Capital AJournal An Independent Newspoper Established 1888 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher ROBERT LETTS JONES, Assistant Publisher Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che meketa St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Want Ads. 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409. Full Leased Wire Seme of the Associated Press and The United Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this paper and also news published therein. Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, November 15, 1919 Who Runs the Armed Forces? Secretary of Defense Johnson has worked himself into a danprerous position. His firinjr of Admiral Denfcld, chief of naval operations, was one of the explosions that could be expected because of the apparent position the secretary of defense has taken. From all inaications, Johnson, the ambitious West Vir ginian who would like to be president, treads on unconsti tutional ground in his tough, crackdown on the navy. In fact, David Lawrence, the commentator and editor of the United States News, calls Johnson's actions and policy "contempt of congress." Lawrence contends that Johnson is defying the military policy defined by congress and thus is in contempt. Law rence goes so far as to claim "a good case for impeachment of the secretary of defense and the secretary of the navy can be made by the House armed services committee for presentation to the whole House at the January session." The U. S. constitution gives congress the "power to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces." In passing the "unification" act last sum mer, congress provided that any secretary of a military de partment or a member of the joint chiefs of staff could make recommendations on his own initiative to congress after informing the secretary of defense. At the request of the House armed services committee, Admiral Denfeld testified as to his fears of the trend of the nation's defense policy. In so testifying, Denfeld was acting within his rights on two counts : First, he had been directed to do so by the House armed services committee itself, and secondly he was within his rights as a member of the joint chiefs of staff. Because Johnson could not throttle him, Denfeld was punished. Secretary of the Navy Matthews, but a few months in office, requested President Truman to dismiss Denfeld. Matthews claimed the president as commander in chief could not tolerate any "twilight zone" of loyalty to higher command. It was inferred Denfeld had erred into the "twilight zone" and thus should be removed. Matthews neglected to mention he had recommended two months before that Denfeld, who had expressed "the very same views on the navy that later became public," should be reappointed for another two-year term as chief of naval operations. This concept of command of the military as pushed by Secretary of Defense Johnson and approved by Truman defies the power of congress over the military as described by the constitution. Johnson would set the president as absolutely supreme over the armed forces. As Lawrence says, however, the title of "commander-in-chief" bestowed upon the president "makes him the agent and not the mas ter of the congress." The commander-in-chief must be obedient to the rules on the military as defined by con gress as much as any enlisted man. "Otherwise, militar ism would raise its ugly head in our midst" , . , Congress did not delegate to the joint chiefs of staff the right to dispose of any of the armed services or to weaken any of them by withholding appropriations actually voted for their use. "Instead, the most solemn promises were given by the secre tary of defense that the roles and missions for each service al ready written specifically into law would be respected. "The secretary of defense and the secretary of the navy now have violated their pledges. They have attempted to do by in direction that which they promised congress they would not do." Johnson's actions point too strikingly toward a merger of the armed forces instead of unification. In a merger, identity of the services is forgotten under the supreme command, while in unification, identity of the services is preserved for the good of the nation and the services them selves. Lawrence concludes: "Congress must pursue this matter or confess to the country that under the broad excuse of 'military security' the civilian officers have taken over the minds of our soldiers, sailors and airmen and are