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4 Salem, Oregon, Saturday, December 3, 1949
Easing Racial Bans
Solicitor General Philip B. Perlman, with the backing
of President Truman, has announced a new government
move to curb racial and religious discrimination in future
housing projects, which will be denied federal aid if they
write clauses against tenants of any color or creed. This
is of course another bureaucratic usurpation of legislative
power, for there is no law to this effect passed by congress.
As announced, the new government policy affects FHA
financing guarantees for housing projects or one unit
dwellings; GI loans for veterans' housing; slum clearance
projects and land transactions by public agencies.
The new policy is for purely political effect, for it means
little real change in present bans against minorities, cannot
be retroactive or prohibitive against unwritten restric
tions, and no date has been set for it to become effective.
It adds little to the administration's drive for existing bans
against minorities.
The FHA Hoes not grant loans to buyers or builders. It in
sures bankers against loss on such loans, providing certain con
ditions are met in the construction and iinancing ot the dwell
igs. Few projects would be affected. Only about a third of
new home construction has been financed under FHA guaran
tees. Mr. Truman is going ahead with his plans to force his
civil rights bill in congress, which includes a federal anti
lynching law, repeal of the poll tax law as a voting require
ment and other bills designed to ban discrimination against
Negroes and other minority groups.
The rencwpl of this program will result in solid south
ern opposition and filibusters that will tie-up and delay
more vital legislation and all to win the northern Negro
vote in election.
Meanwhile the status of the Negro is gradually improv
ing, especially in the south where racial prejudice, a hang
over from slavery, still exists, but a more enlightened
policy is being followed than ever before. The Negro is
better treated, better educated and looked after than ever
before. It is really a state and local, not a national prob
lem. There are few lynchings nowadays, and Negro merit
is nationally recognized.
Only yesterday, William M. Hastie, Negro, former gov
ernor of the Virgin Islands, was sworn in as the first Negro
judge of a United States circuit court of appeals next to
the supreme court the highest judicial body in the nation.
Hastie has a distinguished record, has served as federal dis
trict judge, is a Phi Beta Kappa and a graduate of Amherst and
Harvard. From 1930-37 he was a member of the faculty of
Howard university and became dean of its school of law in
1939. From 1933 to 1937 he was assistant solicitor of the in
terior department. He was a civilian aide to the secretary of
war from 1940-42.
At the November election Allegheny county, Pa. (Pitts
burgh) elected its first Negro judge by a 70,000 vote ma
jority. He is Homer S. Brown, veteran democratic state
legislator, who won election to common pleas court. He is
a native of Huntington, VV. Va., graduate of Virginia Union
university and the University of Pittsburgh.
Another Negro who has won fame as a diplomat is Ralph
J. Bunche, a graduate of the University of California and
Harvard, an educator of note, who has served the nation
in many official capacities abroad and at home, as well as
the United Nations, who ended the war in Palestine by
his tactful diplomacy.
The Negro has won acclaim in science, law, medicine,
stage, opera and other professions, all which is testimony
that the Negro is coming into his own in a democracy that
recognizes merit. He is patiently solving his own prob
lems and easing racial bans.
Sounding Like a Candidate for President
The more General Eisenhower talks the more he puts
himself in the unintended position of a top national poli
tical leader. Despite protests of no presidential aspira
tions, Eisenhower nevertheless may well find himself
swept into political leadership by a popular swell of opposi
tion to the Truman program of statism and bankruptcy.
The latest bits of the Eisenhower program were revealed
in the past few weeks.
One was his deploring of "too great a pessimism and
gense of defeatism" on world affairs. The general who
inspired unity of allied forces in Europe warned that in an
atmosphere of defeatism and pessimism we cannot win
against the oroblems "that seem to defy solution." As "a
soldier who has borne the responsibility of winning great
fights," he declared that "optimism is one of the great
qualities to carry into the fight."
Another of his statements, picked up as a political straw
in the turbulent, current winds, referred to his outspoken
attack against "big" government. He endorsed the doc
trine of Thomas Jefferson that the best government is the
one which ,roverns the least. He hit at the "illusory thing
called security " In saying that too much emphasis is be
ing placed on personal security at the expense of individual
liberty, Eisenhower said the men under the many white
crosses "believed there was something more than merely,
assuring themselves that they weren't going to be hungry '
at the age of 67. They believed that man should carve his
own future for himself and his family, economically and
every other way."
In that latter sentence he put an American idea that has
been almost put in the discard by the present federal ad
ministration philosophers.
