Capital AJournal
An Independent Newspaper Established 1888
GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher
ROBERT LETTS JONES, Assistant Publisher
Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che
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newt published therein.
BY BECK
Frankly Speaking
Salem, Oregon, Friday, October 28, 1919
'For the Good of the Country'
The purpre of Admiral Denfcld, chief of naval operations,
is a staggering blow to the United States navy. The man
who dealt that blow, President Truman, should have real
ized that. And, as if to add a touch of irony to the affront
to the officers and men who sail the nation's ships, Tru
man picked October 27, formerly known as Navy day, to
announce Denfeld's removal.
Truman's reason for the purge should have prompted
him not to bounce Denfeld. The president said he was ex
iling the navy s number one man in uniform "for the good
f the country."
Truman said he was acting on the advice of newly
appointed Secretary of the Navy Matthews. Matthews'
three months in office should have been sufficient time to
have cautioned him against any such move aimed at a
naval officer whose record of 41 years in the service was
of the highest type and ability as an administrator was
such as to keep him close to Washington during the war.
Perhaps, however, Matthews' row-boat type of experience
In Nebraska convinced him that the navy should be rele
gated to a subordinate position in the nation's defense.
V V V
The country has a right to know why, for its sake, Den
feld should have been picked for oblivion. The admiral
was called before the house armed services committee
several weeks ago to testify on the issue of national stra
tegy and unification policies. Chairman Vinson of that
house committee had assured officers of the services that
arrangements had been made for them to speak with com
plete candor and with no threat of reprisals for statements
made.
But, regardless of that assurance, Denfeld got the axe.
Why?
Was it wrong for the chief of naval operations to say
that "the principles and objectives of unification are not
being realized because the navy has not been admitted to
full partnership therein"? At the hearing he blamed the
difficulties of unification on "the fact that unification
processes have not thus far been in accord with either the
sjpirit or the concept" of unification.
Was it wrong for the ranking officer of the navy to point
out that control of the seas is just as important to the
nation as control of the air in time of war? The specific
reason for a fleet is control of the seas so that national
power can be exerted against an enemy. Even though
the Japanese fleet had been destroyed for all practical
purposes at the time of the Okinawa invasion, for instance,
the U.S. offensive against that island demanded the great
est fleet of warships in our nation's history.
If Russia Is strong in submarines, how can the United
States reduce this threat except by the means of the navy
to combat the subs and then for the ships of the navy to
carry the troops and supplies overseas?
All that Admiral Denfeld has asked is that the navy be
given equal place in the nation's defenses. For holding
out, and speaking his mind, for a balance among the armed
forces, Denfeld has been purged.
Unity of the services is crippled by such high-handed
methods from the "top side." To make matters worse per
sonally, Denfeld learned about his being ousted not from
the secretary of the navy but from his aide who read the
news on a press association news ticker.
The "Denfield case" is a threat to the nation's defense.
It is also a major blunder for Truman and for the coun
try itself.
The German Problem Intensified
What is happening now in Czechoslovakia, has already
happened in other Balkan states, and happened in Yugo
slavia until Tito's revolt, can be expected to happen in Rus
sia's new puppet state of East Germany, which can be
expected to be as restive and unreliable as other Moscow
satellite states, though much depends upon what the west
ern powers do with and through the Bonn government of
West Germany.
As Anne O'Hnra McCormick, foreign correspondent, re
marks in the New York Times.
"Russia's methods do not change. Her techniques arc as
overworked as her adjectives. She has given herself a year to
transform Eastern Germany into an amenable satellite, and the
process shouid be easier than elwwhere because she has had
absolute contril of the life of the lone for more than four years.
There will be action squads, a pervasive police force, youth
brigades, trea.st.-n trials, mass arrests and concentration camps
all very familiar to the Germans before the people are
judged ready to vote "yes" on the regime. By that time all
opposing elements, including the non-communist "dummies" in
the present rabinet, will be well out of the way."
However, the prediction is that the East Germans from
Tiow on will get preferential treatment, to offset the bru
tality which has created a state of sullen rebellion with
hate of the Russians, inborn in the people. They will be
encouraged to rebuild Iheir industries which Russia long
ago dismantled and carted off as reparations, also encour
aged under the pretense of partnership in the Soviet pro
gram of "lilH-rating and uniting" Germany under the
Kremlin.
So conditions in West Germany, unless wisely handled,
re going to be more difficult, with the campaign in East
Germany for unity. It is a complicated problem since
there are some nine million deportees from East Germany
tn the western zone.
