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4 Salem. Oregon, Wednesday, October 12, 1949
Congressional Lawyers
The question has been raised, and argued recently, be
fore the circuit court of appeal In Philadelphia, as to the
propriety, if not the legality, of member of congress rep
resenting clients before such high federal courts, for pay.
It, perhaps, is little known, but such was the prevailing
practice for many years after the foundation of our govern
ment and the establishment of our federal courts.
Beverage, in his "Life of John Marshall," gives a num
ber of Interesting accounts of U.S. senators and repre
sentatives in congress gaining professional renown
through appearing before the U.S. supreme court filing
briefs and presenting arguments prepared by obscure law
yer or lawyers in outlying states.
Webster's fame as a lawyer rests largely upon the brief
and argument presented in the Dartmouth college case.
Both, however, were prepared and forwarded to him
with a $500 fee by a firm of obscure New Hampshire
lawyers.
Upon the opinion written by Chief Justice Marshall in
that case, upholding the legality of the college charter,
rests our whole complicated system of vested rights.
The case attracted little or no attention at the time, for
not more than half a dozen lawyers heard it argued or
sensed Its far-reaching effect.
When, in time, the truth became known, and the vested
Interests enlightened, Webster was much applauded and
not slow in accepting both applause and credit forgetting
the obscure New Hampshire lawyers.
Great distances from Washington and the U.S. supreme
court, abominable roads and a lack of conveniences for
travel to say nothing of loss of time and money forced
lawyers in outlying districts, after preparing their appeals,
to employ some U.S. senator or representative in congress
from their home state if a lawyer and competent to file
their briefs and present their prepared arguments to the
U.S. supreme court.
It was, at that time at least, a happy arrangement. It
not only gave underpaid congressional lawyers a chance to
earn a few badly needed dollars, but saved attorneys prac
ticing in outlying states the inconvenience and expense of
many days, even weeks, of travel over frightful roads.
The old necessity for outside practice by legislators has
passed with changing times and there is now no necessity
for it and many objections can be raised. Congressmen
are well paid for devoting themselves to national welfare
and It would be a demoralizing betrayal of public office to
engage in lucrative private practice of law for special in
terests. What Will the Parents Say?
Salem faces the disturbing prospect of falling way short
of the goal of $105,000 set for this year's Community
Chest drive. Chest workers admittedly are having a hard
time meeting the quotas. In fact, collections at this point
In the drive arf 20 percent below those of last year at this
time.
The question has been asked: Is Salem going to meet
Its quota this year? Glum faces have a tendency to answer
that question too readily with a negative reply. The ques
tion, instead, should be put this way: Are the children of
Salem to be given proper recreational facilities through the
Chest agencies like the YMCA, the scout groups, YWCA,
and the Salvation Army?
At stake are more than the eight agencies served by the
local Community Chest. At stake is th welfare of the
children of the city.
Record new enrollments at Salem schools indicate how
more and more children are here now in the city, needing
proper attention and care. The bumper crop of offspring
of the veterans is growing up. And, despite this swelling
group of children, Chest agencies interested in those chil
dren have had to cut budgets to the bone. And if even
those bare miiiimum budgets are not met by Chest contri
butions, then the program for children, as conducted by
Chest agencies, will be inadequate.
Then who will suffer? The children of Salem.
Too often the reason some give for not contributing or
for not giving more this year is that there have been too
many drives It is true there have been many drives in
Salem this vear Rut the inescapable fact is still there,
staring at the mothers and fathers: Interested agencies
won't be able to help their children properly if the quota
for the year is not met.
Can the adults of Salem look at the children of the city
and tell them here isn't enough money to take care of their
recreational needs?
; Behind the Iron Curtain
I Russia, which has been continuously and remorsely
purging satellite nations in its reign of terror from the
s Baltic to the Ralkans. thus filling up its Arctic slave labor
J camps, is centering its reign of terror on Czechoslovakia.