When Eisenhower makes such statements, he finds to
his "surprise" that they bring a great response. It is time
that he realize he is building himself up in the minds of
many Americans as a logical candidate for president in
1952. Whether he approves or not of such a response
from the general public that would consider him as such,
he nevertheless assumes the stature of a popular choice.
He finds himself in the unusual position of a leader who
feels he must make certain statements and observations
and yet, at the same time, says he doesn't want to run for
president.
His faith in free man was expressed in early June in his
first address as president of Columbia university. He at
tacked modern preachers of the paternalistic state in his
commencement address. Later he brought his ideas to
gether in a more definite political pattern, described by
him as "middle of the road."
For a man who is not interested in politics for himself,
Eisenhower talks with too much conviction of principles
which are taking a beating these days. A man with such
deep feeling and with such' a past record of leadership, can
not escape the call of the people of America. Those people,
floundering in the present mediocrity of the republican
party, are seeking desperately for a leader around whom
the forces in opposition to Truman might rally. The more
Eisenhower talks the more ho sounds like that man.
BY BECK
Parental Problems
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
BY GUILD
Appoint Negro Congressman Wizard of Odds
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HELPINS A FRIEND WITH HIS
NEWSPAPER ROUTE. HE WANTS
TO EARN EXTRA CHRISTMAS i
MONEY TO BUY US PRESENTS. ; ?
IT'S SO SWEET OF HIM. I
HAVENTTHE HEART TO
SCOLD HIM FOR NEQLECTINS
HIS CHORES... I'LL
JAKE CARE OF
THIS.
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Care Should Be Given the Soul
As Well as the Physical Body
BY REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
Retor. St Pftul'i EpweopM cbureD
A friend was telling me about the many living creatures .he
had seen in his travels about the world. So many of them, he said,
were hideous looking things.
He could see no good reason why they should exist at all In a
world which otherwise was so full of beautiful objects, whether
animate or inanimate.
He spoke of the lizards and us in the flesh of an eel, how
Gila monsters, the octopi, and different our manner' of living
the hyenas, and many other would have been. A study of the
such creatures. He couldn't un- life of an octopus, or a Gila
derstand why God included monster might really give us a
them among the innumerable new interest in living in the
living things in .
our world.
St. Paul, in
his Epistle to the
Corinthians, did
n't make the
mystery any
clearer when he
wrote, "God giv
eth it a body as
it hath pleased
him . . . All flesh
human body we have. It should
fill us with appreciation for the
physical house we live in.
For 70 or 80-odd years, the
body it pleased God to give us is
our faithful servant and our
home. We should make every ef
fort to keep it functioning prop
erly. It is the only physical body
we shall ever have. We should
take care of it.
To Vice Chairman of Demos
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Very quietly this week, a Negro was made vice
chairman of the party which once went to war over the issue of
slavery.
The Negro is Congressman William Dawson of Chicago, and the
man whose place he is taking as vice chairman of the demo
cratic national
committee
is boss Frank
Hague of Jersey
City.
The change
was engineered
b y democratic
national chair
man William
Boyle and has
a n interesting
background.
The vice- Drtw
chairmanship of the democratic
national committee long was
held by Mayor Ed Kelly of Chi
cago. Kelly, an active Roosevelt
man, made the position import
ant. After his retirement as may
or, the vice-chairmanship went
to boss Hague of New Jersey,
who last month suffered a crush
ing defeat.
At that time Hague announc
ed that he was ready to resign
as vice-chairman of the commit
tee, and Bill Boyle expressed the
hope privately that he would.
"I'd grab his resignation in a
minute," Boyle told friends.
This week Boyle acted.
William Dawson, long a de
mocratic member of congress
from Chicago, last January was
the first negro congressman to
become chairman of a congress
ional committee. As head of the
house expenditures committee
he has got along well with
broad - minded representatives
Hardy of Virginia, Lanham of
Georgia and Bonner of North
Carolina.
So chairman Boyle quietly el
evated him to the vice-chairmanship
of the democratic na
tional committee.
Therefore, Acheson and Bran
nan argue that it would be
cheaper just to give away the
surpluses. They are sure con
gress will think so too.
U. S. FOOD SURPLUSES
Brannan and Acheson had a
joint session at the White House
the other day at which they gave
the president the following
facts:
The department of agriculture
now has in its bins 236 million
pounds of dried skimmed milk,
80 million pounds of butter and
84 million pounds of dried eggs,
worth total of about 360 mil
lion dollars. But Europeans will
not eat the dried milk and eggs.
