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4 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, November 2, 1949
Sherman to Take Over an 'Unhappy Ship'
From all indications, the choice of Admiral Forrest
Kherman is as orood a one as could be made, under the cir
cumstances, for the chief of naval operations.
In picking Sherman, Truman was putting into the num
ber one job in the naval service a man who has long fought
for unification. In fact, Sherman helped draft the unifi
cation act. Furthermore, the admiral who wears the wings
of naval aviation is alert and probably as keen an officer
as to be found in the navy.
However, that doesn't change the circumstances attend
ing the disgraceful handling of the Denfeld case. The
ousting of Admiral Denfeld as chief of naval operations
was no tribute to the administration's intelligence or in
tentions. From all appearances, Denfeld had still not
been told officially he was being fired except when he and
Sherman went together Tuesday into the secretary of the
navy's office. In fact, Denfeld's first knowledge of being
dumped was when his aide read about Secretary of the
Navy Matthew's statement to that effect on a news asso
ciation wire last week.
Congressman Norblad from this district sat in on the
hearings of the house committee on armed services, in his
position as a member of the committee. He said Denfeld's
removal was absolutely contrary to the promises made by
the services to the committee that no disciplinary action
would be taken for statements made. Norblad's fears of
the effect of the ousting of Denfeld would seem to have
basis. Norblad felt high officers would be afraid in the
future to speak honest opinions because of the threat of
reprisals.
As Norblad said: "If that happens, we will get only guarded
opinions In the tuture, cleared through Secretary of Defense
Johnson. That sort of thing won't do us any good. We might
as well have Johnson speak and let it go at that."
Johnson has given every reason to believe he will try
to bully the services into doing what he thinks ought to
be done. And Truman, being strong for personal friends,
should be counted on to go along with whatever Johnson
tries to drive through.
That would point toward the building of a Johnson-dom
inated unification system. A tight control over tne serv
ices by a man like Johnson could stifle service expression,
uch as Denfeld was called on by congress to make. John
ion can go his bullying way and depend on his pal, Truman,
to back him up. But Johnson refuses to back up one of
his own men, Denfeld. And congress' need for informa
tion will suffer as a result.
So Admiral Sherman moves into an unhealthy situation
in the navy command, fostered by the shameful handling
of his predecessor. If Sherman can bring order out of the
dissatisfaction in the navy, it will be a tribute to him not
to Johnson or Secretary of the Navy Matthews.
Presidential Bee Stings Johnson?
The United States News of Washington, D.C., features
the candidacy of Defense Secretary Louis Johnson for the
demoncratic nomination for the presidency in 1952. It
points to economy cuts in his department, speeches here
and there, and other activities as a bid for 1952 as Mr.
Truman hasn't said "yes" or "no" to a re-election cam
paign, but Johnson is getting ready in case the president
refuses. Says the News:
"Insiders now are accepting Louis A. Johnson, the secretary
at defense, as an active candidate for the democratic presiden
tial nomination in 1952. Mr. Johnson is said by party leaders
to be acting as if convinced that President Truman will not try
to win renomination himself. And the job that Mr. Johnson
holds la regarded by party leaders as one that provides a per
fect springboard for a man with ambition."
Among recent speeches of Johnson are those before the
American Federation of Labor convention at St. Paul, a
dedication speech to the Jews at Yeshiva university, New
York City, a commencement speech at Creighton univer
sity (Catholic.) at Omaha paying tribute to the Jesuits, a
speech to the United States Chamber of Commerce and con
ferences with newspaper editors, theater owners and vet
erans groups.
At secretary of defense, next to the president, Johnson
is the most powerful man in Washington, controls more
jobs and spends more money and his name is in the head
lines constantly as a target for abuse or praise. He directs
the expenditure of $15 billion a year, a third of the budget,
has 800,000 civil employes, two-fifths of all federal em
ployes. However, there is no sign that Mr. Truman intends to
retire and all his actions point the other way. He is still
playing politics for votes in every issue and since his re
election, power has gone to his head. Johnson might as
well forget it.
Presidential Political Finance
President Truman's October report of the nation's finan
cial condition acknowledges that he had over-estimated tax
revenue in his budget message of last January and under
estimated expenditures for the eurrent fiscal year.
Mr. Truman stated that the peacetime deficit on next
June 80 will be $5. IS billion, against his estimate of $900
million, a miss of $4.B billion. His estimate of $41 billion
revenue was revised downward to $.18 billion, a miss of
IS billion. The January spending estimate was $41.9 bil
lion, his present estimate was $43.5 billion, a miss of $1.6
billion.
