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Popular People
Salem, Oregon, Friday, December 2, 1949
Deficit Spending Increasing
The report of the treasury department for the first 21
week3 ending November 30 of the fiscal year show that the
federal government is spending far beyond its income and
setting peacetime records for disposing of public funds.
The spending record was $16.4 billion, more than $3 billion
greater than the cost of government during the same
period a year ago. The income for the two years were
not far apart but spending is far greater.
Commenting on a deficit for the year which President
Truman estimates will be at least $5.5 billion, Senator
Robert A. Taft of Ohio, said if the proposed expenditures
asked by the executive for the "hand out state" were en
acted, $20 million a year would be added to government
deficits. Taft continued:
"The proo.em before us, emphasizes the idocy of adopting
the so-called Fair Deal program. Socialized medicine would
cost more than $6,000,000,000 a year and other features of the
handout state would add more billions. The Brannan farm
plan in full blossom might cost another $6,000,000,000 and uni
versal military training would cost $4,000,000,000."
Taft urged economies of $7,000,000,000 annually in 1952
by ending foreign aid and $2,000,000,000 to $3,000,000,000
each year by effecting the Hoover commission reorganiza
tion plans "exactly as recommended." The original Mar
shall plan schedule called for stopping all foreign aid in
1952.
Secretary Snyder called before the senate-house eco
nomic sub-committee to ascertain whether government
fiscal, monetary and credit policies contribute to economic
stability, in view of the attacks being made on deficit
spending, blamed the 1948 tax cut for the shortage but
made no suggestions beyond favoring reduction of gov
ernment spending "in every possible way" and "maintain
ing adequate tax rates" to keep receipts and outlays in
balance. He added :
"It seems to me, however, that in times as prosperous as these
we should have a balanced budget. National income today is
close to the highest level in our history, and, by every standard
of sound government finance, the time to have a balanced
budget is now. In the past three years I have restated the
urgent need for an excess of receipts over expenditures on many
occasions notably when the congress was considering tax-reduction
measures in 1947 and 1948."
The present debt, Snyder told the committee, carries
an interest charge amounting to $5,700,000,000 a year. It
accounts for more than 13 percent of all budget spending
expected this year.
At a previous hearing Snyder said that the nation's eco
nomical welfare "should be the guiding principle in deter
mining for any given period whether the federal budget
should be balanced," Which, of course, is an alibi for the
hand-out state deficit spending.
McNary Field's Prospects
The threat of the Civil Aeronautics Board to discontinue
United Air Lines service for Salem hasn't hurt prospects
for McNary field.
While first indications were that United wouldn't help
the city fight to keep the Mainliner service here, United
now has indicated by its recent actions that it intends to
stay. Repeated conferences by officials of the airline with
the city over plans for the airport administration building
certainly show an interest. In fact, United is talking about
space in the building far greater than in their present quar
ters on the east side of the field.
What the CAB will decide following its February hear
ing on the Salem commercial aviation picture is any
body's guess. However, indications are that the threat to
United's position has strengthened, rather than weakened,
the airline's tie with the city.
Salem's position has continued to be that it wants ade
quate airline service for McNary field. After study, it was
felt that West Coast Airlines, which the CAB suggest
ed substituting for United, could not serve Salem ade
quately by itself. Salem felt United could do a better
job because of far greater equipment, especially in han
dling air freight. But there never was any objection to
having West Coast supplement United here.
The city has also indicated that it wants to go ahead
with facilities to improve air transport here. Pushing of
the new administration building is an example. The Civil
Aeronautics Administration has cooperated also by its re
cent decision not to curtail control tower operations on
the field. Instead of cutting to 16 hours a day as planned,
the CAA will continue to run the tower 24 hours a day.
If the city keeps up its determination to make McNary
field second to none in the nation for a city of Salem's
size, the effort might well be rewarded with success.