An Associated Press dispatch from Prague shows the fol
! lowing situation:
, Large section of Czechoslovakia's 13.000, 000 people live in
r fear today wnlle the communist government carries out a purge
' that has hit army officers, Catholic officials, businessmen and
, communist parly functionaries. Citizens display a dread hor
j dering on tearful hysteria that almost anybody can be hit in
I the great roundup, by the charge of treason or of "Titoism" or
merely by the denunciation of some snooper.
i The police roundup is centering In Trague. but it is hitting
elsewhere in Ruhema and Moravia. Slovakia, however, it the
scene ot more routine arreita chiefly of Roman Catholic priests
? and others accused of being "dissident elements." Some esti
j mates place the number of recent arrests as high as 30.000,
; but no offic.ai figures are given by the communist regime.
- Even wearers of communist party badges do not feel safe.
a A systematic campaign is being waged to exterminate
: the Christian religion, especially Catholics who are most
numerous, and make all religions state controlled organ-
Izations, as in Russia, where there is always a purge going
on. The dreaded relapse to the dark ages has become an
actuality wherever the bloody typranny of the iron cur-
tain falls on helpless people in the Red Utopia where thcrt
is no god but Stalin. -
BY BECK
Playing It Safe
I'W Wf '' sfi rW MISBEHAVE f ( EM WHENSHES
'' I Pi VfiV n WHEN THB C0WIKJS 6ACK.A
,P1 :M UbACMER IS ? 60 HE'S NO
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Kilday Calls on the Navy to
Offer Constructive Criticism
By DREW PEARSON
Washington The public now knows what happened when Ad
miral Arthur Radford testified at an open session of the house
srmed services committee.
But they don't know what happened at th closed door session
which preceded his testimony.
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
. t-l ill A
SIPS FOR SUPPER
To Remain Hidden
By DON UPJOHN
ETAOIN ETA ET
A recent county court order to destroy the ballots from the last
general election in the county is revealing County Clerk Harlan
Judd as the No. 1 self-control guy of the week with a backbone
as stiff as a ramrod. For included among the ballots to be de
stroyed are those from Salem No. 1 precinct which after last fall
election decided
the contest be
tween John
Steelh a m m e r
and Farmer
Jones for a post
in the state leg-L
Iclatnrp and rie-L
cided it by one
vote. The ballot
box was never
opened, nor the
votes ever re
counted. The
matter went Into an election con
test and went out on a
US
thought is was merely a little
additional flourish and not an
extra vote at all. But maybe
Harlan's right. Supposing they
were counted and it was found
to be but a little flourish? Why
it might upset everything the
legislature did in the whole ses
sion and would that be good
or wouldn't it?
After Adml'al
Radford read
his confidential
sta t e m e n t
later repeated
In the open ses
sion of gripes
against the air
force and De
fense Secretary
Louis Johnson
Congress m a
Paul Kilday
Texas remarked
to him:
"Admiral, I am disappointed
that you did not come here with
an affirmative statement of what
the naVy can do. Instead of a
criticism of what the air force
can do."
"I'm Just the leadoff man,"
replied Radford. "Later on
we'll have some witnesses on
the affirmative side."
"That's my point," shot back
Kilday. "The navy has chosen
to lead off by criticizing the
other fellow, Instead of telling
us what the navy can do and
how much you need in surface
ships, submarines and air pow
er. "It's obvious to me that you
want to promote all this discord,
which must be of no little com
fort to a potential enemy. I'm
for ending it right here and now,
without letting this committee
be used to carry on such bick
ering at an open hearing.
private plana owned by Phil
lips Petroleum company. This
plane was put at the disposal
of the Democratic National com
mittee by Phillips' chief lobby
ist, R. C. Joplin, and its free
passengers included Secretary of
Labor Maurice Tobin, TJ. S.
Treasurer Georgia Neese Clark
and Assistant Secretary of Com
merce Tom Davis.