Direct and indirect subsidies hit the treasury hard.
These subsidies included $1.4 billion to support farm pro
duce prices, $1.3 billion to support the market for second
mortgages on housing and the always substantial postal
deficit. Veterans' benefits also were hiked, $1.9 billion
more than had been foreseen for those first two items.
The president laid responsibility for about $3 billion of
unforeseen spending on congress," but acknowledged that
congress had saved nearly $1 billion by refusing to enact
his universal military training and aid-to-education proj
ects. There was also an unknown number of billions saved
by rejection of compulsory prepaid medical, hopital and
ether welfare services.
This failure to economize on both the part of the presi
dent nd congress, with record peace time tax receipts
forcing deficit expenditures is responsible for Mr. Tru
man's campaign to boost taxes by $5 billion which he vir
tually admits now would not balance the budget. More
cver, high taxation has already reached the point of dimin
ishing returns and his estimates have proven not worth
the paper written on. It also indicates the complete col
lapse of the economy drive under political pressure.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Navy's Watchdog Unit Saves
Taxpayers Thousands in Funds
By DREW PEARSON
Washington While certain admirals were attracting the na
tional spotlight with broadsides of criticism on Capitol Hill, an
other navy unit was patriotically retrieving thousands of dollars
for the taxpayers without attracting an) attention at all.
This unspectacular nose-to-the-grindstone outfit was the Pitts
burgh office of Cev.
cian, referring to the president s
exercise period.
Truman started talking to his
guest, Senator McFarland, ate a
few crumbs of the delicious
cake. Despite his braggadocio, he
took Graham's warning seriously.
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
the supervising
inspector of na
val mater ial.
With headaches
Instead of head
lines for a re
ward, this
watchdog unit
went through"
navy contracts v-
looking for fjf.
As a result, "'"
enough bugs were combed out
ft
BIG TAX LOOPHOLE
Congressman Walter Lynch
of New York bluntly informed
the big life insurance companies
at a closed-door session of a
of the navy's contract with the ways and means subcommittee
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Slick Slim
BY DON UPJOHN
Many a man has become famous in history by overpowering
wild beasts with his hands, strangling serpents, et cetera, and
occasionally word is had of some fleet-footed lad who chases a
jackrabbit and retrieves it with his hands. But it remained for
our old friend Slim Dowd, the well-known printer who looks
like Edgar Al- 1
1 e n P o e, to I " strated just how tough a guy has
make the prize 1 to be to spend 24 years in the
catch of the fw- 'a! navy- He got nis clackers yes
year, namely a f ' Xi terday afternoon and last night
huge China '$!SWkJt eniyed a hearty dinner of fried
pheasant cock. ' w chicken. But to give a little ad
He was hunting ' Jf "Wys J ditional proof he is slated this
the other day f .qfe'iy i evening for a dinner of elk steak,
near Lebanon 1 .: '"fc "Those clackers," said John,
with Ben Pade I I "went through that fried chick
when Slim told I i-0 I en just as if it was pumpkin pie
Ben to stop the """ and they'll make mincemeat of
car. He slipped "" v""" that elk." That's the kind of a
out of the car, over a fence with rugged guy our FT & BA is
Ben following, made his way Proud to make in its ranks,
through a little brush and then As to the FT&""bA we have
laid down hi! Suddenly an(jther membersni card to
Slim stooped over and came up gi for Weldo Hatteberg, man-
XT- u T . ; eer of a Richfield service sta-
Canonsburg Steel and Iron com
pany to reverse the company's
claim for $1,346,306. Instead of
paying Canonsburg, the navy
collected $574,157.
In another case, the admirals
last week that the gravy train
they have been riding for the
last three years had reached the
end of the line.
A loophole in the tax laws, en
abling the companies to escape
PEOPLE OUTNUMBER
DEER IN THE US BY
ODDS OF ONLY 26
TO l.LEADIN6 DEER
STATES ACE:
WISCONSIN, MICHIGAN,
PENNSYLvANIA.TEXAS,
CALIFOPNIA, MAINE...
ONE IN OF US THINKS,
TELEVISION WILL KILL PADIO.'
EVEN IF ITS ONLY A PUNCH
BOAPD.lIN EVEI?Y 3 AMERICANS
GAMBLES IN SOME FORM.'
(GltDVOUA&IO, S OMUIFIXO, CHICAGO)
had gloated over purchasing $1,- billions of dollars of income tax-
131,188 worth of material from es, is going to be closed.
the cooper-Bessemer corpora
tion at the bargain scrap price
of $63,251. The watchdog unit
discovered, however, that this
wasn't such a bargain after all.