The wheat on hand, which
they will eat, is just enough to
supply regular customers and
keep a small reserve in case of
emergency. Corn isn't popular
in Europe and can't easily be
shipped abroad.
So far the only crops curtailed
in this country are tobacco, pea
nuts and potatoes. Peanuts are
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
300 Top Singers Musicians
Entertain Disabled Veterans
By HAL BOYLI
New York UP) Jean Tennyson runs one of the world's biggea
too expensive for basic food, and concert bureaus and is quite happy because it is losing money.
is not the same ,. Swl(,
flesh, but there
is one kind of flesh of men an- about the soul
other flesh of beasts, another of
fishes, and another of birds."
What can be said about the
physical body can also be said
potatoes can be shipped overseas
only when refrigeration condi
tions are right. The first ship
load, intended for Europe after
the war, had to be dumped in
the bay before it left port.
These were the arguments that
Acheson and Brannan took to
President Truman. He agreed
that first emphasis should be
placed on his "point four" pro
gram to help backward coun
tries help themselves. But he
didn't want to appear uncharit
able nor to throw cold water on
the food and agriculture organi
zation. So he promised to "work
wholeheartedly" with FAO in
planning better food distribu
tion, though he will not support
the food clearinghouse idea.
ICoprrltM 1049)
Some 300 top singers and musicians work for nothing on her
programs, arranged to entertain disabled ex-servicemen in 130
veterans hospitals across the country.
list of I
It pleased God to give us life.
This life is eternal. If it is im
portant to care for our bodies
which we discard in a compari
As we look at the queer crea- tively short timei it must in
tures in an aquarium, or the finitely more important to look
strange animals in a zoo, or the after tne welfare of our souls,
hideous living objects seen Andi if we thank God for giv.
through a microscope, how ing us a human structure rather
thankful we should be that it than lhat of some hideous mon-
apparently pleased God that we ster, we should go further and be
should have the physical form of srateful that God was pleased
Homo Sapiens. t0 give us the breath of ijfe at
Had it pleased God to clothe all and make us living souls.
Dog Obeys Master-Dies
Copenhagen, Denmark, Dee. 3 (U.B A dor obeyed his mas
ter's summons and jumped to death from the roof of a
three-story building yesterday.
The dog was on the roof of a factory building in Horsens,
Jutland. The master, not knowing where the dog was, whis
tled In the yard below.
The dog leaped and was killed instantly.
SIPS FOR SUPPER
The Perfect Squelch
By DON UPJOHN
At the banquet of sheriffs held last evening in connection
with the Oregon State' Sheriffs association some good natured
kidding and badinage were being passed back and forth, as must
be the case when a lot of sheriffs get together, and at one point
in the proceedings the sheriff of Hood River county happened
to be the par-
Waldron drove on the sidewalk
and through a vacant lot; the
car had no license plates; no reg
istration; no windshield; no muf
fler; no headlights; no tail light;
no horn; no emergency brake;
illegal exhaust pipes and doors
that were welded shut. Waldron
also lacked a driver's license.
Then they booked him yester
day on suspicion ot grand theft,
auto.
Even more interesting is the
political background behind
Dawson's appointment.
The Chicago district, which
sends him to congress used to be
republican. And during the Her
bert Hoover landslide in 1928, it
sent Oscar de Priest, negro re
publican, to congress the first
negro elected to that body in
many years.
Result was a hue and cry from
Washington society, including
many republicans, that Con- .. ucki-rice rrtiiiiiii
gressman de Priest should not MacKtNZIE b LOLUMN
be invited to the regular White
House reception which the pres
ident gives to all members of
congress.
President Hoover did not
take a forthright stand on the
matter, and although de Priest
was finally invited, the debate
hurt the GOP's standing with
the big-city negro populations.
Various other factors were
Involved, of course, such as
FDR's relief program, and Tru
man's civil rights program, but
ever since then, the republicans
have lost the negro vote.
Today, two negroes are mem
bers of congress Dawson from
Chicago and Adam Clayton
Powell of Harlem, N.Y. Dawson
is always invited to congression
al receptions, but Powell, whose
wife Truman dislikes, is not.
Her
artists include
Lily Pons, Mar
garet Truman,
Ezio Pinza, Ar
tur Rubenstein,
and Gladys
Swarthout.
"We started
out with strict
ly long - haired
p e r f o rmers,"
she said. "'But
now we have
is
nyson, an ex-Vanities star and
operatic soprano, was grateful
to the men who had fought. She
wanted to do something to show
her gratitude but what?