exercising a form of intimidation and coercion which the people's representatives are unwilling to challenge. "If the congress dors not assert itself, the people must do so. "No issue of greater importance looms up for the consideration of the people in the congressional elections of 1950." Alaska An Achilles Heel The defenses of Alaska which along with its proposed statehood, both of which have occupied a large part of the time of congress, both at Washington and numerous junkets, seem as far away from realization as ever. From the army and air force games have apparently failed to speed up adequate preparedness. (iovernor Krnest (iruening of Alaska, in a copvwright interview in the magazine "V. S. News and World Report" declares the territory is so defenseless that it is "wholly vulnerable and could he taken tomorrow" bv one or two airborne divisions in a blitz from Siberia amlAlaska could be "the Pearl Harbor of the next war." Alaskan defenses, Omening said, are "next to nothing." Because of the housing shortage, he said, the armed serv ices have only about 7,0I0 troops throughout the entire territory. It would be worse than Pearl Harbor "because once Russians were in, it would be a tremendous job to oust them." Gruening asserted that air force officials, including Secretary W. Stuart Symington, have publiclv "admitted" the Pacific coast of the United States is vulnerable to air attack from Siberia. As a result, he said, the air force wants to "start removing some of the military factories from the Pacific coast" to safer sites east of the Rockies. Among these are the proposed removal of the Boeing Air craft production from its huge Seattle plant to Wichita, Kansas. The vulnerability of the Pacific coast states could be jrreatly relieved, Gruening argued, if adequate air bases were promptly built in Alaska to intercept enemv bombers coming in from Siberia. But he said the "implication" is that any branch of our armed forces would frankly admit and act on the assumption that any part of America is vulnerable to attack, instead of taking the stand that all parts of American must be defended at anv cost." The armed forces last spring asked $137 million as the bare minimum for military housing, radar screens and other defenses in Alaska but congress voted only $06 mil lion and Greuning said Alaskans are convinced that until "wt get statehood and adequate representation in con gress, to fight for our rights, we will never get adequate BY BECK Husbands V SCAT! 6ET OUT AHO CLOSC VWSv ) THAT DOOR. THIS IS NO PLACE fM2 ! M fOU CHILDREN. I'M 60INS TO MjMiMN V TAKE OFT WUR FATHER'S WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Both-Sides-of-Fence Downey Loses Californians' Respect By DREW PEARSON Los Angeles John Kennedy, live-wire publisher of the San Diego Journal, recently took a man-in-the-street poll as to who represented' California in the U S. senate. After some hesitation most of those followed were able to re member the name of republican William Knowland, who has been in office BY GUILD Wizard of Odds SIPS FOR SUPPER The Gingko By DON UPJOHN It seems when Mrs. Paul Gemmell of North 24th street dis covered the gingko tree on the state hospital grounds as re ported herein last evening she also ran squarely into one of the pet hobbies of Mrs. Cornelia Marvin Pierce who has made quite a study of the gingko trees and considers them an extremely fas cinating topic. less than a full term, but al most none was able to remem ber the name of California's sen ior senator, She ridan Downey, now rounding out his twelfth year in the sen ate. The political object lesson to be derived from Downey's anonymity is you can't be on every side of every issue and still keep the people's inter est and respect. In 1938 Sheridan Downey was Driw Pen. the primary. For if Downey by some miracle squeaks through the primary, the big boys will vote against him in the final election and for a republican. For they, like so many others, in California, have no respect for both-sides-of-the-fence Sheridan Downey. "WHO ARE YOU?" A Manhattan ur c h 1 n tugged at the gold-braided sleeve of Fleet Admiral Chester W. Ni mitz, as he and Mrs. Nimitz were emerging from a church service on Fifth avenue. "Hey, mister," said the kid. "give me your autograph?" And THREE MAIN REASONS FOB A BUSINESS TO GO BROKE: INEVPeClENCE, BAD JUUGMtN I, LACK OF CAPITAL, ,. AMERICAN MOTWEP, BV ODOS OT 5TOUWE THCI fcjAt3lfc" IN A HOSPITAL JATCDMITV X WARD MMONS TUG ancient EGYPTIANS, ODDS WEPE EVEN