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I Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Saturday, October 8, 1949
Battle Over Airline Service for Salem
The first round in the battle to save United Air Lines
gervice to Salem is over.
There was no decision, since It was merely a gathering
of attorneys to decide what did or did not pertain to the
Civil Aeronautics Board's review of the air routes in Ore
gon and Washington. One of the points involved formed
the basis for the battle for Salem. The CAB has put the
question: Why shouldn't West Coast Airlines take over
United's service for Salem?
Two interesting developments came out of this confer
ence which sets the rules, so to speak, for the main hear
ing which will be held later on the question itself before
the board.
One was the intervention of the Post Office department
on behalf of keeping United Air Lines service for Salem.
This welcome support of the city's fight should certainly
be heartening, since mail subsidies are always a determin
ing factor when it comes to routes, whether they be for
air, rail, or water.
The second development was a position West Coast took
In regard to its application to extend service to The Dalles,
along with other points in Oregon. West Coast took the
position that its planes would have to fly over The Dalles
if other points were added to its flight schedules. There
fore, logic dictated that The Dalles should be a part of
West Coast's schedule. At present, United serves The
Dalles, but is willing to give up service to that city on
the Columbia river.
If West Coast takes that position in regard to The
Dalles, how can it take the opposite position in regard to
Salem ? Whether or not United Air Lines is permitted to
continue to serve Salem, Mainliner planes must fly over
Salem on all regular Portland-San Francisco flights. Why
isn't it logical, therefore, to have United keep serving Ore
gon's capital ?
If West Coast doesn't think the CAB should put a "no
stop" sign for West Coast planes possibly to fly over The
Dalles, how can it argue the other way in regard to Sa
lem? So, considering the opening of the battle to keep United
in Salem, the city can figure its position is still as sound as
it has appeared all the way along.
An Autumn Anthology
Poeir, have sung of autumn probably since the inven
tion of language or at least since recording it began. And
in two moods, one exemplified by Ovid as "the fairest sea
son of the year," and the contrasting view by Horace,
"Dread autumn, harvest season of the Goddess of Death."
But all must admit that it provides a flamboyant funeral
setting.
Echoing the optimistic view of Ovid, James Stephens
wrote:
"What once was gold will be gold again,
What once was leaf will be !af again:
All will return, all will be gold."
Whittier paid this tribute, among others to autumn:
"We lack but open eye and ear
To find the Orient's marvels here;
The artlll small voice in autumn's hush,
i, Yon mapie wood the burning bush."
Sir Lawrence Weaver wrote:
"October Is a lover's month because it Includes all the sea
sons, revealing what the years must hold for man and woman
long days of sunshine, obscuring mists, high encounters of
winds, cleansing rains, and whitening frosts."
James Douglas did away with seasonal melancholy in
the following:
"Let us be dore with the stale convention of autumnal sorrow.
Life among the leaves goes down with all its flags flying,
all its fifes playing, all its drums beating."
On the gloomy order, Thomas Hardy wrote:
"Give me the roughest of spring days rather than the lovel'est
of autumn days, for there is death In the air."
Bryant wrote pessimistically:
"The melancholy days have come, the saddest of the year.
Of wailing winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown
and sear."
This page could be filled with similar quotations on
what is, at least in the Willnmette Valley, ordinarily the
most delightful season of the year, with the hills ablaze
with hectic glow of the sunset of the year. Usually we
have a long stretch of the calm beauty and restful peace
of "Indian summer" that ushers in winter. Frost will paint
the landscape with its vivid colors all through fall as
nature prepares for the miracle of spring.
Bridges a Russian Catspaw
Who won Harry Bridges longshoremen's strike in Ha
waii that started on May 1 and was settled Oct. 6 after 169
days on practically the same terms proposed by Governor
Stainback's fact finding board on June 28, and accepted
by the employers?
The strikers lost millions In wages, the three great
industries, sugar, pineapple and coffee, with $200 million
year production, lost tens of millions of dollars, while the
entire population of the Islands, including 20,000 workers
outside the union, were penalized heavily. The main
land was also a heavy loser in loss of ocean trade.