What Constitutes a National Emergency?
President Truman, who sees a national emergency jus
tifying his personal interference in the military unifica
tion dispute justifies the purging of top navy officers and
war heroes, sees no emergency justifying his interference
in the coal and steel strikes which are slowly paralyzing
the industries and economy of the nation now pushed down
to the lowest point in 3'4 years.
At the same time ho fired Admiral Denfeld, naval chief
of operations for expressing his honest opinions at the
request of congress. Mr. Truman said that he wouldn't in
voke the Taft-Hartley law in the two strikes for some time
yet. Labor experts believed he would exhaust every other
means, includii.g use of his personal prestige, before using
the law as a cudgel to batter through n settlement of the
twin stoppages.
The president told a news conference that he would not
hesitate to use the law if he felt that a national emergency
existed. However, he said, he's convinced the nation is a
long way from a crisis.
All which raises the question, what does the president
consider a national emergency, a dispute between military
top brass, or the economic strangulation of the country
by labor bosses and coal and steel operators over a question
of non-eontributary pensions 7
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JSTA 5
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
U. S. Convinced That Stalin
Plans Showdown With Tito
By DREW PEARSON
Washington U. S. diplomats from the Iron Curtain countries
meeting in London this week had before them conclusive evidence
that Stalin now plans a showdown with Tito.
The showdown will be undertaken, as far as possible without
leading to war, but if war is necessary the Kremlin apparently
vasion may be a stepping stone
to Greece, Turkey, Suez, Africa,
India.
We may not fight at first, but
eventually we will.
So the state department fig
ures it is better to be firm at
first and let the Kremlin know
exactly where we stand. That
is what American diplomats
faced this week in London.
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
has decided to
risk it.
Here are the
factors which
led American
dipl omati to
this conclusion:
1. Tito's nose
thumbing at the
Kremlin has be-
c o m e coma- &
gious. Other sat- h
are figuring
that if Yugoslavia can get away
with it, they can too. Tito, once
trained as an NKVD agent, has
sent his own agents out to work
Drew Pcarsfta
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SIPS FOR SUPPER
A Slight Slip
BY DON UPJOHN
Mr. Sprague in his column this morning offered the sage ob
servation that "if your property tax is higher this year than last
(for Salem property) it is due to an increase in assessed valua
tion not to increase in millage." It seems he stepped off a little
on one foot with this assertion. As a matter of fact if the
assessed valua-
tion in the city I
of Salem hadn't
been uppedl
about 25 per
cent the tax
would have been
90 mills this
year instead of
72.1 mills for
the overall tax
in Salem. The
county levy
would have been
MORE NAVY HEADACHES
The navy has got itself into
more political hot water this
time the blue and sleepy waters
of the Caribbean. The governor
against Moscow in Hungary, of Puerto Rico, Luis Munoz Mar
Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Ro- in, is so sore that he has decid
umania. ed to ask recall of Adm. Dan
2. The end of the Greek civil Barbey, commander of the Car- MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
war was not because the guer- "JDean sea ironuer.
riillas were defeated, but to rest What has happened was that
them for an attack on Tito, the U.S.A., while preaching de
Seven thousand Greek guerril- mocracy for France, Italy and
las already have been transfer- the North Atlantic pact coun
red to Bulgaria and Czechoslo- tries, let the navy play footsie
vakia to get re-equipped. with one of the bloodiest dicta
3. A brigade of the East Ger- tors in all Latin America
man people's police has been President Trujillo of the Dom-
sent from Berlin to Bulgaria, mican Republic.
They were previously trained in
Shoe-Shining Immigrant Says:
Thank God for America!'
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
iun rorclfD Affairs Analyst)
can see why farmers of that dis
trict would object to securing
permission for any building they
might want on their farm.
Our remark of last evening
about the Christmas spirit being
already abroad in the land was
further exemplified when C. F.
Purdum, route 2, he of the Dia
mond brand Delicious apples, left
a nice box full of same for the
edification and gastric delight of
up to 25.6 mills instead of 19.9 folk hereabout. These Delicious
mills and the school levy would apples take about the same place
have been ud about 10 mills. In in the Delicious apple world as
some individual instances the size and general qualifications
taxes may be up because of high- s do the eggs. Jim Uebelman
er assessed valuation but the lcf' have in the poultry world,
other fellows' are down in pro- I looks to us as if a few boxes
portion. What makes the tax ' these apples hanging on the
bills higher is because more limbs would bust down most any
money is being spent and that's PPe tree and they are as al
all that ever will increase tax luring and tasty as they are big.