THAT A MIDDLE-AGED PERSON WOULD HAVE ARTHRITIS. . A5 L ar (f&P ML. fWO, tC MHNCAPOtlS)- iiiffi elected as a new and flaming li- he held out a bit of paper beral. The oldsters, the labor leaders, the small farmers ral lied behind him. He promised them what they wanted and they believed him. this is probably available at the state library. Mrs. Pierce tells us that probably this form of tree life is 150,000.000 years old, which is quite a bit before our time. And well she might, as it seems this tree is considered by those in t h e p know to be the! oldest living f thing on the face of the earth. It prob ably came up out of China, countless mil lions of years ago and has faise teeth under Britain's na Nimitz was willing. "Have you got a pencil?" he asked. The boy begged a pencil from a bystander, and the one-time commander-in-chief of the Paci- Once elected, Mr. Downey f,c "sln nxi m in a hiV nana-uag 10 write on, proaucea his signature. But as Nimitz started to move on, the boy said, "Hey, mister, who are you, anyway?" The admiral chuckled; Mrs. Nimitz laughed. "There," went to Washington in a blaze of promises and expectations and simply sat. He took no vigorous stand on any issue. And it was only after many years as a sen ate "mute" that the much her alded gentleman from southern California finally got active. Be lieve it or not, his activity was then cast on the side of those who originally tried to defeat him. Sheridan, for strange reasons best known to himself, came out said, "There's one for your ego w m MERRY-GO-ROUND The two greatest entertain ment palaces in the world are controlled by government offi cials. DP FROM SOVIET UNION SPEAKS OUT Collective Farm Worker Tells Contrast Between Russia, U.S. By NICOLAS NESSIN (Eeprlale fr UiUr U tbt N. York Tint.) I am a displaced person from the Soviet Union. For three months I have been working on a farm in Penn sylvania as a manual worker. I would like to inform your readers how different the life in the United States is from that in the sue Soviet Union. In the Soviet Union I was improve tne workers' nutrition, from 1934 to 1937 an agrono- Tne farm was close to he So- mist at the large state farm viet Union's largest power plant, "NI 7," near the town of Pavlo- that of Dneprogres, but the farm Brad. I know well th. life of did not have electricity. workers at such farms. This 11 did not have P'Ped water And the Youngest FT to BA Member London (P) A three-year-old girl has been fitted with a set of Secretary of Commerce ....... u.j .i . suoolv and there were nn kw. iiu ii vu (iiijiac!., L-anic uul i o i l lc 1,01 n nau iiiuic mail a " on the side of the big ranchers fharle! Sawve,r owns a majority thousand head of cattle and other ae facilities. The farm had and the big utilities. Some attributed this weird about-face to his brother, an as- mterest in Coney Island, and Ambassador to Egypt Stanton Griffis acquired control of Ma- tute attorney who represents disn q"are. Garde" in 133. some of the big boys. Others at- livestnrir The wero mnr neither a bathhouse nor a bath. than a hundred workers, all Three miles away there was a lodged in two rooms with one door, under one ceiling. Each worker had a box for The interstate commerce com- "- "'- .1,,:.. i. , , woreer ra tnhlltPri It tn thp irion that Shtt. ,to iviiguc in viiccr T.U J .l - gone through all of the vicissi- tionai heaith plan. Dentists say ridan knew Truman was sure to wle" U ordered the railroads to th, 0 , . " " ' 25 percent on coal-burning lines. W,OTkers w(ltn faml What the railroads didn't realize gl? fparate room, is that the commission over- "Vf- I h.ad ? stepped its authority. The law under which the order was is sued limit tho Ntmmiim,'a emergency powers to freight tne chie so"" oI our nourish- carners. The Russians have just turn- tudes and changes of a very the child, Anne Smith of Birtley, vissicitudinous and changing is the youngest person in Brit earth. It seems there are two a'n wearing dentures. "Anne's , , . c. . . . own teeth came through all dis- of these trees in Salem, as far as colore(J and caused her much m she knows. The one on the state neaith," said her mother. "Doc hospital grounds is the female tors said they had to be taken tree which bears nuts. These, out." Anne will have to wear she says, the Chinese eat, but the false teeth, adjusted about i i k , i ii every six months, to fit her only the kernel, the rest of It growing jaw. for seven years, being distasteful. The other ging- gy that time, say her