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4 Salem, Oregon, Saturday, December 10, 1949
An Admission of Fear and Weakness
The idea of an unopposed slate of republican candidates
for the May primaries may be considered smart "politics"
by the top command of the GOP in Oregon, but such a
single listing would have the stamp of a "machine" to the
average voter.
Several days ago the Republican Women's Federation
urged that its party "subordinate all differences" and
work for renomination of the present GOP incumbents.
This is asking republican voters to give blanket endorse
ment to members of the party already in office.
Perhaps many of the office-holders with the republican
label rate renomination by party members but such an arbi
trary single-slate endorsement as proposed tends to make
of the primary nothing but a new version of the discarded
convention system of selection of candidates.
In the convention system party bosses handed down the
list of candidates for the voters. The list was "picked" by
8 party convention.
The convention system was Bubject too readily to control
by a group or a man. The direct primary system supposedly
brought the selection of the nominees to the rank and file
of party members. The thought in the primary was that
the mass of party voters would gain control of the run
ning of the party.
Now part of the republican leadership in the state wants
to ride along next year on the previously-selected candi
dates. Individual ability and performance of the various
candidates is given no consideration. The Republican Wo
men's Federation has indicated it is so anxious to keep
party harmony that it is willing to make the primary mean
ingless. And of all states in which such a reversion to the blan
ket, hand-me-down list should be proposed, it is in Ore
gon, first state to adopt the state-wide direct primary
system.
In the elections last year the republican leadership rose
above such partisanship and fear when it adopted the
slogan : "Vote for the best man. May the best man win."
The contrast between the attitude of last year and the
one proposed for 1950 by a part of the republican leader
ship doesn't speak well for the party.
What has happened to the boldness of the GOP of last
year? ,
Right-to-Work Law Upheld
The United States supreme court in its last decisions,
sustained the constitutionality of the Arkansas "right-to-work"
law. The opinion was written by Justice Robert
H. Jackson and only Justice William O. Douglas, who is
ill, didn't take part.
Two Negroes were indicted on charges of using force
and violence to prevent a non-striker from working. But
following their conviction, the case went through many
phases in the courts, the principal controversy concerning
what parts of the Arkansas statute were affected.
Four separate opinions have been handed down by the
Arkansas courts, and one by the supreme court, before
the present decision. Lawyers for the CIO assailed the
constitutionality of the state law.
The Arkansas law contain two sections. The first makes It
unlawful for any person to use force, violence or threats to keep
another from engaging In any lawful vocation. The second
section has two parts: (1) making it a crime for two or more
persons to assemble at or near the scene of a labor dispute Hnd
by force or violence prevent, or try to prevent, anyone from
engaging in lawful work; and (2) prescribing it unlawful for
any person, acting alone or with others, to "promote, encourage
or aid any such unlawful assemblage."
In March, 1948, the United States supreme court upset the
convictions ind returned the case to the Arkansas supreme
court. The supreme court at Washington, said the men were
tried for violating one part of the act, but the Arkansas tribunal
ruled that they had violated another part. Two more opinions
were issued by the Arkansas court upholding the convictions;
and from the last of these the CIO lawyers appealed to the
supreme court.
In its conclusion, the court held that Section 2 of the
Arkansas law "fairly apprises men of ordinary intelligence
that for two or more to assemble and by force or violence
prevent or attempt to prevent another from engaging in
any lawful vocation constitutes an unlawful assemblage,
and that the promotion, encouragement, or aiding thereof,
is unlawful."
There is no law more violated by labor unions and by the
government itself, especially during wartime, than the
inherent right of every man to work, without paying trib
ute to racketeers and being punished therefor by goon
squads. Every prolonged strike brings new instances of
its violation, and it ought not to require a supreme court
affirmation for its enforcement.
Australia Fed Up on Socialism
The Country and Liberal coalition, combining the Free
Enterprise opposition, have apparently won the Australian
general election Bnd turned out the Socialist Labor party
and will govern Australia for the next three years, thus
halting the trend to eventual totalitarianism.
The contest was for control of the 123-seat house of rep
resentatives. If final returns confirm the opposition vic
tory, it will mean the end of socialist rule in Australia after
eight years. Neighboring New Zealand also kicked out its
socialist government 10 days ago, and Winston Churchill's
conservatives in Britain hope to oust the mother country's
socialist government in an election early next year.
A. W. Fadaen, leader of the Country party, issued a
statement attributing the swing to the right to:
1. Australia's "general discontent" with socialism.
2. It fear of "Socialism's twin brother, communism." The
labor government has refused to outlaw the communist party
despite opposition demands.
3. "Stubbornness on petrol (gasoline) rationing." The coun
try party favored abolition of gasoline rationing, a major prob
lem In the vast continental distances of Australia.
About five million votes were cast. Robert Menzies,
liberal leader, who will become prime minister, commented :
"The socialists were brought to power in New Zealand,
Australia and Great Britain in that order. This dramatic
result seems a happy omen that they will go out in that
same order."
Great Britain must hold a general election before next
July. Labor had been in power 14 years in New Zealand,
8 years in Australia, and in Britain since 1945.
