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BY BECK
Life's Big Moment
4
Salem, OreRon. Thursday, October 13, 1949
Too Pink for Democrats
President Truman suffered a major political defeat
when the senate rejected his nomination of Leland Olds to
a third term on the Federal Power Commission by a vote
of 50 to 13. This despite the fact that the executive and
national democratic chairman, William H. Bogle, Jr., had
sent a precedent by waging a vigorous "party discipline"
campaign to pressure senators into voting for Olds.
It is something new for a president to try openly to
coerce senators into ratifying a nomination. The pres
sure campaign boomeranged. Some 21 democrats joined
82 republicans in voting against Olds. Voting for him
were 13 democrats and 2 republicans, Senators William
Langer (N.D.), and Wayne Morse (Ore.).
During the hectic senate debate that preceded the vote.
Olds' critics denounced him as a left-winger with "foreign
ideologies." His supporters, on the other hand, hailed him
as a fearless anti-communist public servant who had
aroused the enmity of influential power interests.
Senator Edwin C. Johnson of Colorado called Otis "a
warped, tyrannical, mischievous, egotistical chameleon
whose predominant color is pink."
His defenders pictured him as a devoted public servant
trying to protect consumers by effective utility regulation.
The special senate committee voted unanimously atrainst
Olds, and the full commerce committee voted 10 to 2
against him. This caused the president to declare the
appointment the "party line and a test of loyalty to the
party." At last week's press conference he defended his
action and attributed the opposition to Olds to "powerful
corporations subject to regulation by the commission,
which had not been pleased by Mr. Olds. But the commit
tee senators stated that representatives of the corpora
tions under regulation neither asked to be heard nor were
heard, although there was a large lobby in Olds' behalf.
The senators were shocked by the economic views ex
pressed by Olds when editor of the Federated Labor Press
in the latter '20's, which reflected the ideology of the com
munist party line. Space forbids the reprinting of the
many Olds statements, but the following are samples of
them all:
"Lenin knew what would take the place of political partyism
when he made his bid for power in Russia with the .slogan all
power to the Soviets. . . . That change is coming in America.
Upon labor's advance preparation will depend its share in the
new apportionment of authority." Leland Olds, Federated
Press, Novembei II, 1B25.
"To millions of workers slaving throughout the world to
provide the tribute enacted by the American dollar empire Ihe
Fourth of July will loom as anything but the birthday of lib
erty. They will view it as the day set apart by the world's
greatest exploiters to glorify their rise to power." Leland Olds,
Federated Press, Daily Worker, July 5, 1928.
"Capitalism In the United States is rapidly passing into the
stage which has marked the decay of many earlier social or
ders, the stage in which dominant owning class ceases to per
form a function in the business of society. . . . The owners exist
only, privileged class of parasites whose idleness and dissi
pation become an increasing stench in the nostrils of the
people." Leland Olds. Federated Press, January 24, 1929, P. 1.
The FPC, like most of federal commissions, is an ad
ministrative and judicial body, has frequently usurped leg
islative functions by its decrees. Its members should be
just, impartial, unprejudiced and honest, not devious
players of politics intent only on making the country
over according to foreign ideologies of statism.
Olds' rejection marks the third time this session the sen
ate has rejected a Truman appointee for a key job. The
president previously had failed to get approval of Mon C.
Wallgren to head the National Security Resources board,
and that of Carl A. Ilgenfritz to head the Munitions board.
Salem Gets 'Safe' Rating
From Salem, the atom-bomb race between the United
States and Russia can seem so remote. Perhaps it is the
distance of Oregon's capital from Washington, D.C., and
from Russia that tends to give a false feeling of remote
ness. But in a list of 92 atom-bomb targets for Russia in the
United States is Portland. The city to the north is listed
as the target in Oregon by U.S. News and World Report if
the Soviet sends one-way suicide missions of R-29s U.S.
ail-planners estimate that the Russians can stretch the
range of (heir B-2!)s to 4500 or even 5000 miles, the maga
zine reports.
In looking at any atom-bomb threat, the U.S. News goes
fin to note that "tremors from the bomb ... are to be real,
measurable, maybe of cumulative effect. They will help
to determine how the government spends its money, where
basic industries locate new plants, how cities expand,
where people build their homes."