The renl winner In the strike was the Cominform which
during the strike made Harry Bridges jiresident of the
Russian dominated World Federation of Trade. The strike
was utilized as a sort of atomic bomb to cripple America's
production and commerce and to demonstrate what would
happen in case of war with our ships tied up by Bridges'
unions.
President Truman could have intervened and settled
the strike, but he preferred to let the islands suffer rather
than to utilize the Taft-Hartley labor law. As the Ore
gonian says, "the federal government's role in this devas
tating strike was pusillanimous."
So was the conduct of the city officials at The Dalles,
where an attempt to unload a pineapple barge was stopped
by a gang of guons, although the governor furnished state
police protection. The Dalles officials lacked guts and
shamelessly surrendered to the demands of a lawless mob.
For many years, Bridges, who always follows the Com
munist party line, has been engineering disastrous strikes
to paralize Pacific coast shipping and partially succeeded.
In this he has had administration protection or he would
long ago have been deported. While he was being prose
cuted by one branch of the government to satisfy public
opinion, he was being protected by a higher branch, prob
ably to win labor votes. ' '
BY BECK
It Never Fails
""-" 1 J IT'S HAPPENEO A6AlM..gVEBV v J
t"';.. Pi I TIMC we OISCOVER A NIC! QUIET I
JjjAti J, LITTLE RESTAURANT, THE PUBLIC J f. f
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THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Is a Clergyman a Salesman for
Durable Goods or Repeated Sales?
BY REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
ftoctor. St Paul's Episcopal Cbureb
San Francisco One might get the impression that all the
people at a large church convention were clergymen. This is not
the case.
Hundreds of laymen from many walks of life are delegates
to a great church convention apart from the business and de
votion a 1 ses
sions. One of
the great privi
leges and pleas- J
ures ot such a
gathering is the
fellowship en
gendered among
men represent
ing their church
in various parts
of the country.
was with a
f asked me whether I, as a clergy-
Tt man. was a salesman for dur
able goods, or was the product
of a kind that kept the custom
ers coming back again and
again!
I never thought of my profes
sion in this way before. Howev
er, some reply seemed in order.
The question they wanted an
swered was, can religion be
looked upon (from a salesman's
point of view) as durable goods
smau group 01 men wno were lasting a lifetime or is religion
getting acquainted, iney were something, like food, which one
needs day by day?
When one is converted to
some form of religion, does he
keep on feeding on the spiritual
food of religion, or as a convert
does he suffer sudden death as
far as needing any more help
from his church.
Religion is like a breath of
life coming into a new-born
babe. It is the beginning of life.
all executives in one corpora
tion or another. The conversa
tion drifted into the relating of
reasons why they finally took
up the line which brought ulti
mate success.
All started out as salesmen
for one product or another.
One said he started out with
a durable goods concern. He
worked hard and for a long time
to create his first customer. But
when he finally soid him the 7 be converted to religion is to
like the new-born babe, the new
goods, he discovered that inas
much as the product, a bath tub,
was good for 30 years, he had
lost the one customer he had.
After all the big build-up, the
customer as such had met sud
den death!
This man then switched to
selling things that people need
ed again and again, so that when
he worked hard to get a new
customer, the work he did on
him to make the first sale was
convert must keep on breathing
or it will die.
Therefore, as far as religion
is concerned, it remains the pos
session only of those who sustain
it with spiritual food. While re
ligion itself is durable, indivi
duals who embrace it must do
something to keep it within their
own- souls.
The clergyman who under
still a potent factor in selling God leads people to religion
him again and again. should have them continually
After all these men had had coming back for the sustaining
their say pro and con, the men of their faithsl
Police Were Disappointed
New Orleans, UR Obviously disappointed policemen re
ported today that they have been unable to locate the shapely
young woman who strolled nude along Bourbon street Wed
nesday. Her head and shoulders covered with soap and carry
ing a towel.