dentists, ko tree here is of the maple type she will have her own second and stands near the east ent- set of teeth, ranee of the Salem public lib- " rary. It bears little catkins. Mrs. Plan to take a little ride Pierce considers these trees the around today not in West Sa unique pieces of plant life in Sa- lem but in the west part of Sa lem, in fact she classifies the tree lem across the river and as an itself as perhaps the unique piece old Salemite we bet we'll feel of plant life extant. In 1938 the right at home. But we bet it Smithsonian institute issued a will be many a day or year be long report on the gingko tree, fore folks get over calling tt Its history and its habits, and West Salem. There's a Reason for Everything Falls City, Neb. (U.R) A colorful pre-game ceremony started at high school football games this year has been discontinued. The ceremony provided for dousing all the lights during band maneuvers, with miniature lights en the caps of band members outlining various formations. Officials stopped the practice for financial reasons: When the lights went out a near-avalanche of non-paying fans streamed over the walls and dashed for seats. MacKENZIE'S COLUMN British to Take 'Practical' Step In Recognizing Chinese Reds By DeWITT MacKENZIE UIF) Porriin Affitn Anftlnt) There would be no surprise at the disclosure by diplomatic authorities in Washington that Britain has decided to recognize the Chinese communist government. The signs have been point ing in that direction for some time. The British far eastern experts Dclieve that nationalist China is incapable of fail of re-election in 1948, so he. Sheridan, planned to bow out of the senate and start practicing law for some of the big boys himself. At any rate, the senator from California became a more rabid spokesman for the big land own ers than anyone else in the sen- nto iven ntihliehinM tnwii.iA... book on reclamation which had ed ,dwn a re1uest from the Is little sale and which could not nnh. government for a $50,000, have been financed vorv eacilv U0 loan. irom a senator's salary. . Maj- Gen- James Mclntyre, workers with families had a sin- As an agrono- separate room. with a berth, a table and a chair. small bathhouse, open only on Saturdays. Men and women used it on alternate Saturdays. Wages for workers on the farm varied between an aver age of 80 rubles a month, paid to milkmaids, and 120 rubles a month, paid to tractor drivers. (An ordinary suit cost 600 ru bles). Half of the workers' Potatoes and barley soup was waKes went to pay for food. wages were paia one or two ment. montns alter they were earned. There were 600 milk cows on AU ot f"5 farms products the farm and thus it had plenty "earn, livestock and wheat of milk. But in spite of this, the were sold- From the skimmed workers received only a pint of milk casein was made for glue, skimmed milk a day. Meat sel- Tne workers were able to take key man in the defense depart- dom was an ingredient of the ll?le these products. will up Bna very iew vegeiaoie y - -v- wuu wum Favorable to Mother s-in-Law Milwaukee (URL-Harvey Kath has a new feeling about his mother-in-law which he expressed after she fell into a lake. Be jumped in after and pulled her to shore. "Good baby sitters are scarce these days," Kath explained. Moat neonle dirin't Vnnw menfs work on Capitol Hill, but at the wind-im nf nnrre. retlre next month a real loss. last month, Downey threatened ccop,ri,ht m to block adjournment with a fil ibuster if the senate voted sal aries to his twin enemies, Re clamation Commissioner Mike Straus and Regional Deputy Richard Boke. For some time Downey has intimated that Commissioner S2LjfiZ?& POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER gated by the federal govern ment. Unable to get congress to abandon the 160-acre limitation, Downey didn't want the law en forced. And when Straus and Boke insisted on enforcement. He succeeded in sneaking a rid er through the republican-con were used in it. No one made any effort to China vital to British interests, and are up against John Bull's cherished crown colony of Hong Kong. . This is the picture right now. 4 The long-range position may be a bird of another color. It's one thing to subdue China by force and another to keep its some4ialf billion people in hand and develop such a huge country economically. On that latter point Seymour further effec tive resistance to the conquer ing Red mili tary machine. T h e r e f ore. F.ngland will be taking the "p r a c t i c a 1" v 1 