Cities of over 100,000 population are classed as vulner
able to attack in event war should come. In other words,
people in the cities, for the first time In this nation's his
tory, are confronted with a definite element of danger in
another war.
A strange new consideration even enters the gradual
Idea of decentralization which was originally prompted
by crowded cities. "Now, decentralization is described
by officials as 'life and property insurance in the atomic
age.' "
In this atomic world it is not inconceivable that some
atomic planning board might be brought into being to sug
gest to industries where the most advantageous locations
for the future might be in the nation.
In the atomic age, Salem presently rates a "safe" label.
It is an odd lalel but these are odd times.
Canine Version of Carrie Nation?
Chiraso V dog walked Into a North Chicago tavern,
lilt Stanley Glmhora. who was drinking a beer, and then
walked out.
A short time later, the same dog walked Into another tay
ern, bit Loots Koalol similarly engaged and walked nut. In
a third tavern, the dog repeated the Job on Ma Brewer.
Olmhnra. Kntiol and Brewer said they didn't know why.
The said the dog was complete stranger.
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TO BE COMINfl HOME TO AM C-irrr' NERVOUS MOW, I
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
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Senate Leader Lucas Blasts
Vice President Barkley
By DREW PEARSON
Washington It has been kept out of the papers, but sparks
have been flying between two of President Truman's most potent
congressional readers Vice President Barkley and Majority
Leader Scott Lucas of Illinois.
Things came to a head when the vice president, called upon to
settle a tie, vot-
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
s A.'. u.a
if '
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Down at Last
By DON UPJOHN
It seems our endurable, iron-man ex-governor Os West who
has lived unperturbed through all kinds of excitement, political
battles, legislative frays, municipal, state and county battles,
always in a scrap with somebody or something, but never with a
windmill, has been caught up with at last. In a note to our fa-
ed for rigid 80
percent support
of parity farm
prices which the
administrat ion
opposed.
Senator L u -cas,
faced with
defe a t , lashed
out at Barkley
pr i v a t e 1 y
lan g u a g e un
printable in a '
family newspaper.
"What does Barkley know
about farming!" stormed the
democratic senate leader. "He
has a few tobacco farms down
in Kentucky, but he knows no-
cized from the navy. For i time
his fellow admirals would not
speak to him. And when he re
tired as chief of naval opera
tions, almost no one was on hand
to see him depart.
As today, the admirals ar
ranged a series of "leaks," and
threatened the resignation of
Admiral Jones. As today also,
various congressmen took up the
cudgels and debated the pros
and cons of the 8-inch-gun and
fl-inch-gun cruiser much to the
delight of the Japanese and Bri
tish navies.
Upshot of It all was that when
thing about the agricultural five of the big 8-inch-gun cruis-
problems of the great west." ers came ofr the ways, they had
Lucas, whose nerves are fraz- cracked stern-posts one of
zled after the long and thankless the most important parts of the
job of riding herd on rebellious ship, for on it hangs the rudder.
senators, further accused Bark- Not only did the stern-posts
ley of torpedoing the farm pro- have to be replaced at a cost of
gram and embarrassing him per- $150,000 paid by the taxpayer
lilt PRESENT
A O0-MINUTE
INTERMISSION
Tocmric ijoon
POPCOCN CANPY
IT 7 TO 5 YOUR HUSBAND1
COOK! HK OWN BREAKFAST.
BUT ODDS ARE
FAR HI3MER
25
CACU THEATRE TICKET HOLDER
buys an average ii worth
of popcorn AND CANDY-BUr
AN AVERAS.E. ADMISSION IS
OVER VO
dm
5C4T0l)
3aa,TH
THAT HE
HELP WITH,
TUB DKWEf.'
0JdDS AT DICE TABLES IN NEVADA
ARE ALMOST 6 TIME4 BCTTER
THAN IN MONTI CARLO. ..BUT
ROULETTE PAYS 2T0l
BETTE1? IN MONTE CARLO.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
vorite paper heB
writes: "lnerej
lids UCCIl v J
damn much
trouble and ex
citement f o r a
weak heart
UrtU
Note
sonally
"Who ever heard of anyone
explaining hia vote?" scorched
Lucas, referring to the fact that
that little Miss Marker he vice president in breaking
me lie, naa expiainea inai ue
but all the new cruisers roll
ed so badly it interfered with
gunfire.
