"Capital jkjJoiirnal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 GfORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher !i 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 Service of the Associated Press and The United Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use tor publication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this paper and also news published therein. : 4 Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, November 22, 1949 3 The State Prison Report A two-months' investigation of the state prison by the board of control ended with a report hedged with adjust 'ments anion? the penitentiary personnel. Complaints over alleged carelessness in connection with the death of . a convict who committed suicide in March prompted the investigation. , m The report avoided the role of judge over individuals " and their conduct. Instead, it called for reorganization of j the guard personnel and for employment of a full-time doctor, two male nurses, and a full-time chaplain. Certain shifts in personnel assignments were bound to come from -. such an investigation. ' The investigation has been a good thing. It has amount ed to an appraisal of the prison by board members who are -relatively new to the specific administration of state in stitutions, since two of the three members came into office ' by the election of only a year ago. v As might have been expected, part of the trouble was 4"in a shortage of manpower and facilities. That is leav ing aside the matter of personalities and the question of ti the alleged carelessness in the handling of one of the con evicts. - As George Neuner, attorney general and the man who "directed the investigation, said : "The increase of the prison "-population . . . has overtaxed all of its facilities, and the :Tack of finances has curtailed operations." The state . '.prison, like everything else in Oregon, has been growing. ''J;' The report has come forth with a constructive "ac- - "counting system" for the prison. The board has de ';cided to have the warden, George Alexander, make a r- monthly report in person. This will permit the warden to i make suggestions as to improvements. This will permit ",also ready attention by the board following a prison break which, in one case, terrorized the community earlier in the year. Regular, frank reports by the warden to the, board should permit the members to act in advance to keep the prison in shape so that the warden will have the facilities and pro . gram he needs to administer the penitentiary properly. Or the members will be in position to make recommenda tions to the legislature if they are not in a position them " selves to take adequate action. Such an analysis of conditions by the warden leaves the decision for corrective action to the board. In this connec v..tion, it should be noted that the board of control, created in 1913, has as its "primary function" management of i! - the 10 major state institutions. vi Reports by the warden could be supplemented by tin s' announced visits to the prison by board members to check conditions. This combination of personal reports and board visits might be worked out for the other state institutions, too. " The Two Jimmies Byrnes and Roosevelt ' James F. Byrnes of South Carolina with a long "record In both houses of congress, then supreme court justice, then resigning to become war mobilizer and later secretary of state, in a speech before the southern governors' con ference at Biloxi, sharply criticized administration spend .. ing and called for a cut in federal taxes and public deft. He stated: ;. "Our real trouble Is debt and taxes. We cannot cure it by mora debt and more taxes. We should devote to cutting ex penditures some of the thought we are devoting to taxing and .borrowing. Bui cutting expenditures is not seriously consid ered In the executive departments and new taxes will not be seriously considered in congress. So deficit spending will con tinue." Byrnes pointed out that if expenditures for national de fense, foreign aid and fixed charges like interest on debt ;Were eliminated, we are spending in one year $15 billions for civilian-domestic functions of the federal government. ,In the four years of peace from June, 1945, to June, 1949, :more than $2 billion in taxes in excess of the taxes col lected in the 12 years of Roosevelt's administration were collected from June, 1933, through June, 1945, which in eluded the depression and World War II. ,', Byrnes stated the number of federal civilian employes has increased until there are more than 2 million, costing ,'$6.5 billion yearly and the number is increasing daily. ",;',There are 65 departments reporting to the president, we are making direct payments to 17 million persons one ;'out of nine of the total population. Which, though he did not say it, '3 enough, with their dependents, to win any 1 national election. t At the same time Byrnes was warning against debt and deficit spending, James Roosevelt, eldest son of the late "president who has announced his candidacy for the demo- cratic nomination