Jury Acquits Man of Murder,
Hands Wife $100 for New Life
New Orleans, Dec. 2 (VP) A jury acquitting a man of a
murder charge here has given his wife $100 so they can
"start life over."
The trial judge, Frank T. Echezabal, says the jury's action
Is "noble and unusual" and "It will go down In the annals of
criminal court as most charitable. "
Acquitted last night was Donald Eastcrwood, who was
tried on a charge of fatally stabbing a fellow filling station
operator.
Eastcrwood's wife testified he was at home at the time
Samuel Jones was killed last March.
Sickness and Marriage Mix
Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 2 (U.R) Forty years ago Dr. Mar
shall Wingfield, Congregational pastor here, introduced a
young couple in Carlsbad, N. M., while recuperating from
pneumonia there.
A short time later he performed the marriage ceremony
for them and they became Mr. and Mrs. George M. Bern.
In 1940 he went back to visit and found the Bern fam
ily had grown considerably. One of the family's eight
children was 14-year-old Edythe, who was handicapped by
a foot deformity.
Dr. Wingfield sent young Edythe to the Shrine hospital
In St. Louis to undergo operations, which proved successful.
At the hospital she met Luther Acers, a young medical
student..
Today Dr. Wingfield will unite Edythe, now a healthy
23-year-old piano teacher and Dr. Acres, her hospital sweet
heart, in marriage.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
All Heroes Are Not
On the Football Field
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Young hero of the nation's capital last week was
football star Leo Speros, who led Wilson high school to a one
point victory in the championship high school play-off for the
District of Columbia. Leo, who waded down a snowy field to
score touchdown after touchdown, was the toast of the capital's
sports world.
Unsung and
unheralded was
another hero in
the Speros fam
ily his father.
Operator of
restaurant,,
Speros senior
quietly gave
job to the sec
retary of Con
gressman Par
nell Thomas
when she was indicted on a tech
nical charge of arranging for sal
ary kickbacks.
Miss Helen Campbell finally
decided that her boss, the chair
man of the un-American com-
BY GUILD
Wizard of Odds
Drew Pearson
JOHN L. ROARS
John L. Lewis directed almost
three hours of oratory at Feder
al Conciliator Cy Ching and
George Love, president of the
Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal
company, during their secret
meeting at Winchester, Va.
Most of Lewis's oratory was
inspired by Love's objection to
the "willing and able" clause in
a new mine contract. This clause
permits coal miners to stage a
full or partial strike if Lewis
deems they are not willing and
able to work.
Love also demanded a new
method of administering the
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A Matter of Accent
By DON UPJOHN
Tom Bowden, ferryman on the Wheatland ferry, we note in the
news, came into town yesterday and ,-sked Ed Rogers, county
commissioner, to have an electric winch installed on the ferry
to operate the steering gear. He said the water .was so high
and the stream so swift, it was past the power of a human to
turn the steer
ing wheel and
only a winch
would help out.
This becomes
quite intriguing
when one real
izes that County
C o m m issioner
Ed Rogers is
from Oklahoma
and that, as we
once before
pointed out in
istered conscientious objector to
military service, the tart-tongued
socialist playwright wrote: "A
country that engages in war,
rightly or wrongly, is like a
ship that has struck a breaker
and is leaking. The order must
be 'All hands to the pumps,'
no matter how faulty or wicked
the navigators may have been.
. . . "Pacifists should do all they
can to prevent war, but if it
nevertheless breaks out, it is too
mittee was being un-American miners pensions - and - welfare
himself in requiring alleged fund: but a11 he Sot from Lewis
members df his office staff to was a tongue-lashing,
pay their salaries back to him, "Nothing was served by your
and reported this to the justice coming down here," roared the
department. mine union chief. "I know the
The justice department, in or- banker interests who sent you.
der to show a conspiracy, had to You're nothing but an errand
indict not only the congress- by for tnese financial lords who
man who ordered the kickbacks, wish to enslave the men who toil
but his secretary who carried underground.
out his orders. "Well
Out of a job, 64 years old and an.d teI1 yur mastery that they
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
It's Better to Be Homely
When Young Than Later
By HAL BOYLE
New York P) The first day I went to junior high school
just 25 years ago there was a pretty girl sitting in front of me
sir, you can go back jn English class.