A World of Free Matches
But Lighter Business Sparks
is contemplating getting into the ha(, campajgned lor parity priee
divorce courts. Remember her,
she used to also be known ai
Shirley Temple. That Holly
wood seems to have a wierd ef
fect on our idols.
Dm UsJoba
support. "It's unheard of in the
history of the senate."
Barkley was not present dur
ing this tirade, which was meant
for private ears. But word of it
got back to him and it won't
help relations between the two
men wno are supposed 10 guiue man crujser
the Truman program through gun,.
tne senate.
By HAL BOYL1
New York WPi In a world of free matches, Americans are
But it was not until the battle working out $30,000,000 annually for gadgets to light their clg
of the Graf Spec that Admiral arets.
The first World War popularized the wrist watch. And what
that war did for the wrist watch, the second World War has done
The Downtrodden Male
It's O.K. for cows, heifers and
i i . t lr In Benton lne "" . . What Admiral Pratt had ar-
,, . gued in the face of almost every
county. But the bulls can t do uNHAPPY ADMIRAL otner admiral about the speed
it. Attorney General George Unhappiest admiral in the na- and mobility of the small cruis-
Neuner ruled today that the law vy today is probably Louis Den- er, was proved right,
against livestock running at feid, chief of naval operations, And the fact that Pratt and
large in Benton coumy apH.i one of the squares! snooters ever Secretary Sfimson forced the na
oniy 10 ine maie uuvmcs. mr to command a Dame wagon.
recalls, Russian
bombs, pineap
ple barges, our
mayor's new
hat. horses o n
Senator Morse
and Judge
Douglas and big league ball-
games so, my ailment has de
veloped into the heaves and I
have Tjeen put to bed with an
oxygen tank." We can remem
ber the time when Os stirred up
more "trouDie ana excitement
in a week all by himself than
all of the matters he refers to in
his note, and never batted an
eye. But he was younger I n
those days and the excitement The Victorious Female
he stirred up was his meat, Silverton Bill Rue was slart-
uitamin nilta unA M OVV- In 4a. hnntini, uihon hi
gen tank, as well. But we bet it wife Tec, commented she felt the navy culd be"er use mr
won't be long before he's up and icky and wanted to go along, money for submarines and
coming again ready for all tak- she did. Bill saw the first deer ?ller ""P1"
" mountainside on their Abi- 'ha" Pu"ln f , c
t -t i: - - i. giant experimental airplane car-
T .' a i t nm wh'ch has now become the
shot and missed. Mrs. Bill sight- admirals,
d the next one, a young forked ...
horn. She took a shot and didn't Since then, some admirals
.... 1 n iiaA 4a nnlfl.ahnlllrlai rtan-
m h Thpv riraffapti ihe rtper 11(1 c ..uu.Ui.
Pratt, whose latter years were
made miserable by his fellow
admirals, was completely vindi
cated. In this famed battle off
the river Plate, the British navy
with small, fast-moving 6-inch-gun
cruisers was completely vic
torious over the 10,000-ton Ger-
carrying 8-inch
opinion was for District Attor
ney Robert Mix of Benton county.
Denfeld is right in the mid
dle of the navy-air force battle,
a battle which he did not start.
Now that it's started, he is pub
licly siding with his brother ad
mirals. But before it started, he
expressed the private view that
vy into building some fast 6-inch
gun cruisers turned out to be
for the cigaret
lighter.
"Now the flint
business alone is
bigger than the
entire lighter in
dustry 15 years
ago," said Al
fred R. Nathan
vice president
of the Ronson
Art Metal
Works, Inc.
The Ronson
company the
General Motors
soon will market
the navy's salvation when it llgnler'
came to patrolling the vast
south Pacific during the recent
war.
could sail to see them.
One of Nathan's present vice
presidential duties is the assem
bling of a museum of mechani
cal lighters.
"In the early years they put
lighters in everything from
sword canes to baby shoes cast
in bronze," he said.