The plane also stopped in St.
Louis to pick up Vice presi
dent BarKley who had been
courtin'.
After the party, Phillips Pe
troleum flew Berkley and Tobin
back to Washington, then the
plane returned to its home base
in Oklahoma.
NOTE The oil companies
have been lobbying for control
of tide-lands oil and against Le
land Olds' confirmation to the
federal power commission. But
if Mr. Joplin was in a mood to
lobby, he didn't get a chance
with Vice president Barkley.
For the VP slept both ways.
When vw take
OUT . LIFE
adc C TO 1 YOULL
LIVE PAST THE F1BST
YEAR
Ihal-n
IO-IZ
riJ MM
AT ODDS WITH BABIES -
AffAINT TWINS. 83 TO 1. AGAINST
BCY AND SIPL TWINS, 249 TO 1-BUT;
AGAINST TRIPLETS, 10,000 TO 1 .
(Mfi U. JACKSON, PfDONOO, CAIIF., ASUS).
CAN YOU PICK YOUR FAVORITE
CIGARETTE WHEN THE LABEL IS
HIDDEN '-TESTS SHOW.oTOl,
SMOKERS CANT SPOT A BRAND .
BY" TASTE. ..SlPLS MADE A3
MANY MISTAKES WITH PERFUMES.'
MacKbNZIE'S COLUMN
Nehru's Visit to America
Rated as a Historic Event
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
114) Foreign Afltlrs Attaint)
A dozen years from now we are likely to be reminding ourselves
that Tuesday's arrival of Pandit Jawabarlal Nehru on his first
trip to this country was a far-reaching event.
The prime minister of India is one of the outstanding leaders
of our time.
DM CpJmb
Page Mrs. Ren Tade
Bristol. England (Pi Mrs.
Jean Walker heard a rustle in
legal her fireplace. Suspecting a lit-'
point. Judge George Duncan had tie mouse, she went over to hae
ordered the ballot box officially a look. Flopping on the cold
sealed with the court seal and it grate was a big, plump goldfish.
Is still so sealed. Now your col- Mrs. Walker popped it into the
umnlst and some others thought bathtub, washed off the soot,
It would be Interesting before and soon had it swimming brisk
the ballots in that box are de- ly. Her guess: "A bird must hgve
stroyed, to have an unofficial raided someone's fish pond and
count of same made as it applied dropped it down the chimney."
to the vote between Mssrs. Steel-
hammer and Jones and offered Even Exchange
the suggestion to the county County Engineer Hedda Swart
clerk. The county clerk's back- and Roadmaster Frank Woelke
bone stiffened and he murmer- yesterday were trying to look
ed a few remarks about "letting through the grip at the top of a
sleeping dogs lie," "let the dead manhole at Salem Heights school
past bury its dead," and "why in an attempt to figure out a
bring that up?" And so the bal- water problem. While they were
lots from that precinct will in looking a cigarette lighter drop
due course go up the courthouse ped from Woelke's shirt pocket
chimney in smoke and be waft- down through the grid into
ed to the Valhalla of all defunct about seven feet of drain. The
election ballots. county engineer, being a geni-
The question of the election us, formed a sort of fish hook
was decided by the canvassing at the end of a long wire and
board on the basis of a slight fished out the cigarette lighter,
mark on the tally sheet which But while he was leaning over
the board decided represented an In the process two pencils drop
extra vote. Some others, in- ped out of his pocket down the
eluding Farmer Jones, of course, drain. They're still there.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
What Makes You Think
You Want to Buy a House?
By SAUL PETT
New York, Oct. 12 Wi If you're having difficulty buying a
house, pull up a chair and listen. I'm an authority on the sub
ject. I have been buying a house every Sunday for three years.