She was blonde, in a shaggy way, and had cupid bow lips and
a little brown freckle here and there. I thought to myself, "Boy,
this here column, when he re- late to do anything but fight."
fers to a winch he calls it a
wench. This, it seems, is an old Anyway, Harry Never Cusses
Oklahoma custom and it may (Independence Enterprise)
be just possible when Tom took
up with Ed the matter of hav- u Many golfers will feel much
ing a winch installed on the better about their golf game aft-
ferry he knew all about Ed's er reading the following: It is
little way of pronouncing same. Jmm-ed that the tragedy befell
Anyway, Ed is investigating and H- V. Collins during a golf game
he s going to find out whether n T,ha"ksgivlnS day. November
a "wench" will do all that Tom 24. 1949- He took seven shots
claims for same. It may be. on ne Breen He was. nole hln
Some of 'em are pretty potent. href n,the Par. Uv on, the
. . 18th at Salem. His first long
It's Everybody Next Time putt was short, his second too
Glasgow, Scotland VP) George far, his third skidded by the
Bernard Shaw says that if war hole, and his fourth rimmed it.
comes, pacifists must "shoot or He leaned over to tap it in, back
be s h o t." Answering a staff handed, and rimmed the cup, the
member of the Forward, Glas- ball striking his foot and costing
gow labor weekly, who asked him another stroke. He was
how to get established as a reg- down in 10.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Peace Gets Jolt From Call
Of Russia to Unseat Tito
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
(UP Foreign Affairs Analyst!
World peace has received another jolt as the result of the
Soviet cominform's call to communists in all countries to join in
a wholesale effort to unseat rebellious Marshal Tito of Yugo
slavia. The cominform successor to the Comintern, or general staff for
world revolu
1 1 o n hasn't
disclosed details
of its program.
However, f o r
eign diplomatic
quarters in New
York say they
have received
reports that an
anti-Tito coup
is planned for
somct 1 m e be
tween Christ
mas and Easter.
This scheme is said to call for
a revolt in Yugoslavia. That
under indictment as a reward might as well sign up now. Ev-
for her patriotism, Miss Camp- ery aay yu delay, it will cost
Lindwood Grammar school had
turned me down with, "I'd love
to, Harold, but really you're too
small for me."
But no one before had ever
told me I was homely. I went
righth home from junior high
right home from junior high
ing at the bathroom mirror.
That blonde was right! No
doubt of it.
No nose needed to spread
that wiHp incr tn fill nno naiy
"I wonder what you looked of lungs with air Were tnose
really ears or coat hangers?
"If you or the people who you." That hair or was it moss? Why
sent you here think I will com- I waited until the teacher did anyone need a mouth that
promise on these matters, you looked the other way, and then big unless he wanted to swallow
are badly fooled." whispered into the fair ear be- crackerjack boxes?
NOTE Presidential Assist- loie me- I came out of that bathroom
been particularly active one way ant John R. Steelman, who ar- "I never was kicked by a a desperate man. Women were
or the other regarding the real ranged the secret meeting in mule." out of my life forever. I was
She turned around and gave going to stay a bachelor and
me that heartbreak smile again, win all the merit badges in
and whispered: the boy scout book. What else
"Oh, it was a horse then?" could a love-frustrated fellow
do at 13?
bell finally got employment at yu more. What we are asking ' h, .
the Silver Fox restaurant, where for now is only the beginning of tamly w'asted a
dim speros, a Denever in clean - t""f,'" j mi me tuat jot Qj time get
government, gave her employ- miners their just due." ting through
ment. Lewis didn't specify what the grammar
Note Miss Campbell was lat- "Program' would be; nor would school."