For, believe it or not, the navy
had bought its own material, al
ready paid for by the navy.
But, thanks again to
watchdog unit, Westinghouse
Electric corporation was order
ed to shell out an additional
$18,724 for equipment that it
had bought from the navy for 2
percent of the orginal cost.
The navy unit also cracked
down on the company owned by
Perle Mesta, U.S. minister to
Furthermore, Lynch warned
the insurance executives that
they might as well quit protest
ing about paying up retroactive
taxes.
"These obligations due the
government are going to be col-
fne lected one way or another and
i mean retroactively, x.yncn
served notice at a closed-door
meeting. "The honeymoon is
over."
He offered the insurance ty
coons either of two alternatives:
1. A "stopgap" bill, pending
revision of the tax laws, requir
ing the companies to pay taxes
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
British House of Commons
Further Curbs the Lords
By DeWITT MocKENZIE
(on Forelcn Affair AtnlTAtl
Britain's house of commons Monday night passed a bill which
further curbs the powers of the august house of lords, thereby
gaining another notable victory in the generation-old fight be
tween the elected representatives of "the people" and the ermine-
robed nobility.
Luxembourg' and famed dinner ?n a11 a,bove 92 Pe,rcent th.euir
uivuiuc nun, uivcaLiiicMia ,ui mc
China pheasant rooster firmly
grasped in his hands. The roost-
tion at Silverton and one of the
. . ,, 1.1,,-. jwft". v& vm ojv ev""'s
. H "K , ... ? ; verton chapter to have both up-
and did a bit of scratching but
didn't make his getaway. Ben
Pade vouches for this tall tale
as the truth and who could doubt
Ben?
pers and lowers out for full
membership. Weldon is an active
Legionnaire World War II vet
eran and is papa of two fine
young lads.
hostess to President Truman.
The Mesta Machine company
had tried to charge the navy
$36,000 for maintaining a navy
plant, but the watchdog unit
took exception to a few items,
including 100 percent for over
head, and cut the bill down to
$22,400.
When the bureau of yards and
docks tried to give away a navy
years 1948 and 1949. (Under a
tax law formula written in 1942,
tax exemptions on investment
income have amounted to 100
percent in the last three years.)
2. If the companies don't want
to make retroactive payments
for two years under this bill
already introduced by ways and
means Chairman Bob Doughton
of North Carolina Lynch pro-
This measure
restricts the
lords from
holding up for
more than one
year any legis
lation passed by
commons Here
tofore, the lords
could delay
commons meas
ures for two
years.
That in itself
is a notable victory for com-
DeWIU Mickenil
Minister Herbert Asquith back
? in 1911. This was in connection
with an act which would bar tha
lords from interfering with any
finance bill in commons.
The house of lords was ada-
mant in its refusal to make any
such concession. Thereupon,
Asquith issued an ultimtum that
either the lords would agree or
he would call upon the king to
create enough new lords to in
sure acceptance in the upper
house. The lords then surren
dered, for the prime minister
Deputy Sheriff John Harger
has come up at last with his new
clackers, genuine navy ones.
John was for 24 years in active
service in the navy before tak
ing over his present deputy's job
and the boys have done an ar
tistic piece of work on his clack
ers. Not only that, he demon-
This, we understand, is the
29th anniversary of the estab
lishment of radio broadcasting in
the world. It's quite a husky
lad now but certainly at that
age is old enough to know bet
ter than to do some of the things
it persists in doing. Otherwise,
happy birthday.
huilriino nr. h ,,n,,to
of the National Tube company, Psed that UP 0T a"
the watchdog unit stepped in
and finally sold the building for
$24,800.
In another instance, navy
owned electric furnaces and in
dustrial equipment were lying
idle. So the watchdog unit got
busy and leased this equipment
to the Allegheny Ludlum Steel
corporation for $709,000,
three years (1947, 1948 and
1949) under a so-called "aver
age valuation" formula.
This would amount to an
across-the-board lowering of tax
deductions for all insurance
firms, without regard to sur
pluses in reserve funds.
However, the insurance execs,
led by A. J. McAndless of Lin-
AHother company,' the Elliott coln National, Fort Wayne Ind.,
Pup Saves Child From Death
Macon, Ga., Nov. Z u.R) Four-year-old Patricia Aarons
clutched her puppy in her arms when she toppled out of an
upper story window of her home and fell 40 feet to the
ground.
The child suffered only scratches and bruises. She landed
on the puppy, which was crushed to death.
Doctors said Patricia would have been killed or seriously
injured if she hadn't been holding the dog.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
A Woman for President?