She walked a block and a half, witness said, before dis
appearing In a taxi.
Police could find no trace of her. "I sure hate that," one
said. "Them's the kind of eases we like to Investigate."
SIPS FOR SUPPER
May Be Answer
By DON UPJOHN
Our old friend Doc Woodmansee, who probably has done more
for our FT & BA than any other local individual, thinks he has
the problem solved in the controversy over the architectural fit
ness of the proposed new courthouse as to the civic scene. "You
can tell 'em for me," said Doc in an early morning street encounter.
"that the beau-
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
U. S. Bows to the British
In Making Commercial Planes
By DREW PEARSON
Washington The aviation industry isn't advertising It, but
the United States is about to lose its superiority in the manu
facture of commercial airplanes.
For years, American-built planes have been used by the French,
the Dutch, even the British. The familiar DC types "Made in
America" have w " "
almost identical to that of Mara
gon's. Maragon's perfume was
valued at $2300. The Jewelry
which Benny tried to bring into
the U.S. was valued at $2131.
Maragon, thanks to his good
friend, General Vaughan, was
permitted to settle his case for
a fine of only $1500.
Jack Benny, however, had no
General Vaughan Inside the
White House. So ht paid a $10,
000 fine, received a suspended
Jail sentence of a year and a
day, and was placed on proba
tion for one year. Benny had not
smuggled the jewelry himself.
Nor had he disguised it as a gift
to the White House. He had giv
en it to Albert N. Chaperau at
the latter's suggestion that he
would smuggle it for him.
Along with Benny, George
Burns of the radio team of Burns
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
HTanHM ABE THE MOST
DAN6CPOU5 OCCUWWONStM
INSURANCE COMPANIES
PUT DAREDEVILS FIRST,
THEN OIL FIELD SHOOlTRe,
SAN0UO6S. UNDERGROUND
WNERS. AND RACE DRIVERS.
1
been used by
every commer
cial airline in
the world, from
Burma to Pata
gonia. But that day
Is about to pass.
The British
are now ahead
of us in com
mercial air
plane design, b rtinen
while the Swedes are about ev
en and will surpass us soon.
Alert Undersecretary of Com
merce C. V. Whitney has been
visiting England to investigate
British commercial air superior
ity and is reporting that the Brit
ish already have a jet-propelled
transport plane far ahead of
anything even started in the
U.S.A.
Reason for the slump in com
mercial airplane design is that
the republican 80th congress
objected to army funds used lor wife of a New York supreme
dev elopment of commercial court justice, also was fined $2,-
planes. 500 plus three months in jail.
Hitherto, U.S. transport planes while public opinion forced her
have been designed by air force husband to resign from the
funds used in cooperation with bench.
commercial companies. Now that In contrast, Maragon paid only
money is cut off, and the big $1500 which Senator Hoey
airplane manufacturers aren't calls a "usual" settlement
designing new types. while the gentleman who saved
NOTE Both private industry him from further punishment,
and such GOP leaders as John General Vaughan, has not re
Foster Dulles and Guy Gabriel- signed but is still sitting pretty
son have been yelling about at the White House,
"statism." But when government
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ONLY 1 IN S
OF THE AGED
REPORTS HIMSELF
M POOR HEALTH
'WHAT WORD IS USED
MOST IN TELEPHONE
CONVERSATIONS? ASKS
MORTIMER HALL,OF
PORTLAND, ORE. "I BY
2TO10DOS7
Send your "Odds" questions on any subject to "The Wlsard
of Odds," car of tha Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon.
& Allen was fined $8000 and got MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
suspended jail sentence and
probation. Mrs. Edgar J. Lauer,
French Government Crisis
Grew Out of Devaluation
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
((1 roMitn Affair Analrat)
The fall of the French government under Premier Queuille is
not in itself a matter of extreme gravity. It's what must be ex
pected frequently in a country which has such a multiplicity of
political parties that maintenance of a government majority in
parliament is difficult.