bills. It's simply a case of when In laet we thing we'll save one
Duddine- is beine eaten some- for Christmas eve and leave it
General Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his capacity as president of
Just as Adm. Richard Conolly Columbia university, has urged his big army of students to seek
Yugoslavia during the German got some U.S. diplomats sore by opportunity rather than security.
occupation, know how to fight maicing a special courtesy cru se The best example of perfect security," he said, "is a man serv
Tito. to visit Dictator Franco in Spain, ... , , . ,
. v.. so Admiral Barbev made a sue- We term in a federal prison
i. vne HLiai-K on iiio nas ai- . , , - . .:, nenernl Ike
... ol nmtrteev fall nn Trill lift general 1KB
reacty taken place, tnougn no ' " ---- w . . sneaking
news was published in the Yugo- Furthermore, he did so after was .eafn
Slav papers. The U. S. em- Governor Munoz Marin had of
bassy reported that Russian strongly advised against it. when he said
guerrillas crossed from Hungary, tGv- Munoz Mann, educated w";
fired a few shots and then re- Georgetown University U.S. UrS'aeJs
treated. Tito hushed it up to ; one' thfubef 'r'e"d,f,and reasonable se-
keep from alarming his people, cultural links the United States "asonable se
has with Latin America. . " 1
a-j u. -;tj ,. aji. what terrifies
What the Kremlin is banking j Barbethat Dictator Trujillo the average cit
on is the belief that the United had siaightered hundreds of lzen of !n
States is not readv to risk war. ... . pmmtrv which
...:n ;, ,,, Haitians,, nad instituted a reign ' Demit n.ce.i.
. of terror, and that if the United e"u.rJK.es..
Ml
body has to pay for it.
Capitol Zoners Please Note
(Independene Enterprise)
People do not like too much
regulation. This was shown
by our sock for good old Santa.
We were going to say, in our
sock, but they don't make socks
that big.
"Tell me about it," I replied
"I was thirteen years old when
I landed in New York in 1890
as an immigrant from a town
near Naples," said Suozzi. "I
was alone, for my family re
mained in Italy, but I had $5
in my pocket and friends in New
York. It was a great adventure.
"I went into a foundry as a
molder's helper for S3 a week,
and finally earned $6 or $7 a
States really believed in the de- vale "lu" " ",UUB"'
mocracy it talked about, so also a regimented security a secur- "In seven years I saved $400
iiy wiiii.il futa iiiiii vii mc nu- anu 1USI 11 111 U Maim uid&u.
n-cnita hi Rarhav Innlr hi. same plane wnn everyooay eise urn 1 nad laitn. 1 sam: Here a
...--chin. -nil ,n th Tiii-tatftr a security which he can't es- man can rise. He has oppor-
fronting American diplomats Afterwards Trujillo wanted to caPe because it's just too darned tunities'. So I carried on, and
has become: How to head off ..-h nnr n'f hi warshin on a good. , when I was 21 I became natural-
war by telling the Kremlin return call to Puerto Rico. The 'zed- America was my country,
we would fight though the state department asked Cover- One encounters this thought "Among the various jobs I
final decision actually lies with nor Marin what he thought about in many quarters these changing had was that of elevator man
congress. it then proceeded to ignore his days. t the old Hotel Manhattan.
History shows that Hitler advice and permitted the Dom- I ran into an interesting ex- There 1 formed a speaking ac-
never would have invaded the inican navy.g visit. whereupon, ample of it down in the subter- Quaintance with many famous
This is based partly on U.S.
isolationism, partly on Moscow's
'I0,?!?? he,Tit0 attaCk shouw iU Tnavy
Thus the main problem con-
Reminds us of the war days. Ruhr if he thought the French Admiral Barbey added insult to ranean labyrinth of passages men Theodore Roosevelt, Wil-
when the property owners in A printed report said that coffee
liam Howard Taft, William Me
ttle Talmadge (new high school prices were going up. Instantly
district) voted down the zoning there starts a run on coffee. At
47 to 12. No doubt the zoning any rate, it's good merchandis-
would be a good thing, but we ing, as it were.
Dead But Not Forgotten
White Plains, N. Y. CP) Westchester county jury com
missioner Ralph Mumford got this letter:
"I reside at Woodlawn cemetery. I was pronounced dead,
and buried in February, 1928. However, as you seem to be
very hard up for jurors, It might be arranged for me to serve.
Please contact St. Peter."