This Rococo period is dying
out. The Ronson Company, for
example, has cut down Its num
ber of models from 1,000 to
of about 100.
In his museum collections are
a number sent by grateful sol
diers who said the lighters saved
It was founded 58 years ago the,r ve bv stopping flak.
by the late Louis V. Aronson, hell fragments or bullets. One
a metallurgical engineer who soldier scratched his will on his
put the voice in the mama doll, lighter, "I leave everything to
equivalent
in its field
its 35,000.000th
Free Spare Parta
Ann Arbor, Mich., UB An
absent-minded professor gave
used car buyer. David Young,
lfl, the scare of his life. The home, cut it
human hand and foot Young freeze before
found in the trunk of his newly- morning and
acquired auto were parts of a
cadaver which the former own
er, a physician and medical In
structor. Intended to use In an
atomy classes and "Just forgot."
. aM Kim nl IranefarrinB
up for the aeep "'"
11 o'clock In the Adm. Arthur Radford out to the
Racine Decause ne naa Deen a
contender for Denfeld's job
an accusation completely untrue.
MYSTERIOUS MARAGON
Jack O'Brien, director ok In
formation for the office of
housing expediter, got a phone
call some time ago from a man
with a thick accent who said:
"This is Drew Pearson call
ing, and I want to know why
Colonel James Hunt spends so
much time around your office?
Aronson, who died in 1940, was
a pink - cheeked man with a
passion for maroon he even
wore maroon shirts.
"Oddly, as a young man he
once won a $5,000 prize from
the Belgian government for de
veloping a safety match," Nath
an recalled.
Repenting of this, Aronson
Brother Jim," and Nathan said
the will was held valid.
Why should anyone fork out
$6 to $5,000 (a custom built,
jewel encrusted job) for a light
er, when nearby every drug
store now offers giveaway
matches?
"We don't want to make any
odious comparisons," remarked
Nathan, indicating the match in-
in a few minutes
Mrs. Rue was on her way to the
Abiqua Ladies club noon lunch
eon and arrived on time. She's
the first lady nimrod to get her
deer so far reported here.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
British Bobbies Seek
To Retain Hanging Penalty
By DeWlTT MacKENZIE
(lA"l PoMlfn Aftilrt Analrit)
London's policemen (better known as "Bobbies'1), who ordi
narily are unarmed except for truncheons, have told a royal com
mission that the hanging penalty for murder should be re
tained.
turned to the mechanical liirht.
If you re not careful I'm going er. His biggest contribution dustry couldn't understand that
to write a story about it. You'd was a push-button invention that one either.
better get rid of that fellow brought the light to life with "But people like to be modern.
Hunt." the pressure of a finger. It made A lighter is a modern, and peo-
The alleged "Drew Pearson" him so much money he could pie feel less awkward using
re f e r r e d to "five-perecenter" pal around with kings. He even them than they do matches.
James Hunt, the friend of Gen- bought a 70-foot yacht so he That's our belief anyway."
the situation between Admirals eral "ar7 Vaughan, and sup- nppkl criDIIki
Radford and Denfeld is not un- Posedly also the friend of the UftN tUKUM
mysterious jonn iviaragon.
Rows like the present flare-up
are not unusual in the navy, and
like a similar navy fracas which
harvested just as many headlines
back in the Hoover administra
tion. It illustrates the unfortun
ate fact that the admirals fre
quently put their judgment
ahead of their commander-in-chief.
At that time, the admirals,
who always worship bigness,
However, Jack O'Brien, be
ing reasonably familiar with the
voice of this columnist, recogniz
ed the thick accent to be that
of Maragon, himself. Posing as
this columnist, Maragon was
trying to scare the housing ex
Why Not Save Old Court House?
To the Editor: Salem was at one time proud of six unusually
beautiful buildings: The old state house, court house, First Meth
odist church, Waller hall, Presbyterian church and Evangelical
church.
One Is gone, and three more are slated for destruction in the
pediter's office away from Hunt name of Progress.
in order to leave a clear field no' "reprooi me oia ouuaingr
lmu H-ck-nilt
They feel that this
criminals.