er exonerated when the govern- he sPe11 out his current demands, About half-
ment dismissed all charges excePt retention of the "willing w a y through
against her. Another unsung f "a aul "ause ana no cnanges the lesson, my
hero is Miss Campbell's attor- In Pensions-ana-weltare admin- dream girl turn
ney, John R. Fitzpatrick, who istration. Hitherto Lewis has ed around, grin
defended her without remunera- nominated the spending of funds ned at me and
from the welfare fund. whispered:
Regarding the latter issues, he
thundered: like before the
tion or reward.
CLERGY AND LOBBYISTS
It looks as if the real estate
lobby has now succeeded in en
listing the clergymen of the na
tion as their opponents.
Hitherto, the clergy have not
estate lobby. But the other day, Winchester, wasn't there.
in Chicago, Kendall Cady, head
of the institute of real estate MERRY-GO-ROUND
management, told his fellow The American embassy in
realtors to get their clergymen Moscow reports that Premier
to bring pressure on congress Stalin is vacationing in the
against rent control. lhe in- Crimea, with Molotov now run-
For a moment I didn't under
stand what she meant. And
For the next ten years I hated
sinuation was that the clergy nine Russia Stalin went in hi then I blushed clear down to 'hat face that looked out at me
could be used. favorite Black Sea resort, after my new S2. 95 tennis shoes. What from the mirror. The fact that
Reactions from leading clergy- doctors' repeated warnings. this darling doll was trying to Abraham Lincoln and Socrates
men was prompt and unanimous Undersecretary of National tel1 me was that my face LOOK- must have had the same trouble
and from all religions. Typi- Defense Steve Early expects to ED like il had taken hoof mass- was n0 consolation at all.
cal reply was that of Monsignor resign in May. age. But at 23 I made an astonish-
John O'Grady of Washington, Congress is losing a topnotch Tris wasn't the first time I ing discovery I was still pretty
who said: member with the impending re- had been disappointed in love, ugly, but I wasn't getting any
"I haven't seen any minister tirement of Georgia's Represen- nly three months before, the worse. My ears hadn't grown
in n ,.,) r ,,-. t tative Stenhen Pace 8rl I had wanted to take to an inch.
would be willing to join Mr.
Cady against rent control. The
clergy have the interest of the
people at heart."
(Copyright 1949)
our graduating exercises at the
Impossible' Canada Oil Boom
Holds Promise of Bright Future
espionage and anti - communist
propaganda.
In short, Russia claims that
Tito is trying to destroy the
Soviet conception and substitute
his brand new brand of nation
alist communism in the satellite
countries.
Whether the two-fisted mar
shal has any such sweeping proj
ect in mind remains to be seen.
He certainly is bent on establish
ing his own brand of commu
nism in his own country.
And it is true that Tito com
munism is trvinc fn raico its
would be followed up by a call hcad in som; of the
Editor's Note: Canada is giong through an oilboom which
only a few years ago would have been laughed off as
Impossible, The following dispatch tells of the oil boom's
possibilities.
In the years since then I have
learned the fine consolation that
time brings to the homely. There
is only one way for them to
grow and that is better. On
the other hand, those who are
beautiful or handsome when
young can only fade with age.
And it frets them into melan
choly. Often I used to wonder what
ever induced my lovely wife to
marry such a plain thing as her
OeWItt MaekcmU
from the leaders of the rebellion
for help from orthodox commu
nists in neighboring Hungary
and Romania.
The crossing of guerilla troops
from a foreign country into Yu
goslavia obviously would create
a terribly explosive situation.
British Minister of Slate Hec
tor McNeil gave the cominform
countries, among them being Po
land, Czechoslovakia and Hun
gary. Moscow has reason to worry.