p wpoint in granting recog nition to protect her great Chi nese interests which some ex perts estimate at 10 times the Topping. AP correspondent just value of Uncle Sam's interests, back in America after long ... service in the Far East, has this London Is aid to plan de facto ,0,fJJ'' ,. . , . , ,. . , lh. ror II the Chinese commun- ,m'0" ists fail to carry out their pro- Poisonous Snakes Still Crawl, So Hal Has Subject for Today By HAL BOYLE New York VP) When I woke UD this morning. I reached under trolled 80th congress cutting off Dv Ded fr my secret news ticker from Moscow, their salaries. Its page was blank. The Russians had had a quiet week-end. Later, the democratic 81st Thev hadn't used atomic energy to move a single mountain or congress put back the salaries change the course of a single river. . ... ... V t . ana even votea to restore live lawning, ir months back pay. And it was reached under that that caused Sheridan to the other side gnash his teeth and threaten a of the bed and ? filibuster. pulled out my Downey made such fierce and secret news ft iicKer from Washington. It was completely blank too. No body had resign ed from the cabinet, and even the admi als were silent, world! ferocious noises that kindly Senator Carl Haydcn of Arizona, in a closed-door conference of senate and house committees, begged that the salary issue be postponed until January. "If not, Downey will filibuster and keep us here for weeks," Hayden urged. "You don't know Downey," snorted Congressman Mike Kir wan of Youngstown, Ohio. "He take as much of the products as they needed. ... Near the farm was the shop, where usually only whiskey and imitation coffee was for sale. If cloth should appear in the shop, it was assigned to a worker by the manager. The farm had no club or other place of entertainment. No cine ma was ever shown. Trade un ion meetings were held often, to Improve labor discipline. The farm had no library, not even newspapers. Not infrequently the NKVD (secret police) was there, in spite of the fact that the farm had a political section represen tative, a party secretary and a trade union secretary, whose work differed very little from that of the NKVD. From specialists such as "Drink Moola Coola for that a8ronomists and engineers more tired-out, draggy feeling " was demanded than from unskil- "Well anvwav " juid Fn. led workers- Therefore, it was "yoSheTnZcoluMmniS whose din"!d!.m.e' 1 w" obIi?ed to rrvstal hll ha . . .. ?"'" nErve lo mane an I threw the ball away in dis gust. intense effort. The agronomist would be the -..v.. - ut.aii j utl IJ 1 1 f I: , . i i , , .... For I realized that I had reached 'ilu FlXTSg I UmeTreryUrtLJTad HZ noth ns tn lav Nn n.u,. "'m'" a.i arit say. views, no nothing. news, no nerves became worn with and the What a dull Suddenly in this despair I re- ? J"' "Quit brushing your teeth hasn t got the guts. He talks big and get me my crystal hali but runs out when you say boo I'll have to look into the future," at him. I called to my wife. "The supreme court," contin- she obediently trotted to the ued Kirwan, "has already held closet, openec a hatbox and In the cases Of Lovett, Dodd and riracooH nut mv nlrf rrv.lnl hall called what a columnist of 40 years' experience had told me once when I askei him if he ever ran out of ideas. "Son," this pulp paper Plato had observed, "as long as sin and After many years of being a displaced person, I find myself on a farm in Pennsylvania (at Washington Crossing, Pa.). Th. poison snakes are alive in this beautiful mnrf,n Z , ? world, a man of character and ' " aPfrtment- I ...;u -i i- have an electria kitchen, a bath year. gram of industrialization. there- Whet her tne unnen niaie. by liflin( thp Cninese ,tandard will follow suit remains to be of livng ,nd Msinj tne decided. Washington holds the nomic hardships which generate view that there still is much ,ne raw poWer o revolutions, Chinese territory which the Red ,hr chances are good that the armies haven't overrun, that the Chinese communist regime will people haven't shown voluntary ,ithcr R0 down or nave , ch(r acceptance of communism and actM. , drastically changed as that the nationalist government t0 rem,in communist perhaps in still is a going concern. nam, oniy. It is true that Generalissimo "For advanced industrializa Chiang Kai-Shek has created a tion it the prerequisite to the so powerful defensive position on cialization of both industry and the big island of Taiwan (For- agriculture and without such mnsa) off the