for governor of California, said in New ! York in the American Mercury magazine, that "deficit spending is the taxpayers' best guarantee of economical - government,' and that a balanced national budget today would result in "the utter collapse of every government on ; earth now friendly to us." He further attributed to our balanced budgets the responsibility for both the stock mar ' ket crash of 1929 and the late war. All of which reflects the difference between a statesman ., and a demagogue seeking public office and the hopeless ;; split in the democratic party. Only the Old Lottery Lure V According to a 1000 man hour study, presumably in "social science," reported by the University of California in in Los Angeles, the appeal of radio "give-away" shows, V with their "vast and variegated array of prizes, lies less in the acquisitiveness of fans than in their yearning for mod ?r em 'magic' " The reports states : j. "Contestants and members of the radio audience are made 1 to feel they can re-live the Cinderella story either directly or J? vicariously as a wave of the program sponsor's wand makes j : their dreams come true, it was stated. There seems to be an : increasing need during these confused times for belief in this ;' sort of magic. This belief, rather than the desire for 'loot,' is tx the prime factor responsible for the increasing popularity of : such programs '' ;; All of which is so much bunk and interesting only as dis I closing how professors of social science can waste their own and students' time in moronic pursuits. The appeal 1 i of give-aways in movies as in all lotteries or games of ! : chance to get something for nothing, which seems univer- sal in humanity. The joy of the winners frequently turns '. to howls of anguish when they try to cash in and pay in : come taxes, and the "Cinderella complex" evaporates. ' Like the old "bank night" lotteries that the movies , staged during the depression to bolster business, movie r. "give-aways" are a clever device of the radio to stimulate its decreasing audience of listeners and offset the ravages 1 of television. Instead of improving their dreary programs they have substituted the lure of "something for nothing" r in a new setting. BY BECK That Guilty Feeling WHAT'S THE USE OF CRAMMINS M3UR HEAD lllfirmllTiTrilNiTHnTfMillll ( FULL OP STUFF MXI'LL NEVER REMEMBER? J 1 WHEN I ASKED DAD TO HELP ME DO MY ffl ft fl 1 1 ARITHMETIC, HE 6AID HE'D FORSOTTEN ) I HOW YET HE'S MADE A-SUCCESS OF ffl III II W J Shis lifehaswt he? ou're always ll I isfHV TELLIN3 ME TO DO THINGS THE S lllWMm ffl SIPS FOR SUPPER Upset By DON UPJOHN Two deeds were filed with the county recorder's office here today showing transfer of some of the huge timber holdings once held by the Silver. Falls Timber company jn the Cascade moun tains east of Salem, these being taken over by a concern from .ongview, Wash. Of course, a big deal like this is of interest- to everybody i n i the county b u t a feature i n -volved in it is of peculiar in terest to this column for probably what! can be rated a peculiar reason. As near as wc can figure oull from checking over the de Don Upjohn scription In a casual way the land involved in this big trans fer has on it one of the great natural features of our region, same being the well known Ta- ble Rock, which has been doing 'war L-i ftVJ its share of keeping this column idea of a Thanksgiving economy, alive during the years. It makes This, it seems, makes it possible us wonder whether Table Rock for us husbands to buy our tur under new ownership and man- key necks and have our Thanks agement is going to be as giving dinner without monkey amenable in the future to party ing about the rest of the family Heddy Swart has assigned to it at all. Let 'em go out and get in the disposition and determina- their own drumsticks and white tion of what the weather is go- meat Maybe we'll organize a ing to be in these parts from club. time to time. As the customers know Hedda insists when there's The Chinese communists don't snow on Table Rock and as long seem to pay much attention to as It's there there's going to be protests, demands, et cetera on rain down here in the valley, part of our state department Now it may be this situation was seeking release of our U. S. con agreeable to the old Silver Falls sulate officer in China who has Timber company when it owned been taken into custody by the Table Rock, but it remains to Reds. It looks as though sooner be seen whether the new Long- or later this may turn into a job view company will want to for Sam Spade, Nick Carter, or change it. Maybe It won't fit some of the other radio sleuths In with its plans and it may who always seem to get their want some other kind of weath- man. MacKENZIE'S COLUMN British Socialists Advise Ciergy to Stay Out of Politics By DeWITT MacKENZIE UT) Foreign Affair Analrati Sir Stafford Cripps, Britain's austere chancellor of the ex- -chequer, advises the Church of England to stay out of politics. Such a pronouncement by a cabinet minister would in all events be of great importance, but it takes on peculiar