However, the present crisis re- The consensus of observers is
fleets far more than domestic that the French government
nolitics. crisis has It roots in the recent
. - j . devaluation of the British nounrl
money is cut off from the avi- DETECTIVES IN B S6 BATTLE "Tth. sterling, which forced a like
ation industry, n tails Denina if the battle over the B-38 gets " , " " I"" devaluation upon Frai
the rest ot the world, and air
plane manufacturers, most of
them republicans, want back
Sets ...,..- r..- devaluation upon France and
any hotter in actual aerial com- location whlch ais0 is so strong- her western European coun-
bat than It is on the ground in
these piping times of peace, then
the "statism" money cut off by we will see the hottest war in
the 80th congress.
CARDINAL SPELLMAN'S TRIP
Prior to Cardinal Spellman's
flight to the Vatican, it was au
thoritatively reported among the
history.
For one airplane manufactur
er Glenn Martin has even re
sorted to putting private detec
tives on the trail of blond,
handsome Stuart Symington, the
Catholic hierarchy that Spell- secretary for air. Symington, de-
man had lost his one time posi
tion as favorite of His Holiness.
Those who have visited at the
Vatican during and since Cardi
nal Spellman's dispute with Mrs.
Roosevelt, report that the pope
was not pleased over Spellman's
voted to his wife and leading an
exemplary life, nevertheless has
had the gumshoe men checking J,uarrel betwn
on him, especially in St. Louis
where he used to live.
Unfortunately for the society
column and the navy, they
outburst and that this was the haven't come up with anything,
chief r eason why the Cardinal NOTE Glenn Martin, who
later called on Mrs. Roosevelt at has specialized on navy planes
Hyde park. jn the past, has been irked be-
At one time Spellman was cause 0f iack of orders from the
considered in line to be papal air forces,
secretary and perhaps the first
American pope in history. But HE DOESN'T WAIT FOR MAIL
now it s reported Inside the hler-
1 v In atvirifmrA In firent Britain. Ties.
That dislocation is causing In- The conservative London
creasingly deep anxiety in the Daily Mail says Queuiile's resig-
chancelleries of the democracies, nation was due largely to Eng-
for it renders peace more vul- land's devaluation, about which
nerable. France wasn't consulted. The
It scarcely can be by mere newspaper adds that the premier
chance that this economic stress has been gravely embarrassed
by the consequent rise in prices.
In any event, an increase in
prices, and fear of inflation,
brought quick demands from
the French labor for Increases
in wages to meet a higher cost
of living. This was reflected in
the cabinet which became di
vided over the issue.
sees an intensi
fication of the
bitterness in the
Moscow and the
fiery Balkan
state of Yugo
slavia. Russia is
cracking down
harder on the j
rebellious Mar
shal Tito as
western Europe
discloses weaknesses.
j-" it ILj
fer J
JSY I
DaWIII Haekeoila
As previously indicated, this
is a bad moment for political or
economic crises In western Europe.
Strength Is needed to main.
ty of the court
house is going to
depend on the
c I r cumstanccs.
Those that wi
Those that win -rm T-w
their law suits ' -fcAJf
in the building L jf I
think it's a I TT I
mighty pretty I jOkK I T'
structure and kaaaaV a U 11
archy that among the American
cardinals, wise old Cardinal
Stritch of Chicago is more in
favor at the Vatican.
These factors may be one
reason for Cardinal Spellman's
flight to Rome.
NOTE When the newly
named American cardinals-designate
flew to Rome to receive
their red hats, Spellman was the
only one kissed by the pope;
which caused Cardinal Glennon
of St. Louis to remark: "I hear
Spellman wants to be papal sec
retary. He'll have us all in hot
water."