I have driven 16.6R2 miles (in just the suhurgs. of course) and I
have
SENATOR MILLER'S VOTE
The sudden death of Senator
Bert Miller of Idaho may hold
up displaced persons legislation
Secretary of the Navy Mat- until next 'ear-
thews didn't open his mouth un- The bill removing religious
til after the committee overrode discrimination from the Dis-
is.iio.ay s protests ana votea to Diaced Persons Act
was sup
posed to come up for senate
debate this week, but now the
judiciary committee will be ex-
The responsibility is now Pted to attend Senator Miller's
iuiicibi in cuisc.
6 to give the admirals an open
hearing. Then he remarked to
Chairman Carl Vinson of Geor
gia, who sided with the admi
rals: '
yours
"Mr. Secretary," interposed
Since this is the committee
Kilday, "you might as well can- handling the displaced persons
rpl nut vonr court-martial of uul 11
As head of T';
this great new
nation, with its
population o f
more than 300,
000.000, Nehru
already is dem
onst rating a
leadersh i p
which is mak
ing itself felt
throughout A
sia: His influ
ence on world
unity will be vast.
Therefore, Nehru's
Washington, where he
He was educated in England.
He attended Harrow, one of the
country's famous "public"
schools (really private) and at
the University of Cambridge.
Later he studied law in Lon
don and returned to his native
land as a polished intellectual,
who had the marks of genius.
At the outset he showed little
interest in the Independence
movement, but soon he joined
and thereafter devoted his whole
life to the ideal.
He became one of the most
devoted disciples of Mohandas
visit to K- Gandhi and followed the
Is being saintly little Mahatma faithful-
JL ' J
DtWIU Mackeiuil
Captain Crommelin. He is not from reaching the floor at all.
promoting discord any longer.
This committee has taken over
for him after the vote today."
may prevent the bill entertained by our President, In the drive for Indian nde-
Decomes a mauer oi inuiiiciii. - .... " J
For upon the impression which sassination on January 30, 1948.
this brilliant and highly sensi- So it was natural that Gandhi
tive guest forms may well de- should have designated Nehru
pend future relations between as his "political heir" and that
the United States and an India the disciple should become the
,h!.h Knins in nia., first prime minister of the Do-
Just back from Germany, Sen- ZTZZlXceTZV.l -t part m the development of minion of ldi, when Britain
or Lester Hunt of Wyoming hm iirfh,.rf, c0,. Mi, the Orient. grantea inaepenaence.
Nehru, who will be 80 on
the 14th of next month, not only
GERMANY IS STILL NAZI
However, there Is one thing
the senate ought to know. The
evening before Senator Miller
died, as one of his last wishes,
he told Senator Magnuson of
Washington that he wanted
aior tester nuni ot Wyoming hnl iTnrfM.rti R.n.. iun
warns that it will take an army ler would have preferred to have
U1 '' "' v his colleagues stay in Washing-
Nazism in Germany.
Nehru is an internationalist
and a socialist and Is a bitter
7 j I ms colleagues stay in washing- opponent of dictatorshiD
to defeat on and vot -m thousand nf was born into a family of great PPnenl l oictaiorsnip.
ton ana vote to aid tnousands ot ... . , , . . K-,.1r,1 He is, however, what might
refnopos vjhn ore .till aliv wealth but he is a Kashmiri . . ' , L:JJ, .r '
"There is no such thing as
de-Nazifying a Nazi," the Wy
oming Democrat insists.
The only solution, Hunt be
lieves, is to place an American
superintendent or principal over
every German school and an
American president over every
German university. "It would
cost us less," he promises, "than
the first month of World War
III."
spent
$322 43 on gas'
and oil. but I '
have been able
to do all this
with the same
car. the same
wife, and the
help of only
three psychia
trists. And so I say
to you, friend
don't be afraid.
You can have your home
7
f fi
ftaal Feu
and
can heat the place for $0 a
month, does he mean in the
' winter or summer?
Are metal cross pieces between
floor Joists better than wooden
bridging?