"I was told that musical ther
aphy was helpful to the 1,000,
000 veterans in hospitals," she
recalled, "so I decided that was
the field I could help In best."
With symphony conductor
Leo Stowkowski and a few oth
er friends, she orBanijpd tha
Benny Goodman, choral groups artists veterans hospital pro-
even a magician." grams in 1947. By the end of
Luce many anotner American
Hal Boyla
woman at war's end, Miss Ten-
Reform School for Nickel Holdup
Noblesville, Ind., Dec. 3 U.PJ Charles German, 29, Indian
apolis, was taken to the Indiana reformatory Friday to serve
a l-to-5-year term for stealing a nickel in a street holdup.
German Rearmament Still
Remains a Moot Question
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
(Ofi Foreign Affair Anftlrtt)
The allied policy of keeping Germany disarmed indefinitely
already seems to be heading into complications.
This column the other day called attention to the reiteration
in Europe by U. S. Defense Secretary Johnson and U. S. Chief
of Staff Bradley that America has no intention of rearming the
reich.
ticular t a r g et.
One sheriff aft
er another had
passed on some
good natured
raillery at Hood
River county
and the jovial
sheriff took it in
stride. When ho
figured the boys
were about
through with
their fun he arose and made just
one trifling remark. He admit
ted that maybe Hood River coun
ty had a few jibes coming to it
and was willing to take it. How
ever, he said he was particular-
r..-s i
GUARDING AUSTRIA'S ART
A guard of 115 men stands
watch over the rare Austrian
art collection on display at the
National Art gallery during the
daytime. Twenty more, plus a
squadron of military police,
stand watch on Saturdays and
Sundays. ''We tell them to re
main as unobtrusive as possible,
but to keep their eyes open,"
says the gallery's administrator,
Col. Harry McBride.
President Truman was so tak
en by the collection during a
private viewing that he remain-
I commented
that this creat
ed a strange sit
uation, since
Germany is be
ing made an in
tegral part of
the western Eu
ropean set-up
and must be
protected, and
added;
"Should an
other war develop
west and east Europe (which rearmed defensively,
heaven forbid) western Ger- Such rearmament would
this season this organization will
have arranged for more than
350 concerts in some 90 veter
ans hospitals.
"Eventually we hope to reach
all the hospitals, particularly
those in out-of-the-way places,"
she said.
Miss Tennyson, helped only
by a secretary, schedules the
concerts herself and pays all ex
penses of the operation. When
ever the seasonal tour of one of
the artists on her list brings
him near a veterans' hospital,
she arranges in advance for him
to appear there, too.
And he'd better not plead
weariness or laryngitis when
she gets on the long distance
phone. For a cheerful blonde
she can be mighty stubborn
with lazy singers.
"But most of the artists have
been very cooperative," she
suDDorted bv the French who !aid- "Only two out of more
have suffered so grievously l,an 300 have turned us down
from invasion in the two world
wars. The political view has
been that the reich wasn't to be
trusted again.
The expressed military view
point in any country naturally
follows the policy or the gov
ernment. However, there
and I'd rather not talk about
them. Once an artist sees the
effect he has on those shut-in
vets, he usually wants to come
back and entertain them again."
When one singer was forced
to cancel an engagement at a
Chicago hospital, Jean flew out
DeWitl Miekenil
between
ernment. However, there is a r --,
large school of military experts nerself and k.ept. th.e date
among ine western allies wno ,. ... ... . ,
maintain that from the practical , ,?er fflc llles are. ot
standpoint Germany should be letter from doc' Praising the
)iuiiaiiia lui men Hierapeuuc
k, value to patients, some of whom
many presumably would be in safeguarded by the maintenance '
ih. r.nntu.. AatarLtaa nf or amen miinarv rnrrpa. nnn trip "
west. What happens then to the Germans wouldn't be allowed
maintenance of German mili- aBain to create a military poten
tial capable of aggression.
The arguments for rearming
Germany rest mainly on two
tary impotence?
It seems a fair guess that the
reich would become not only a
vital base for operations of the
"After Claudio Arrau finish
ed one of his piano numbers a
vet sighed 'that's beautiful',"
said Miss Tennyson. "We learn
ed later they were the first
Dan I'plobn
And now we read the scient
ists have developed a bomb
which will touch off another
bomb a thousand times more
powerful than the first bomb.