southeast coast of dynamic changes the communist China. He might be able to movement in China will toon withstand a long siege. lose Its virility and unity as did The nationalist forces also the nationalist Kuomingtang hold a considerable area tn west- phase of the Chinese revolu- ern China, and the government tion." once more has established iLelf This means the Reds will have in the world war capital of a long-term, uphill Job to do. Chungking. It is precisely because of this Still the fact remains that the that the nationalists are hang Reds hav overrun most parts of ing on until the last ditch is lost. Watson, that these back salaries are payable. We also have a le gal opinion from Lindsay War ren, the controller general, tell ing us that Straus and Boke have an even stronger case. I, for one, refuse to be bluffed by Sheridan Downey." Cong r e s s m a n Kirwan was right. The conference commit tee restored the back salaries of Downey's mortal enemies, and the senator from California did not filibuster. Today. Senator changed his mind again, has de cided there's life in the demo cratic party yet. and is running for re-election. In fact, he's run ning desperately. with hot and cold water and a refrigerator. I receive $100 a month, and vegetables and eggs in addition. I spend less than half my pay in living expenses, And so, today, we will take up the problem of poison snakes gloss -""Jr fr "other ."d.I -t my fill of food of my j cnoice. As a matter of fact the sub- Mv workriw ( iokt nnra feeling will always have some- ,u- o no ll i . j . "'"c cuuut. ment stores keep in stock for gypsies, happy mediums and unhappy columnists. I rubbed it to a high with the bedsheet, shook it and nor rtA tnfn it n0n inviri.. lh ball a message formed: "Notre ecL". of in and snakes are in- and the rest of the time I can Dame will go through season winea, and have been since read, write, study the English undefeated." the first reptile sabotaged Eve language or go to the cinema. Frances, who had been look- ms ,ast ,alk that a girl has Can you imagine how low are ing over my shoulder as usual, to eat apples to get her vitamins, the workers living conditions laughed: Tne snake, like the devil, is in the Soviet Union? "Ha, Ha! That's no news. The " cosmopolitan traveler. You And for such a pitiful, miser- Downev ha. sports writers have been saying ""jBt in me aoie existence the worker must inai ior years. r "cianu, ie in perpetual tear of the dlc- I shook the crystal ball hard- Progressive New Zealand and tatorship and the NKVD. er. wishing I had bought the fw oceanic Islands where a In the Soviet Union both my $9.99 deluxe super-duper model, ,"a1k' wouldn be seen for fear wife and I worked, she as an and looked again. It read: I.sinF ocia, standing- agronomist. We lived in con- "It's Truman against Eisen- Tne !a,t ?nake with a voice tinual want. Together we earn- tarn tnnr t.a v n i i , i n . " j in (aar- ea i,uuu rubles, but during a His opponent is one of the hlMl nmmlwrt nf iummh vi hnwer In Helen Gahagan Douglas. ' And "Ha. Ha. Ha!" chortled my f!f n f Ede"- Not once since whole month we' could not save Sheridan knows that this time merry helpmate. "I read that na rynx, and all 100 rubles for clothing. he can't count on the oldsters, already In 27 other newspaper ,hf? can do ' hiss like drama ... the small farmers and labor. columns last week. Rover Boy." criilc5' In addition to all this I am He can count on thousands of ... There are some 2.000 kinds of a free man. . dollars of campaign contribu- For a third time I shook the nak? in the modern world, of I can read what I want I can tions from the utilities and the ball. This time it came up with w"ich 600 are poisonous. write to friends what I really big ranchers. But that will be in the announcement: Anyway, these 600 different mean to say and I know that vsrieties of poisonous snakes are for this I cannot h nut in nr - crecping and crawling around on "'H V.n?erf0!,t' And 1 am o the Govern- n?h.r ? .?!!d ! Iet mnl and People of the United n ,t th , " thUt Pointing SU,M ,or emitting me, a out that neither the Republicans former DP refugee from the So- th.nj Dmocr"u re doln viet Union, to live and work in thing to reform them. this free democratic country. His Father's Voice in the Wilderness Hotden, Me. um Guided by his father's voice, broadcast over the amplifier of a state police cruiser, 2-year-old Walter (Skippy) Tardlff was able to find his way to safety after being lost tor hours in a Main wilderness.