signifi cance as coming from Sir Stafford. The chancel- lor is widely known as a Christian who puts his beliefs into practice seven days a week. He is credited With applying his re ligion to his so cialist politics as well as to his personal life. D'wl" "'" Even his political opponents Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, agree on that. who is known as the "Red So when Sir Stafford takes Dean" because of his extreme the church to task folks want to left views and his great friend know what's cooking. ship for Soviet Russia. Well, not only the chancellor The good dean visited the but the labor (Socialist) party United States a year ago and re has been greatly worried lately proved us for our aversion to over speeches by prelates of the communism. He did a lot of Church of England. The politi- talking here, and later the arch cal leaders are wondering what bishop of Canterbury, Dr. Goef part churchmen may play in the frey Fisher, who is head of the next general election which will Church of England, sharply dis determine whether the experi- owned the sentiments express ment in socialism is to continue, ed by the dean in America and For example, Dr. Geoffrey Canada. Fisher, archibishop of Canter- bury, who is head of the Church Those who oppose the Church of England, recently referred to of England taking active part in the coming election as a "gather- politics do say that the clergy ing shadow." He told the syn- are qualified to pass judgment od of the convocation of Can- on events from the spiritual and terbury that there was "need moral standpoints, and should be for united effort to overcome allowed to speak in these fields, our economic plight." Other As the public conscience, as prelatcs have expressed concern scrt the opposition, they are all over economic conditions. right. Some political observers have Of course in years long gone, expressed belief that the church the ciiurch took a most active leaders may be attempting to part in government. In the mid bring about a coalition govern- die ages the king's chief minis ment. The Socialists have tcr was a cleric. But we don't thumbs down on, that. have to go back that far to see the influence of the church In In considering the position of temporal affairs of state, the Church of England, it must Specifically, the late arch be noted that it is the establish- bishop of Canterbury, Dr. Cos ed church, that is, a state cflurch. mo Gordon Lang, was generally Those members of the House of credited with playing a major Lords in parliament who are role in the abdication of King known as the "Lords spiritual" Edward VIII, now Duke of Win are biships and archibiships of dsor. The archbishop is said to the Church of England. The have been utterly uncomprom king himself is "defender of the ising in the matter of the young faith." king's desire to marry Mrs. It, therefor. If easy to see Simpson. er schedule. Anyway, if they do, it's going to sure be tough on Hedria. From Hamburg, Germany, comes a little dispatch saying that a Danish truck driver lost his cognac laden trailer on a highway near that town and he only noticed the loss when he tried to park. The party sending the dispatch offered the little side comment that it should be a well-oiled highway. This new setup they have of selling various parts of a turkey all cut up and ready for the stove may entirely upset our old why there is a difference of opinion in Britain as to how far the church should become in volved in political matters. It is doubly clear when one recalls that the clergy of the Church of England are, broadly speaking, conservative, and therefore are not in harmony with Socialism. This statement isn't altered by the fact that occasionally one en counters a "liberal" like, the Very Rev. Hewlett Johnson, WASHINGTON MERRY Recent Strikes Disputes Can By DREW PEARSON Washington The nation will be months recovering from the effects of the coal and steel strikes, but the disputes demon strated one healthy fact: American industry and labor have "grown up" In their labor relations. The strikes were attended by almost no violence. It hasn't been many years since violence and bloodshed were the rule in major strikes. As recently as May 1937, Chi cago police pur sued and shot down steel un- ion pickets, kill- lit us i. v in stantly and fa- Drew Pearion tally injuring six others in the May-day massacre at Republic Steel. However, e x c e p t for a few minor outbreaks in coal-mining areas, both management and la- uui ici:ciiLiy uciiiuiiaiidLcu nidi. the American spirit of fair play can be made to work in labor disputes. Much credit belongs to CIO esident Phil Murray and his Prpsiripnt steel workers for peaceful, self- policed picket lines; also tp cer- tain omnlnvors nnljihlv iho Joncs and Laughlin Steel com- pany. aj' i n it ,J?Z1Z and Lauehlin. saw to it that un- ma j ion pickets at his plants got free tary. Annual Report of the Chief hot coffee and doughnuts almost ot Naval Operations to the Sec every night. Moreell also order- retary of the Navy." Neverthe ed that huts, equipped with less, that was