Hal's Got His Ideas on It
By HAL BOYLE
New York W) There is a hubbub on the horizon over whether
America should elect a lady president.
The mere suggestion of an elected female boss in the White
House has stirred a lot of anguished male yawping, but a "Madam
President" is as inevitable for the United States as the return of
short skirts
people are people, not because
the leaders wear a blouse or a
vest. But let's let the girls find
this hard fact out for themselves.
r
This is De- f
cause p o w e r j
tends to move '
in a single di-
rection, unless
bellion or rcvo- f
lution. And for
100 years real
power in this
country has
moved steadily
from men to
women in every field
company, tried to buy a navy
office building for $38,100. Just
as the contract was about to be
signed, the watchdog unit mov
ed in with its inspectors and add
ing machines. As a result of a
more careful appraisal, Elliott
company had to pay $60,725.
NOTE The man in charge of
the navy unit which is doing
such a good job of saving the
taxpayers' money is Capt. M. C.
Barrett. His chief assistants are
Comdrs. P. Page and J. K. Ken
nedy. TRUMAN'S WAISTLINE
vigorously objected to both pro
posals. They were in no position
to make retroactive payments of
any kind, they insisted, since the
money that normally would go
toward the tax payup already
had been distributed as divi
dends. "Well, make up your minds,"
replied Lynch. "You may as
well realize that you can't ride
; "e any longer."
When McAndless protested
that the life insurance firms
were not prepared for such a
sudden blow at their reserve
funds, and that retroactive pay-
rn.nl. ,I,A..I
Though the president jokes bilit of . number Df compani
about his expanding waistline Lynh shot back.
"Why, you've been put on no
tice as long as two years ago,
when you first discussed your
exemptions with the treasury de-
actually he watches his diet
carefully.
The other day at lunch, Tru
man ate two pieces of home-
cured country Missouri ham- partment. You.ve knoWn all
... unusually irKe purtion OI 1onff ih.t v ua ,
make good on these unpaid tax
es some day. So you can't accuse
Only a false sense of pride has
caused men to take over the
reins of power and shorten their
! lives with worry.
Nature meant men to be gay,
careless, thoughtless children of
hi Bo;i t)1e !urli Mature meant women to
work, plod and worry, and gave
This trend could be reversed "K m greater vitality tor tnese
nnlv hv a nm mall, rpv-nll tasks.
meat for him. The dessert was
ice cream and chocolate cake.
Looking at the cake wistfully.
Truman turned timidly to Brig. arhitrariiv .
uli). ii aumc vuaiiaiu, t, line
House physician, and asked:
"Doc, can I have a piece of
that good chocolate cake?"
"No, sir," replied Dr. Graham
sternly, "you can't, Mr. Presi
dent." "That's all I wanted to hear,"
retorted the president as he
the congress of dealing with you
Why not insist then that they
run government and industry?
Let them enjoy the wrinkles and
coronary thrombosis that go
with care and authority.
Senator Margaret Chase Smith
of Maine has predicted the re
publicans will win in 1952 if
they name a woman on the tick
et. But I am against any plan
to begin feminine rule by nom
inating a woman for vice presi
dent. For if elected, she would
preside over the U. S. senate,
and I would spare the good, gray
and bald heads of that au
gust body this ignominy.
If we're going to go about it
In Arnrt. then for the sake nf
A recent i.auup pou snowen old entiment let's first retire
public sentiment has changed th-,. fine old male warriors and
sharply on the question. It ,i.t ,U-girl senate.
found 4H per cent of tne voteri Blll the pr0per thing to do is
were willing to support a quali- a r.t a woman president
fied lady presidential candidate, trightawav on s clear-cut
whereas in 1937 only S3 per i.,iv ...i.
and today there isn't enough in
surrection of this kind left in
American men to quell a girl's
basketball team from Guate
mala. Today women own most of
America, and therefore it is high
time they took over the respon
sibility of running it. They have
ducked their duty long enough.
It is for that reason that this
poor man's philosopher pledges
himself to cast a .ballot for the
first lady to head a national ma
jor party ticket. Be she demo
crat or republican, she gets my
vote and as many more as t
can stuff in the box.
McAndless and colleagues fi
nally suggested that 1947 and
1948 taxes be written off with
the 1949 and 1950 taxes paid
if the taxable floor in the Dough
ton bill was raised from 92 to
95 percent of investment income.
Lynch flatly rejected this, how-
boldly reached for a b piece of ecuUVrntU Tuy to make
"i-il .. - .. . - t i ., UH lltt11 iniiiua un nis two-way
III see you at 5 o clock." Dr0D0!.ai '
warned the White House physi- ' (Cop,riiht m
Prisoners' Choice for a Song
Deer Lodge, Mont. When violinist David Rubinoff
played recently for prisoners at the Montana state peniten
tiary, one of the popular request numbers was:
"Don't Fence Me In."