The note, carrying the signatures of a Mam'aroneck man
and presumably written by nis wife, said in postscript
he just had received his third jury notice since death.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Happy Birthday to Our Big
Pin-Up Girl, Statue of Liberty
By HAL BOYLE
New York (P Happy birthday today to America's most
glamorous girl!
She's B3 years old, but isn't looking forward to her old age
pension. She still carries a torch for every man in the land, and
she is true to each one that has stayed true to her.
A chubby lass who always
wears the same old-fashioned pendence. She was modeled by
dress, she has welcomed more Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, a
people to New York than Grov- young Alsation sculptor,
er Whalen. She never lifted her She was a million-dollar baby,
skirls for a cheesecake photo, It took the French four years to
but she has posed for more snap- raise $700,000 by popular sub
shots than Greta Garbo ever scription to build her. But it
hoped to avoid. was nine years before the Amer-
This national sweetheart the ican people got around to taking
number one V. S. pinup girl her as a gift and raised $300,000
WOUld nave lOUght. He guessed Inl,,.,, h ..lrlni. the fjnvernor k.lh Nu Vnrb'm
right. France wouldn't fight at to give a reception for the visit- Rockfeller Plaza in which the Kinley, John D. Rockfeller, Sr.
that time. jng Dominican navy. ' ' AP headquarters building stands. "That's the sort of thing that
Again Hitler ngureo tnat tne instead the Governor "went .' . th- shoD-keeDers of can happen in America.
HMhTlnvl!T.I?ir,.0t thehn fishing " And ominican the underground city is Joseph 'Well things moved along all
if he invaded Austria, then saiiors were given a frosty re- Suozzj a friendly Italian-Amer- r,8ht wltn me- 1 8 married
Czechoslovakia. Again he guess- ception by an acting governor. ican 0't 72 who run5 tw0 shoe. and there were fiye children
TJgthL Mine, wf et AU ' which haS raised tUTOTe shining and quick repair estab- .We "t"r"ed to Italy for, blt
in? L l ? in tne cibbean- '. , lishments. I dropped in on him w!th W People, and there
Perhn, he mi.ht nnt have hT" " t0p """l BT a shine and found him fum- I experienced he evils of the
Perhaps he might not have in- bey haJ gone on the radio to . newsDaDer headline Mussolini dictatorship. We were
vaded Poland if he had thought denounce Governor Marin and , a newfpaper nea, glad to get back to free America,
the British would fight. In any nis iand-Use policies, with the wny 18 ne exploded, ..In 1929 j eslablisned thcse
event, he guessed wrong, and lt that Mari has now 'hat here are PePle, many ol tw0 snoe-shining shops and we
World War II began. decided to ask for the admiral's them 1,ro4m .fore,f". lands' w,ho have done all right.
The on, Minn miv he the same are out to turn this wonderful . . .
-. ' recall.
regarding Yugoslavia. Its in- (Coprritht utn
country of opportunity into
totalitarian state?
is Miss Liberty. r
the statue thai '
stands gazing
seaward from.
Bedloc's Island,
a 1.1-acrt" wel
come mat out
side the golden
door.
Every year
she has a birth
day party and,
of course she
IA2
nil lurte
for a pedestal to put her on her
feet. The campaign was put over
the top bv Joseph Pulitzer's New
York World.
The first rivet was put in
place on July 12, 1886. and
President Cleveland formally
welcomed Miss Liberty to citi
zenship on October 28th of that
yes r.
'kJ She immediately took the
country by storm and over the
years has become a great nation
al shrine. Some .100,000 tourists
troubled an uneasy year. Mayor visit ner annually,
also will this troubled and un- .
easy year. Mayor O'Dwyer and During the war years Liber
the French ambassador will be ty's lamp, which throws its
there to make speeches, and a lot beam twenty miles across the
of other people. It would be a waters, was darkened. But when
pleasant change If Miss Liberty the boys came back home, her
made a speech herself for a torch glowed as a beacon again
change. She's a strong silent for them by day and by night,
woman. ' She stands 131 feet, has a
She's had quite a time of it right arm 12 feet thick. She nev
some career our girl. She has er went In for boyish figure
greeted more than d0.000.000 he Is 3.1 feet thick at the waist
immigrants to our shores, and Iine. nd weighs 4S0.O00 pounds,
ought to know how these new- Thirty people can stand in her
comers felt, entering me mna
of opportunity.
Ann odd fact: In all these
Perhaps she had an even hard- ,llicide bv jumping from this
er time getting set up here than ,nnor p,,rch Thj, migh,
the average Immigrant. rause n0 evcr wllnt(.d to
desecrate Miss Liberty.
