I'm for keeping the four-sided clock and the fal on top,
too. That scale of Justice Is not such a bid idea.
ELIZABETH WILLIS
Salem
The visitor promptly confis
cated the entire art outfit and
rushed to a telephone. Within
a matter of minutes he had re
cruited four other distinguished
illustrators and they immediate
ly foregathered in one of their
studios.
Then the five all of them
busy in their own right set
to work, each according to his
special talents. The specialist
In drawing pretty girls took the
panel which called for one. A
tennis action picture went to the
expert In that type of thing. And
so on. until the series had been
provided for.
Thus, in a few hours the
panels were completed and dis
patched to their destination.
...
While I was calling at the
hospital, one of the quintet drop
ped in to see how the sick man
was getting along and the lat-
ing a correct life in the eyes er tried to express his gratitude
of Heaven. Anyway, what I'm for the contribution of his col
leading up to Is a homely little leagues.
story which I encountered last The visiting artist flushed and
night. squirmed:
An artist friend of mine crack- "Forget It," he growled,
ed up a few days ago and Is in "There Isn't one of ut who
hospital awaiting a serious op- hasn't been helped by you when
eration. He is one of Ameri- he was in a jam."
ca's foremost Illustrators, whose Well, that's all there is to
work all of you must have seen, my story, and it could have had
When he collapsed he was Just Its setting In Canada or Latin
starting to do five pictures for America or Europe or Asia,
an important rush order. But It happened In America
In desperation, he took this where half the people among
work to the hospital with him, whom, I auspect, my five might
and was struggling helplessly be placed "have no religion at
with his crayons when an artist all."
friend called. Or have they? I wonder. ,
Not being a
theologian myself, but in seek
a definition, I am referred by
my dictionary to the new tefta
men t James 1:27 where I
read:
"Pure religion and undefiled
before God and the Father is
this, (for man) to visit the fa
therless and widows in their af
fliction, and keep himself un
spotted from the world.
That, I take it, involves fol
lowing the Golden Bule and liV'
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