'SLIGHT' ADJUSTMENTS NEEDED
758 M7es on Gaon of Gas?
But Is It Really Worth It?
Wood River. 111. (U.P It's possible to get 158 miles on each
gallon of gasoline you put in the family chariot.
Whether you figure ifs worth what you have to go through
is another matter.
R. G. Greenshields, director of the Shell Oil Co. research labora
tory here, said the laboratory
each year stages a "mileage mar- car of accessories such as the
athon for engineers." This year fan, water pump and generator
it was won by a modified 1924 to get about 54 miles per gallon
mons, but it cuts deeper tnan could have done exactly as he
that. It opens the way for final threatened.
passage of the commons bill na- It is puite unlikely tnat lhe
tionahzing England s huge steel king wouId refuse such , re.
industry. puest by the head o govern.
mL . ment.
The preponderantly conserv-
ative lords had agreed reluct
antly to lesser measures for state A Prime minister, by the way,
ownership, but had refused to cannot be a member of the up
accept the steel program, which Per house. Only a member of
represented the high-point in commons can hold that position,
the socialist program of nation- A1ong that line, the king himself
alization. cannot enter the house of.com-
Now they will have it rammed mons without the consent of the
down their throats, and the gov- house.
ernment will be able to achieve As I recall it, that rule was
this before its five-year term laid down after Charles I enter
ends next July. ed commons and arrested five
It's interesting to note that members,
there was one other way in These days when a message
which Prime Minister Attlee from the throne is brought to
could have beaten the lords on commons, it is carried by a dig-
this steel legislation if neces- nitary known as the black rod
sary, although it would have who knocks respectfully at the
been an extreme measure. doors to the house and begs for
He could have followed the admission as agent of his
precedent set by the late Prime majesty.
How Much Is $42 Billion?
Minneapolis ttl.fi) Win U. S. government expenditures esti
mated at $42,000,000,000 for the fiscal year 1949-50, the
question arises, just how much $42,000,000,000 really amounts
to in understandable terms.
The family economics bureau of Northwestern National
Life Insurance Co. estimates it would make a stack of $10
bills 240 miles high.
It would equal the combined wages of 1,000,000 manufac
turing workers at present average wage rates, tor 15 years.
It is a third greater than the total cash receipts for all the
the produce of America's 6,000,000 farms In 1948.
It is slightly more than the U. S. government spent in World
War I.
It is slightly more than the C. S. government spent In the
142-year period from 1776 through the fiscal year of 1917-18,
inclusive.
It is more than one-sixth of our present total national in
come. It is $700 per American worker.
It is $1,050 per American family.
Spending $42,000,000,000 in a year means spending $80,000
a minute for 24 hours a day for seven days a week for 52
weeks.
cent would pledge themselves to
such a precedent-shattering step.
Men are fools to oppose the
idea of a woman president. In-
I wouldn't mind if my own
wife were the first winning can
didate. This is not so much be
stead of opposing It, they should cause I could latch on to part
demand it. Once and for all it of her $100,000 salary or that
would end the feminine delusion she would have $50,000 s year in
that the mess the world's in is tax-free pin money.
No, it's because of this possi-
strictly man-made. Let's dwell
a while in a political stew stir
red by the dainty hand of wom
an. It'll be s change anyway. The
truth is, of course, that the
bility: when an acquaintance
said, "who was that lady I saw
you out with last night?" I couM
reply:
'Thst wasn t no lady that
globe s troubles ansa because, was your president:"
model which got 158 miles to the
gallon,
Toward that goal, the gear
ratio has to be changed from 6-1
to 10-1 and the tire pressure in
creased from the normal 32 to
35 pounds to 110 pounds.
That, with the use of a light
lubricant, will enable a motorist
to get 45 miles per gallon.
The compression has to be
raised as high as possible, which hour and coast until the speed-
entails lowering the valve seats ometer needle drops to five
in the engine block. With that, miles per hour. You keep re-
the motorist will get 49 miles s peating that over and over until
gallon. you are tired of getting 158
The next step is to strip tha miles per gallon.
if the car is operated at a low
speed. All these changes are go
ing to make it 95 per cent cheap
er to run a the car, Greenshields
Insisted. He used a 1947 model
to demonstrate.
After that it gets even harder,
though.
For further reductions, you
have to cut the ignition after
reaching a speed of 20 miles per
p m