the first Secreta electric heaters, be built for the ry Matthews had seen of it. pickets and even installed a telephone in a hut at the Ali- LUSTRON BUBBLE quippa, Pennsylvania, plant so the strikers could communicate with union headquarters, Moreell also made a practice. whenever possible, of personally visitine the nicket lines for a Sfendlv chat .There was nothing patronizing about it. The saltv, likable former sea dog respect- ed the position of the strikers as much as they respected his. J c There were some bright mo- ments, too, in the gruelling 52- day coal strike. In the past, most company stores shut off credit during strikes.. However, this year practically all the big coal companies continued credit dur- ing the long strike. In the south, several operators provided hot meals for miners' children when they heard the youngsters were going to school without break- fast All in nil it m.i. far nrir from the hot tempers and tear gas of a decade ago. SWEDISH HOSPITALITY Those insulting digs at Swed ish hospitality by junketing Se nator Elmer Thomas of Oklaho ma contrasted with the story of another senate subcommittee which visited Sweden at about the same time. -, While Senator Thomas charg ed that the Swedes snubbed him, the subcommittee on hous ing led by able Senator John Sparkman of Alabama, returned with glowing accounts of Swed ish hospitality. The Sparkman subcommittee included Allen Frear of Delaware, Ralph Flan- ders of Vermont and John Brick- er of Ohio. December. The simple truth is that by Bricker proved himself a real Dr. Schindler Is chief physician of the Monroe, Wis., clinic, halftime the Browns would have ambassador of good will in a His article is condensed from a torn the Notre Dame line to speech at the Stockholm City talk on the University of Wis- you like it, you will escape splinters and smothered its back hall, lauding Sweden on its ef- consin radio station. " work tension one of the prime s0 often they would have a feel- ficient housing program and the Fifty per cent of all people causes of psychosomatic illness, ing they were playing in Eider cooperation shown him and his going to doctors in the U. S to- Have a hobby and in the down quiIls colleagues. The white-thatched day are victims of this one dis- midst of the day's hustle and And meanwhile, Cleveland Ohioan injected some American ease, the doctor states. Persons bustle, relax for a moment to wo"ld have passed or linebuck goodhumor into the proceedings , of any age or any walk of life think about It. Say the cheer- ed the dazed Ramblers silly, by denying that Senator Frear can contract it, and it is a high- fI thing, not the mean one. ... ware demdid call h m expensive disease to diagnose Make lt . point to te Yes Notre Dame is mighty- Dod and treat - wife she looks pretty even if but lt would be mihty foolish , , . . .... Psychosomatic illness is pro- it isn't true. ever to trot out on a gridiron Bricker later got a Dig hand j.j f , ut o with a- oro team liko tht. rio,r. in Rotterdam when he remark- ?T. . he had a special reason llni hr.e,H V v folks came from Hoi- for "feeling m- n1l-B mma Ion TJnl- Unfortunately, however, this .. . .. ' good will didn t cop the same headlines as the sensational Thomas technique of how not to win friends abroad. NOTE When the s e n a t e group left Rotterdam, the city chimes played "Yankee Doo- die." Alabama's Sparkman would have preferred Dixie, but Miomnil aa nloaenil n Vila nnrlh. em colleagues. up muscles wnnout Knowing it. There was only one thing The tightened muscles squeeze white-haired Senator Bricker, various nerves, producing se aged 56, wanted to forget about vere headaches, oains in the re Sweden a certain cigarette gion of the heart, stomach and girl in Stockholm. elsewhere. After dinner one night, the About a third of all skin girl stopped at the table where diseases treated by dermatolo Bricker and four senate collea- gjsts are produced by blood ves gues were seated. seis in the skin reacting to "1 11 buy a cigar for my fa- anxiety or worry. mer, announceo. o-year-oia Democrat Allen Frear of Dela- ic, ,.UUU...B mwaiu vrJ.u fl Y vaX"1 ' father?" Bricker asked the girl. L01:. lady, without hesitating a mom ent NAVY FLOUTS JOHNSON - The last official document, sign ed bv outcoinir Admiral DenfelH. To avoid psychosomatic ill- is a final slap at Secretary of Defense Johnson.