The commis-
sion is studying I mrTr-
the question of
whether the
laws on capital
punishment
should be
changed, and of
course the bob
bies' viewpoint
point is under
standable. The only time
they carry firearms is on the
rare occasions when they are
confronted with a desperate sit
uation, and then guns are served
out to them, to be returned to
headquarters as soon as the
emergency is over.
However, let not the untutor
ed think that those truncheons
are harmless.
The bobby can throw it with
all the accuracy of the Austra
lian aborigine hurling a boom
erang. Of course, the English police
man's best protection Is the dis
position of the public as a whole
to respect the "law" as repre
sented by the bluecoat.
their best protection from desperate
were bent on building a lot of for himself.
10.000 ton, 8-inch-gun cruisers,
and refused to go along with
Secretary of State Stimson on
a treaty of limitation. Spearhead
fCopyrifnt 10491
MRS. LEWIS JUDSON
1000 Judson St., Salem
used to have terrific arguments of the navy attack against Stlnv
over the rights of the unarmed son was salty Adm. Hilary
burglar. Jones the Admiral Radford of
My man maintained that it his day.
wasn't sporting for a house- But siding with Stimson, and
holder to shoot an unarmed in- holding the same chief of naval
truder something like potting operations job which Admiral
a sitting bird, what? Denfeld occupies today, was
Bobbies handle all situations Adm. William V. Pratt. Pratt
with studied calm, which more believed that smaller cruisers
often than not is mixed with a with 6-inch guns could fire fast
sense of humor which bridges er, and were more effective at
many rough places and engen- close range or at night,
ders respect. But because he held these
They are the law. views Pratt was almost ostra-
GOBBLERS FOR 48 GOVERNORS
Gene Malecki to Escort
Oregon Turkey to Turkey
By WILLIAM WARREN
McMinnville. Ore.. Oct. 13 U Thanksgiving day turkey will
be "on the house" for governors of all the 48 states from Mc
Minnville, the town toting a turkey to Turkey with an Invitation
to that republic's President Ismet Inonu to join us in observance
of Thanksgiving.
Yow can I leave my fari
a deed. . . not a debt?
course, there'll also
for President Harry
The live bird will be placed
in a custom - built crate. The
crate will be painted white, with
map of the United States on
Norton, president of
the Northwest Poultry & Dairy
And, of
be a bird
London cops don't have to go Truman.
tin aD.jn.l .linn... -1 Am- Tk. -,.. ...nAn.lkt. a , V.
ican police, and it's rarely that 8th annual Pacific coast turkey m"p of Turkey on one side and
a burglar or any other denizen exhibit, to be held here Nov.
of the night carries a gun, even 15-18, decided to invite Presi- the other,
for protection. dent Truman and the 48 gover- rj. w.
ihe English laws about the nors to Join President Inonu,
nap of firearms im nrettv fierr Km 1 Thankauivinff n.v "onaat
For example. If you as a observer." In celebration of the Produ,, c-. suggested that an
householder catch a burglar In great American holiday. A sort ambassador of goodwill should
your home, you may not shoot of International goodwill feast, accompany the bird of goodwill
him unless you believe he Is dark meat and white meat com- to Istanbul and this turkey-
about to do you or a member of pliments of McMinnville ,.... , ' .
your family bodily Injury. The So Nov. 19. the dav after the n,1"d'd ,own nA-
mere fact that the thief may be turkey show here closes, planes So Gen Malecki, turkey
climbing out the window with will launch a mass turkey flight show manager who thought up
the family silver doesn't give from McMinnville airport to the the international observance in
you the right to shoot. If you capitals of all the 48 states, to the first place, will be aboard
do use a gun under those cir- Washington. DC. and to Istan- the turkey flight to Turkey,
rumstances and kill somebody, bul He'll serve as 'part - time
It Is murder. President Inonu. who already nurse" to what will probably
I knew a chap In London who has said he will be "very prove the world's most pamper-
had served a long prison sen- pleased" to receive the turkey, ed bird In its flight across the
tence as the most notorious bur- will get the grand champion Atlantic and over the Medlter-
glar England ever had produced, broad breasted brnnre that's ranean. Then he will personally
I -wrote a book wilh him about type of turkey reared in these present V'e how's No. 1 turkey
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