While the cominform hasn't
indicated how it expects to un
horse Tito, there may be a hint
in the report by the Moscow
newspaper Pravda that there are
substantial groups of anti-Ti-
move a noi s.iui m u.e uniitu toist Yugoslavs in all countries
Nations assembly Wednesday of Eastern Europe working for
the first time, by the way, the his overthrow. Pravda also savs
subject has been brought up in tnese groupSi which are well jj.
that body. nanced, have colls in every vil-
He was discussing the recent lage and institution in Yugo-
aoviei pt'Hce-speecnes turn re- slnvia
Meantime, responsible non
Yugoslav source in Belgrade
state that Russia has increased
the number of Soviet military
men in neighboring Albania.
The number of Soviet troops in
Albania isn't known, but in
formed sources make the guess
Red "lat t'ie 'ota' may he between
i,uuu una io.uuu. Reports say
the latest arrivals in Albania
appear to include officers skill
ed in guerrilla warfare.
So the Soviet bloc of Eastern
Europe is divided against itself
in spots. Moscow is up against
that old cry of self-determina-
marked that the cominform at
tack was "most remarkable" for
a peace campaign, adding:
"It is more like a war mani
festo than a peace manifesto."
Be that as it may, Moscow's
anxiety over Tiloism is under
standable. It is a great threat
against orthodox communism
which provides that all
countries surrender their sover
eignty to Moscow.
Tito, of course, while subscrib
ing to Marxian communism, is
a red-hot nationalist who refuses
to surrender Yugoslavia's sover
eignty to anybody.
NO GERMAN ARMY
While Secretary of Defense
Louis Johnson was emphatically
telling Europe that the United
States would not rearm Ger
many, Field Marshal Montgom
ery, the British war hero, was By GEORGE A. DOBIE
Mu.cn.y wuuruii in nauiuiBuui Erimnnfnn. Alfa. Der 2 (U.B Canada whlph nnur Imnnrt. hnshanrt rinrl rla,, T f., .,
for German rearmament. almost 80 per cent of its oil, may become self-sufficient in oil We were looking through her
In backstage conversations within four or five years, well-qualified reports indicated to- family album, and there was a
with U.S. military leaders, Mont- day. picture of her as a child with
gomery argued that Russia has Government and industry officials close to Alberta's record- her pet, Major, a fine old bull
already organized and indoctrin- shattering oil hunt said the time : dog.
ated a Gemany army in Prussia depended upon whether future the west and the pre-Cambrian "Do you ever get lonesome for
of 360,000 ex-enemy soldiers, searches for oil continue as sue- shield that slices Manitoba. In Major?" I asked
They have orders, he said, to cessfully as current operations, between was the broad prairie ! '
take over all Germany the min- They said that from a position land where there were possibili- , a"y more prances said,
ute the Western Allies pull out of self-sufficiency, this country ties of striking oil. looKing at me fondly,
of West Germany. Therefore, he conceivably could develop into According to Alberta's mines All along such is the loyalty
maintained that an opposing an oil exporter. and minerals ' minister O M of wives she has stoutly in
German army must be built up ... Tanner, the area was as bi'g as ?lsted, I'm,notT re,ally exactly
in the West. The officials, commenting on the states of Texas, Oklahoma, homely. When I asked her what
Montgomery made this argu- the oil hunt that has gripped Kansas, California and Louisi- "J?5',.5?6, searched through
ment to Chief of Staff Omar Alberta and Saskatchewan, said ana combined. the English language for an ad
Bradley among others. But a bright future for a Canadian Tanner said he was confident Jective ana sam:
Bradley, arriving in Germany, oil industry is virtually assured that by 1951 Alberta would be "Well, you're the. er. .er. .
backed up Secretary Johnson since most of the big American able to produce about half of weI1' the rugged type."
that Germany would not he re- oil companies and the full force the present 300,000 barrels that Anyway it's better to be
armed. of the Canadian industry are are required each day in Can- homely young, realize it young,
Perhaps the biggest reason taking part in the search. ada. and go on to other things,
for Johnson's stand boils down They said it was a struggle to
to this: West German leaders uncover some of the abundant opcM criQIIAA
have made it clear they will mineral wealth of an area that vrtm rftum
not fight in the next war. for many years was dubbed "the . , , , .