- 4 1- ,V. 1 . w , 1 At la mic annual acuuiv Ul IIIB chief of naval operations to the secretary of the navy, just off the press. And by releasing it. the navy violated the spirit of - GO - ROUND Proved Labor Be Dignified Johnson's order against separate annual reports by the three ser vices. Last June the navy objected to the order on the ground that congress was entitled to a sepa rate report from each service, but the secretary of defense, af ter considering all arguments, stuck to his guns. He issued his order on August' 1 in a private memo to the army, navy and air force. "In the light of all the circum- stances," Johnson wrote, "I have decided that there should be one annual report for the national miHtary establishment." Despite this, the navy defied Johnson's order, and issued its biuium icyuii anyway. ineoreticaiiy, order'bylddresslng Jonnsons the report to the secretary nf navy. But when a represen- 1atlYe ot thls col"n took a - into Secretary of the Navy Matthews for comment, he was "HUUerSasiea. "What's this?" he asked. "I haven't seen that. Here, let me. look at it" Thl rLr ..D. port on Your. Navy. Mr. Secre The Lustron bubble, is about to explode. .. K ike. a worth- u'CtV" l" imve me " ' """""H snortage overnignt by m " Pacing prefabricated homes' nat.urnet! int0 a ni8ht- mare. Millions in RFC loans "ave Deen Poured into Lustron, but only a trickle ot ready-made "-. . . U . come out. Now congress has turneo on lhe heat and Lustron is begin- ninS to tPPle- First P" out will be Tru- man's cousin, Merl Young, for- mer RFC examiner, whose wife also one of President Tru- man's private secretaries. In spite of these ties, Young hasn't begged for favors for Lustron, has kept out of the lobbying end of the business. He is handing in his resignation effective De cember 1. (Copymnt i. Let 'er Buck, Buck' Newberry, Mich., Nov. 22 (U.R) Herman Smith turned cowboy when his single rifle shot, failed to down an eight point buck. Smith jumped on. the wounded animal's back, bulldogged It to the ground, and finished off his came with a hunting knife. . Worries, Troubles of Daily Life Held Cause of "Psychosomatic illness, one of tinman floch is hoiV tn is ae together," says Dr. John A. Schindler In The Reader's Dieest for pus ne'w growthi but rus or a new growth, but by the wo.fis tb, of daily living. And it is not a .. ...... . Just thinl!'.he is si'k"11The naine nf thl inmmnn lllnnae ' afe as sV"e a? !bose of any ln,er- ana mougn iney are Das- ,ta"' ""miiunai "inr eucti is Physical as acut finger, Most disagreeable emotions produce muscle tightness. Dr. Schindler says. T vm. nra anam, amn . bcm or worried, you are tightening Each time certain individuals become upset or irritated, serum I. a-l,lallv ,miPP7(.rf thrnnirh thA wal1 0 the bl00d vessel and Into ,,, . P-nd P skin su. face where it becomes scaly and itchy, and the patient has a neurodermatitis. ness. cultivate cheerfulness in your attitude toward life and vui fnlln. man Tr Cnhlnillaw ...wi, " u..ii.wi;k urges. Don't analyze your feelings all the time, looking for trouble. Learn to like your work, If BY GUILD Wizard of odds WHEN A CUILD DIES FROM POISONING ITS ALMOST 3 TO 1 THE: CAUSE IS LYE KEROSENE IS SECOND BIGGEST K1LLEP. bgs I POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Professional Football Separates TUa Upn Frfim I IYICII I IUIII iNew IOrK lf of the toP professional football teams? That has been a favorite topic this season with a number of pigskin historians of the sports pages. impressed by the record'of 36 games without a loss rung up by the Ramb lers, a numtapr opined that the fighting Irish could beat manv nlnv fnr - navl teams. And some even have crawled clear out on the limh rT TJ " ' , J 't " ore the best pro elevens. 1 am n0 naer oi tanned porn "" " Frank Leahy s boys in green car, tnhm (hn riAiralanri Rrnumc I'll - """" y: b? 8lad to eat without benefit ? gravy the football they do " lth;' An,d that.ls one prop.0.- sltl0n 1 ?n t muid ending with a preposition. ... Ino su1 s I wsteW Notre Dame tar North Carolina s Tarheels, 42 to 6, and Cleveland Browns retain the leadership of tne Ail-American conference by blanking the New York Yankees 31 to 0. , xiiey were games uiai Demon- strated the best in amateur foot- ball and the best in professional Half of Illness a thousand different ailments this nnmmnn si f K a nthai QQQ nn. " dn. , er Droblem DeeMn hn t ft iheiTuft tWnklnt rl Tt th6n qU" thinkmg about Dnvll lUlAL Bal Boris TYPEWRITERS! 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Frank Leahy can employ the discipline of the old college try if his boys don't play their hearts out, they're yanked. But coach Paul Brown of Cleveland, just as much a perfectionist as Leahyi has the added discipiina . , ... . oi tne aonar. wis men Know 11 they don.t win tney wont ea1 next yearat least not with tn8 Browns. His team doesn,t me dj most things well. It does every, ,hj we There . speclalsi for ey j u r, And rj M . , v , " . asy to foretell what i-i" ,..c ever took on the Browns. The Ramblers were held to a one- luutiiuyvvu lie tu uie nan uy a fast - charging North Carolina line that mussed up the South Bend backfield. But in the sec ond half the Notre Dame reserve power wore down the Tarheel forward wall. It wasn't until then that Quarterback Bobby Williams could get his passes clicking. Against Cleveland, Notre Dame would find the situation Dame would fin No amateur no matter how strong or talented, could stand up against the Browns. Their forward wall features heftles like Forrest Grigg, a 280-pound tackle about as impregnable as an elePhant. land Browns. For professional lana Browns- ror professional footbaI1 "cPBratea the men fron boys, and there is no way fnr tha k.e u. for the boys to bridge the gap. and take an option to buy! . . HOTEL" Ph 7Rf.01 1 " ' i rt