How good is the commuting
Don't take anybody's word for
it. Take a week off, ride the
railroad yourself with an accu
rate watch. Do you sit or stand?
Can the guy across the aisle
play canasta?
Are the rooms big enough for
sanity, too. House - hunting is the furniture and the children?
not as confusing as you might Which will have to go first?
think.
Is there a full basement and,
Just don't buy on impulse. If there isn't, will radiant hrat
Don't buy on faiih. Be practical ing prevent dampness and where
Make sure you answer all the will you store all the Ihincs
vital questions before buying: you'll never use again? Also is
Will the style of architecture it true people get flat feet from
be outdated In five or 80 years? walking on concrete floors?
Is It colonial. Cape Cod, Call- Do you really like a picture
fornia Dungalow, modern. Eng- window and what do you get
a picture of and what will the
neighbors get a picture of, and
those small little sections which
open, will they be enough to
carry a orcezc?
How good is the Insulation?
ranch house. All some builders Is It rock wool, glass wool, cot
need Is a small, high window in ton blankets, wood fiber blan
the bedroom and they think kets. metal foil, mica hubbies,
they've got a home on the and. by the way, what are mica
ranue. bubbles?
Who owns the lot next door Is the sewage already In or
and are they planning a glue will a picturesque old man come
factory? to tear up your front lawn every
Is the agent over-selling you two years or so?
or under selling you, and does Do ycu want a house like 100
he have a thin, hard mouth or other houses In a development
a police record? or do you want to pay more to
What exactly does he mean be distinctive?
by saying, "you can own this And what makes you think
home if you earn $4,000 a year." you want a house?
Dors he think you'll be able to I don't. I Just like to have
eat too? When he says you some place to go Sundays.
than mourn over him in Idaho. Brahmin the highest aristocra
(Copjriiht i4) cy of all India.
NO HYSTERIA OVER RUSS A-BOMB
War Is Not Inevitable,
General Bradley Declares
General Omar Bradley declared Wednesday that war Is not
inevitable.
"War is not impossible, but I believe it is unlikely," the chair
man of the Joint chiefs of staff declared in an article in the
FREE AIR RIDE current Saturday Evening Post.
The Democrats were tipped "I believe it can be made in- this for the past five years," ht
off that this columnist was creasingly unlikely by our own points out.
checking on what air force behavior if only the American "It need not seriously affect
plane might fly to Kansas Citv neonle ran adhere to a wise and the stable equilibrium of force
steadfast course of conduct or our strategy lor peace. or
through the years " an industrially backward coun-
that Russia had exploded an
atom bomb is no occasion for
hysteria. Gen. Bradley declares.
"Our plans have contemplated
be described as a middle-of-the-road
socialist. He believes in
what he calls a "mixed econo
my" in which the state assumes
management of key Industries
but still allows plenty of chance
for private enterprise to operate.
for Bill Boyle's big home-corn
ing jamboree. Possibly this had
something to do with the fact
that not a single air force plane
made the trip.
However, a few high officials
still got a free ride in a plush.
atomic bomb is not so difficult
as is the problem of turning it
out in quantity and delivering
it.
OPEN FORUM
Views on County Court House
To the Editor: For some time I have been reading with disgust
"Letters to the Editor" concerning the exterior of the proposed
Marion county court house.
Mt. Putnam's Monday editorial seems to sum up pretty well the
views of a relatively small portion of an unenlightened public
which won't tolerate anything ; " r " T
new they have to duplicate them in
' order to have any form of unity
Aside from the ... name call- or , slructure which is pleas
ing . the "public seems to --e , , ,ook
bothered bv the windows and , ... . .
th. tht in iw it i. m For fear of being different and
a rnnv of th'p Bnvernmpnt Port havin building designed With
Office or the various state build
incs. It is unfortunate that the
floor plans were not also pub
lished, which would, in all prob-
"As long as America retains
(as it can) a tremendous advan
tage in A-bomb quantity, qual
ity and deliverability, the deter
rent effect of the bomb against
an aggressor will continue. Sus
tained research and development
can keep us far in the lead with
methods for intercepting enemy
bomb-carriers.