With this in the making it's only
ed for an hour and a half, ad- western allies, but might be in
miring the quaint antiques, vited to call German manpower
carved ivories, suits of armor, to the colors for defense."
and the Cellini salt cellar. How- Since that writing, the Sozial
ever, the president was most im- demokrat, official newspaper of
pressed by the paintings, partic- the socialist democratic party in
points; (1) The Germans admit- word? ,hat bo had "Pken in
tedly are among the world's best , ""', .
fighting men. (2) If there is an
other general European war,
Germany is likely to be the
cockpit.
If the cold war between the
ularly one of Rembrandt's self- western Berlin, has charged that Russian bloc and western Eu-
ly happy about one fact. And a.5Uf?"" f. " befre "!ey
that was that in Hood River
county they have no taxicabs.
can rig the thing up so when
the second bomb is touched off
it will in turn explode another
one a thousand times more pow
Just an Average Driver erful than the second one. About
Alhambra, Calif, VP) Jack ,he tlme that th'rd bomb starts
Waldron, 20, may have a slight ! "' by gum' w,e're going
t , , . . ,.... 'o begin running as fast as we
bit of explaining to do in traffic can t0 get out of the wav. and
court. Traffic officers charged: we won't be following either.
Baby Shower for Oregon Couple
Includes Free Baby-Sitting
Redmond, Dec. -3 W-A night out for Mr. and Mrs. Harrv
T. Sly should be no trick at all. All members of the high
school football team volunteered an evening's free baby
sitting. A little girl said she'd tend the baby for ten hours. A
group of girls gave Mrs. Sly a book with their names and
phone numbers for free baby-sitting.
The baby who's going to get all this attention hasn't
arrived yet. The free-sitting offers were gifts at a shower
for Mrs. Sly In this central Oregon city where nelghborli
ness Is customary.
Some 200 women attended the shower and provided
gifts of a baby bed, crib, bassinet, layette and other articles.
The youngsters attended with their gifts of time because
Mrs. Sly had worked many years with the Camp Fire
Girls and Blue Birds, had been physical education director
at the grade school, and had been director of the municipal
swimming pool.
Mrs. Sly, the former Nellie Johns, Is a University of
Oregon graduate and taught In both Pendleton and Redmond
schools.
portraits.
WORLD FOOD BANK
There has been a lot of back
stage cabinet debate over the
U.N. food and agriculture organ
ization's plan to feed the world's
needy areas from U. S. farm sur
pluses. Though President Tru- in0us sounding figure,
man nas given nis omciai oiess- The Russian army newspaper
ing, nis secretary oi siaie ana Taegliche RlUidschau made the
initely against it.
They are not opposed to the
principle of feeding the hungry,
but to the cost and machinery
involved.
What the FAO advocates is an
international clearing
house where surplus commo
dities could be gathered, then
distributed to impoverished na
tions. Secretary Acheson's op
position to this idea has been
well known, but it was thought
Secretary Brannan was opposed
to him. However, he is not.
Their joint opposition is based
on the fact that a world food
clearinghouse would cost an es
timated five billion dollars, to
be divided among nations ac
cording to their national in
come, which would mean Uncle
Sam would foot about half the
bill. In other words, it would
the communists are creating a rope could be ended, the Ger-
people's army of 360,000 men in man picture would change,
the Russian zone to impose their There no longer would be need
politics even after the Russian of rearming the country.
military forces withdraw. But until this unhappy strife said soberly, "that we aren't go-
Such an army would mean between east and west is called ing to have fewer veterans in
one armed Red for every 50 per- off, the rearmament of Germany our hospitals as time goes on.
sons in the Soviet zone an om- will remain a moot question. There will be more and more."
a Dallas. Tex.,
hospital said;
"Today Jarmila Novotna came
to our ward and sang for us.
I can't ell you how important
that hour was to us."
The letter was signed by a
blind veteran.
Miss Tennyson expects to op
erate her concert bureau indef
initely. "We must realize," she
counter-charge that the Amer
icans and British are creating a
180,000-man police force in
their zones, and that the French
are recruiting 7,000 German po
lice weekly.
The western allies retort that
the total police force for all
three zones is 113,000, which is
one policeman for each 416 per
sons. Well, there we have a situa
tion which gives pause for con
sideration. It is a position in
which there could be a conflict
between political and military
thought.
Not to put too fine a point on
it, there are differences of opin
ion in some important quarters
as to whether Germany should
be rearmed in the interests of
general peace.
The political viewpoint broad-
cost Uncle Sam about 500 mil- ly speaking has been that Ger-
lion dollars the first year to give man disarmament is essential to
away only 360 million dollars the maintenance of peace,
worth of surpluses. This thesis has been strongly
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