They figure that in any clash unexploited west. JODS TOf JODleSS in UregOII
oexween rtussia ana me umtea otrinua mc mi usb; an
.1 . . 1 i.nnnl hnMav tUa Un.th
rhTnTtoliinX -ttlnl Uo Andean S Poieum J'
If they fought, Germany would reserves, a major consideration
be demolished again. If they ir economic prosperity
1v ponporniH in hir wolfaro
a position to recapture the lead- n war- A-r-nrHin n riroonn' nnm. -rt ,hinn in . ....j
crship Of Europe after the War. nlSnrv apt then, should not ho that has novpr hoon hrnlron Thi.
me nunt reacnea recora-snai- , --, :. r r ; . ,
tion among subject nations. It's
The cominform charges that just a further indication that
the Yugoslav capital of Belgrade the days of imperialism are
has become the nerve center of numbered,
a country - revolutionary move- Heaven forbid that another
ment against Red Countries, as world war should grow out of
well as a center of American this issue.
To the Editor: I read with great interest the Forum article
is typical of hundreds of others here in Oregon. I know we can't
write a prescription to end business cycles or guarantee every
.... man a ih Hut wo fan rtemnnetrgta tn than, tlinl ,..n nn ... .Sr,..
didn't fight, they might be in peacetime and economic might , ' ..,1 " " " """"
pture the lead--after
the war.
in Oriet, me UermanS Will De . -- mnln, n ho stato na- timp has r.nmo fnr n.n. stato'
glad to have American arms if ring proportions in Aioena, ' '' management to make eood on
we want to send them over hut where it started m February, rou over 03 years 01 age, ex- management to mane good on
m Showdown hose arms 1947, with discovery of the now cept those known or described some of their eloquen assertions
will not be used to helo us W Leduc field southwest of a "ra" persons," the men and of social responsibility. Until
win not be used to help us. women who are absolutely in- they view these jobless as their
It now is spilling into Al- dispensable because nowhere in personal problem, and every
JUST PLAIN MONTY berta's eastern neighbor, social- Oregon can be found persons weakness in our unemployment
The girls in General Bradley's jst Saskatchewan, where provin- who can replace them. It is hard system as their personal respon-
office were all aflutter over the ciai regulations were revised as t believe that there are so many sibility the tenure and future of
visit of Britain's war hero, Field an encouragement to the indus- n state service who are so these leaders are in jeopardy.
Marshal Viscount Sir Archibald try. "specialized" they can not be jeopardy.
Montgomery, but couldn't agree There also are signs that oil replaced. If they would make the re-
whether to address him as "Field will become an important con- I heard a man say the other tirement act what it was meant
Marshal" or "Viscount.' sideration in British Columbia, day. and by the way he is a to be and convince the jobless
Finally Mary Pitcairn, Brad- to the west, particularly in the state employee, that our system by doing something about it
ley's personal secretary, put the Peace river area on the coast of free enterprise has failed, that they are interested In jobs
question up to the general him- province's northeastern corner, all these unemployed are just for them as they arc, they will
Kplf hjinof ir iai-ios nt liat cn.c(am Tlilf nnlu hnva hnHnl lunrbam
"What do you call Monlgom- Geologists knew there was a That statement does not make It will make more loyal Amerl-
ery?' she asked. sedimentary basin covering good sense . . . cans.
"I call him Monty," replied some 800,000 square miles be- In 1932 a political party neg- HENRY HOUGH
Bradley, laconically. tween the Rocky mountains on lected the cries of the unemploy- Route 1, Salem