"USUAL" SENATOR HOEY
When the mysterious John
Maragon tried to smuggle
French perfume into the U.S.
labeled as champagne for the
White House and later got the
case squelched by the justice
department, amiable Clyde Ho
ey, the swallow-tailed senator
from North Carolina, described
it all as "just the usual settle
ment." Since then, this column has
inquired of the customs bureau
regarding other smuggling cas
es to see exactly what the "usual
settlement" is. The customs bu
reau has been extremely loath
to talk. One week of queries has
A farmer poked his head in
the door of a shiny, blue auto
trailer in a South Carolina town
and inquired: "Sellin' refriger
ators or fixin' to put on a show?"
"Neither," grinned a wiry
young man with a crew haircut
standing inside. "But how about
a Coca-Cola or some orange
pop?" as he reached into the
trailer's refrigerator.
"Now, have you any prob
lems you'd like me to tackle in
Washington?" he added. "My
name is Hugo Sims. I'm your
congressman."
This happens every week-end
in the South Carolina district of
freshman Representative Hugo
Sims. The young liberal doesn't
wait for constituents to come to
see him when congress isn't
meeting. He's the only member
of congress with an office on
wheels.
It is well for us to recognize tain the balance and prevent any!
that the situation revolving reckless adventures In the Bal
about Yugoslavia is serious. kans.
This Is Quite an Eye-tem
Santa Monica, Calif. P) Scene: A courtroom.
On the stand: Officer A. H. Hannum, who arrested Richard
F. Mossman, 14, on a drunken-driving charge. The question
er: Defense Attorney William Brown.
"You say you flashed a light Into his eyes?"
"And that yon examined them from a distance f six
Inches?"
The officer agreed.
"And you found that his eyes were bloodshot?"
"Both of them,' said the officer.
"That's all,' said the attorney.
Next witness was the defendant who plucked hli left lye
from the socket. It was glass.
Final scene 10 minutes later; the superior court Jury re
turns Its verdict
"Not guilty," said the foreman.
li'oiotai ST- POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Fireman Gets Fossils Named
For Him for Spare-time Work
By HAL BOYLE
Lancaster, Pa. John W. Price is the only fireman in Ameri
ca who has had a crab, a snail, and a flatworm named in his honor.
T found them, they were new to science, so they Just named
in
tween now and Christmas. His
"mobile office" is complete with
files, a typewriter, sleeping ac
commodations, the refrigerator
and an efficient secretary, Bob
Kirksey, who spells his boss
driving while tapping sentiment
in South Carolina.
"Most folks don't like to sit
down and write a letter to their
those that lose
are going to fig
ure It's ugly."
bu-
scientinus young fellows throuRh
every type of weather and de
sert a lot of playtime to do it
are pretty worthy of whatever
little praise ever drops their
way. They may miss the porch
once in awhile, but the wonder
is how often the paper is there
ind on time, rather than the verv
rare occasions when It Isn't. If
the subscriber was as careful
about being on hand once a
month to pay his bill as the
newspaper carrier is to see the
paper is there every night, may
be the governor would set aside
a day for him, as well.
How to Best a Besr
Tampa. Fla. Nabbed In
the seat of his britches by a city
park bear. 20-months old John
ny Lango was nursing an ailing
sitter today. He might have been
bitter seriously Instead of Just
painfully if his mother had not
jabbed her fingernails into the
bear's nostrils until the animal
let go. Susie, a 300-pound Cana
dian black bear, was caged, but
she could poke he.' snout through
a small opening between the
end of a gate and the post of
the next section of fencing.
Johnny backed up to the open-
It's a fitting Idea to dedicate i ng. Susie clamped down and
a day as a tribute to the news- Johnny began to scream. Mrs.
paper carrier boy and It's one Joseph Lango, only a few feet
of the few proclamations eman- away, rushed up and clawed at
acing fro mthe executive offices Susie's nose until the bear loos
that can be wholeheartedly ap- ened its hold. Johnny got his
plauded. Folk who are served wound three Inches long and
virtually every day in the year an inch and a half wide stitch
by these hard working and con- ed up and went on home.
no
information "what- congressman when they're grip- them after me," he said.
disclosed
soever.