The idea of the Statue of Lib- Or it could be because nobody
erty was conceived by a Franch hut a midget could crawl
historian In 1117(1 on the 100th through the windows in her
anniversary of American lndt- crown.
Plunged Into Trouble by Neckline
Washington W.Rl A plunging neckline plunged Mrs.. Jon
ell Williams right into trouble with the law.
She was arrested and convicted of carrying a eoncealed
weapon when her low-cut dress revealed to police that she
had an ice pick in her bosom.
Marion County Recollections
-Banking in Earlier Days
By OSWALD WEST
Some of the old-time banking methods and customs were amus
ing, but they produced profitable returns from 10 to 12 per cent
interest. And in the real early banking days, in and around
Portland, 36 per cent 3 per cent per month.
Along in the 1890's at the Ladd and Bush bank In Salem, I was
witness to an amusing transac
tion ler's window."
An old, early - day. political A,rriv'n8 at Cashiers Catch's
side - kick . of Asahel Bush wicket, Mr. Bush instructed him
(founder first, of the Oregon to take up the note at its face
Statesman and later, of the " accruea merest.
u.l,i I1J . r, hi. recnerl OOne, and
and to discuss and laugh over
early day political events and
characters.
He was a rancher - stockman
trom down arouna raisiry, n i .u. i.,,i;n r Mr
County. He had disposed of his Bush who toW him , s(,nd no(.
land holdings and was retiring down ,0 oW Bm So n(J So g,
from the cattle business. Paisl and te hlm , Mid lo
Through a public sale he had coll(,ct j, ..
auctioned off his ranch equip- Th(s ws done ,he ,eUer nf
ment taking, as was customary, transmittaI M substituted for
his neighbor 9 note payable at ,he ,. ,n ,he bm receivable
a later date. pouch.
, Before leaving, he extracted Around a month later, the
from his wallet a $500 note maker of the note dropped in,
one taken at his auction sale. and headed for Gatch'i window,
"Hero Bush." he said. "Cash this Mying: "I want to pay my note"
note for me. I'm short of spend- giving his name and address,
ing money." Gatch turned to the bills re-
Said Bush, "we don't discount ceivable pouch which disclosed
outside paper. Our loans are all that the note had been sent to
made direct and inscribed on Paisley for collection,
our own blanks. Furthermore. Not wishing to disclose the
we know nothing as to the tinan- true state of affairs, the cashier
rial standing of the maker of said: "I don't seem to be able
that note." to put my hand on that note.
"Well." said the old stock- So, I'll give you a receipt for
man, "you're going to rash this the money and mail your paper
note. Of course, you don't know to you later."
anything about his financial "Oh." said the Paisleyite, "old
standing But I do. You don't Bill So and So handed it to me
suppose I would be a damn fool a few weeks ago. and told me
enough to take it unless I knew to stop in and pay it the next
lt would be paid, do you? Come time I was up this way." So
on get me the cash." out came the note, which was
"Well." said Bush, "we will handed to Cashier Gatch with
have to step around to tht cash- the money to pay it.
"If immigrants told their chil
dren of their exDeriences and
"Heaven itself couldn't provide what America offers, there
greater opportunities than this wouldn't be so many subversive
wonderful America! elements at work. Here we have
"They should have had my freedom and opportunity,
experience!" "Thank God for America!"
How to Paint 336-Foot Tower
Moultrie, Ga (UR) Officials of radio station WMGA won
dered how a Berlin, Ga., painter could make such a low
bid on painting their 336-foot antenna tower, but they gave
him the Job.
Yesterday they learned his secret. They found him loaf
ing around instead of working and asked him if he wasn't
ready to start. .
"Yep, but you're not," he answered. "You haven't taken
the tower down for me."
This was
the proper entries
made.
As the note fell due, the
usual notices were sent, to which
no attention was paid. When
long overdue, Gatch called the
r
Wish 1 1 i
could tell all $ Y
mothers now mv
children "go for" stabilized BEVERLY.
They love its rich-roasted last
and it is such good food.
WICHITA. KANSAS
Seemi Ilk everybody who
TRIES IT loves BEVERLY!
Beverly comes in wide-mouth, re
usable ilau jars. This STABILIZED
peanut butter spreads like a dream,
tastes fresh as fresh-roaited peanuts.
AND NEVER GETS LOOSE OIL
ON TOP ! Spread Beverly often
it's a food high in body-building
protein and energy values.
'ut trrrs"
Taste without riskl unuii m'w TVti ," iiifl' e5
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