"No one can predict what the
weapons of the future may be;
in the long run our promise of
security lies on the combined,
unparalleled inventiveness and
industrial skill of western Eu
rope and America."
General Bradley feels that our
minimum risk, and our maxi
mum security, lies in creating
and maintaining forces which art
"reasonably adequate for de-
Counting
Calories?
lish tudor, early American,
French provincial. Dutch co
lonial, Georgia, Spanish, Nor
mandy or ranch?
Be careful. Practically every
thing these days Is called a
ability, bear out the fact that
a building, to be well designed,
is planned from the inside out,
the exterior being only the out
come of an Interior which is
planned with attention to "fit
ness for purpose" and "function."
imagination, it seems the pub
lic wants another uninspired
and uninteresting block such as
those which make up the capi
tol group The proposed plan
has beauty and honesty in its fense. obviously inadequate for
pure simplicity, an interesting conquest."
variety in it's break up of space.
is monumental in feeling, and "I consider the health and
highly suitable for the purpose strength of western Europe to be
for which It was designed. It vital in the strategy for peace,"
is the type of structure Marion Gen. Bradley declares.
County should be pioud to own. "A weak Europe is a tempt-
The Capital Journal readers ing invitation to aggression. A
SUN VALLEY BREAD the ans
wer to "Reducing Starvation" you
can eat and enjoy SUN VALLEY
BREAD low in calories yet high
in energy producing proteins.
SUN VALLEY ADDS VARIETY
to "bread hungry diets."
Oh
ana
The vertiele fins at the ton who find criticism so easy might strong Europe, supported
tirst tinn out just wnat areni- and firmly by the might of
to control sunlight and large
expanse of window are undoubt
edly there for a purpose.
Why should walls be broken
up with small, spotted holes
when, by doing away with large
portions of them, more light a
feeling ot more spare, and sim
ple beauty can be had?
I should like to ask, too. why
tecture is, what it should do,
and in what direction it Is going
today led by such men as Mr
Bellusrhi.
Those who feel that the soon
er the better the present Vic
torian Monstrosity Is replaced
by the proposed court house
will. I hope, make their views
known before a small group of
What a Hunter, This Guy!
Taroma. Wash. ft) A. J. McCarthy, fire marshal at near
by McChnrd Air Rase here, denies he's going cougar hunting
with a sling shot.
McCarthy stent squirrel hunting one Sunday with a .11
rifle. A hear ran In front ot him and up a tree.
McCarthy fired one shot and the SfC pound bear fell to the
ground dead, with a hullet In it heart
should the outward appearance moss-backed conservatives bring
conform with the adjoining cap- pressure to bear on the court
itol group? Because the state house advisory board for a re
builds some buildings of ques- vision of plan.
tionable beauty a few blocks DICK. STEWART
away, should the county feel 8S3 N Cottage St., Salem
To the Editor: We have a beautiful capitol, government and
other state buildings, of Grecian design.
It would be most out ot place, within the radius of our state
and government buildings (to put) a structure of such modern
design (as the proposed county court house).
Let's keep the Grecian dignity.
LYDIA CASE
ialem
ica, has a defensive power
no aggressor in his right
would dare attack. The
who might contemplate
tack. I believe, are realistic in
matters of force."
The Marshall Plan, Atlantic
Pact and Military Assistance
Program are all vital to our de
fense plans, the general says, but
of these MAP is the most im
portant. "MAP is designed to help Eu
rope speed up the building of
her armed forces to the point
where they can stop any rush
from the east, and hold it long
enough for the enormous mili
tary and industrial potential of
the western world to get into ac
tion. "Fared with such a defensive
barrier.- any possible aggressor
must realize that if he starts a
war, he cannot win."
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