However, the New York Times
ed about things in Washington,
says Sims. "They want to talk
to him personally. So, I ve decid-
contains the record of the case ed t0 bring Washington to my
value of the goods involved was
constituents.'
icoprrifht ltiti
Try This on Your Piano
(Guv S. Williams of the
Omaha World Herald)
Oh give me a home.
Near the Capitol Dome,
Where the screwballs and
reaucrats play;
Where seldom is heard.
An economical word.
And the spendthrifts are busy
all day.
Chorus
Home, home near the Dome,
Where the planners and crack
pots are gay;
Where they cook up the schemes,
That haunt a taxpayer's
dream.
And the sky is the limit all day.
OPEN FORUM
What About Court House Plans?
(Editor's Note Letters to the Editor, limited to SO words,
are solicited expressing an opinion on the proposed plans for
the exterior of the Marlon county court house.)
To the Editor: As a tax-payer of Marion county, I thank you
for the privilege of answering the question: "If the court house
ties Into the capitol group?" In no manner, shape or form!
The picture looks like a good warehouse. There isn't one win
dow in the picture that ties into the state group.
MRS. P. W. BYRD
Salem
For 72 hours
Lancaster fire
department.
But that is
only his living
His real life
Is in the world
of nature. In
his spare time
he has become
a self- taught
authority on in
vertebrate pale
ontology the
study of fossil
creatures without backbones.
a week. Price operates a switchboard at the
Hal Barll
It took a lot of backbone on
Price's part, however, to aspira
to be an expert in such a field.
"It isn't exactly overcrowd
ed," he smiled, "but It does re-
To the Editor: I'm all for the new court house. I've traveled Xnd'l "dnVv ihl?ivn
through practically every state west of the Mississippi and thus went beyond grammIII. Khool ..
sc-vm iiimijf m ui-autuui aid it: lapuui lim cuuri UUUK VI WIV
modern design.
I believe Salem could improve Itself 00 per cent by getting
rid of the frills and fancies of the gay nineties and come up-to-date
with a modern-designed court house . . .
MRS. L. J. STEWART
Salem
Often people discover their
life's goal in odd ways. Price
was stirred to an Interest in the
earth's past by seeing a movie,
The Lost World." back in 1929.
The animals of this prehistoric
period fascinated him.
He wanted to learn more
about them. He struck up a
friendship with a professor who
also served as curator of the
Franklin and Marshall college
To the Editor: In the . . . issue of September SO you asked
the question: Do the proposed architectural plans of our new
county court house fit in with the new capitol group?
Definitely they do not. In no respect does it command the re
spect and display the dignity that the capitol group does.
A public building designed to house the courts and public museum. Price volunteered to
offices of our county should be such that would Identify its act as the professor s unpaid as
purpose and draw the admiration and respect ot all people. , . sistant at the museum.
FRANK E WAY "There is a lot of letter writ-
MRS. FRANK E. WAY ng to do in science." he recall-
Route , Box 391, Salem. ed, "and I did it. Most of those
we corresponded with were men
of letters. They had things lik"l
Ph.D. or D.Sc. after their names.
"So I decided I'd have to be a
man of letters, too. I started
signing my letters, John W.
Price, L.F.D., assistant curator."
Nobody asked htm about this
for years. Then at a matting of
scientists, one inquired curious
ly: "Say, Price, what degree does
'L.F.D.' stand for. I don't believe
I'm familiar with It."
"Stands for Lanoasttr Fir
Department," grinned Price". By
then he ha made his mark in
paleontology through origin
al discoveries and the publica
tion of scientific papers and
dldln't mind letting out the se
cret. a a
Today, however, he can put
"D.Sc." after his name, too.
Franklin and Marshall college
has granted him an honorary
degree doctor of science.
"It was the produest moment
of my life." he said. "I won't
say I didn't dream of It. But I
didn't dare hope It would come
so soon."
Price still has one goal to get
away from the fire department
switchboard.
"I'd rather ride to the fire,",
he said.
Also, Price doesn't want any
body to think Just because he
studies fossils that he's turn
ing Into one.