Menzies, born in 1894, is a lawyer, called to the bar in
1918, king's counsel in 1929, attorney general of Australia,
1935-39, prime minister, 1939-41, and a member of the ad
visory war council.
BECK
The Tip Off
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I THANKS VBTf ARE GETTING ME FOR CHRISTMAS )
( MUCH tAOM WE'LL ) IwHej THEY COMB THROUGH W OLD )
7 FIX THOSE TOYS ) STUFF FOR CHARITIES, THEY r-
(UP AMO THEY'LL I ALWAYS HAND OUT DUPLICATES J-
7 MAKE SCWe.KgSfcjL OF THE THINGS THEY'RE r
l POOR KIOS "TllM I 6IVIN8 ME FOR BT
Wants to Be Emperor of Japan
Tokyo, Dec. 10 VP) Welfare officials polled local young
sters on what they want to be when they grow up.
"School teachers," said the girls.
"Baseball players," said the boys.
But one fourth grader decided there's only one job for him.
He wants to be the emperor of Japan.
Mts&maivirmi KMinwummiitautf ii in mi1 m mm mi mm i
BY CLARE BARNES, JR.
White Collar Zoo
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Chapman Learns How to Be
Dry in Wet Washington
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Colorado Is a dry state, at least atmospherically
speaking, but not half so dry as its own son, Oscar Chapman, the
new secretary of interior.
Washington, on the other hand, is wet. From the 12-noon mar
tini to 'the 12 o'clock nightcap, there is a constant round of wet-
"The
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Why Should There Be So
Much Darkness in the World?
BY REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
Rctor St Paul' Spucopil cbareb
When the ancients understood the absolute dependence of living
things on the sun's light and other rays, they became sun-worshlp:
pers. It would be surprising if they had not.
The astrologers of two thousands years ago were searching the
heavens for the key to territorial problems and events. Any star
giving forth unusually brilliant
light meant to them that an might well ask why there should
ness: "The am
bassador of Ar
gentina requests
the pleasure of
your company
"The
American Aero
nautical associ
ation invites
you to be pres
ent "The secretary
of the treasury
and Mrs. Sny
der, etc. . . . "So it goes.
The white-engraved cards
come in the mail and by hand, to
the office and to the home, and
no man in public life can "re
gret" them all.
A hostess covets a caoinei
Drew FesnoD
him. More recently he has been
in competition with the Vanad
ium corporation in Colorado and
New Mexico. He now has his
own caribou mine in Colorado
where he produces pitchblende
and uranium. American interests-have
been trying to block
him.
Pregel is a member of the
French Legion of Honor and is
one of only three Americans to
receive an honorary member
ship in the French Doctors of
Engineers, the other two being
Dwight Eisenhower and Herbert
Hoover.
The justice department's de
portation maneuver is based up
on the contention that Pregel's
Family photo on the boss's desk . . .
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Hal's Been Sick, So Bongo
Has Been Visiting Him
By HAL BOYLE
New York VP) Bongo came back the other night. -
I hadn't seen him for a year. " V
Quickly I put my pillow over my face and counted: "1 2 3 4 S
6 7 8 9 10." But when I looked again he was still there, filling
the doorway with his vast bulk. .-
member as a bobby-soxer covets passport was not in order when
a crooner's autograph. If he ac- he arrived here as a refugee
cepted half the bids, he could re- irom i ranee in 1940.
event of tremendous import- be so much
ance was about to take place on world today,
the earth.
It was this
darkness in the
course of r e a -soning
which
caused the Magi
to search thru
the prophecies
to see if there
might be some
connection b e
tween the bril
liant star which
"Ll'''lL
fill
The answer is found in Scrip
ture: "The light shineth in dark
ness, and the darkness compre
hendeth it not."
The light truly shineth in
every man's soul, but it is all too
often hidden there under doubts
und fears, taboos, despairs, and
other forms of darkness.
The purpose of the dissemin
ation of Christian teaching has
been for 1900 years, and still is,
to help people to a fuller realiz
ation of this Light, and its pow-
duce himself to a happy state of
alcoholic incompetence in a
fortnight.
But Oscar Chapman, by secret
methods of his own, has discov
ered how to be dry, yet sociable.
In short, he has lived through 16
years of Washington wining and
dining without taking a drink.
Or rather, he takes a drink ev
ery time, but never drinks it.
That's his secret.
Bongo is a
phosphor
escent gor
illa with search
light eyes and
teeth like trans
lucent baseball
bats. He wad
dled noiselessly
over to the bed,
FRENCH COMMUNIST PURGE
Maurice Thorez, the French
communist leader, is worried ov
er reports that he will be purged
by Moscow. A prediction by this
commentator was Dicked nn hv
the news agencies and cabled to sat down on my'jft
the French newsoaners. Knees ana open
Followin this. Moscouj Wit- ed a checker
ed Jacques Duclos, the No. 2
French communist, to attend the
cominform meeting in Hungary
last week while Thorez stayed
Hftl BoyU
Caught red-handed in his de- nomei which has caused Thorez
blazed forth in rt. aeon h. sm
the sky at that
time, and the fulfillment of er to light up the souls of all
some prophecy. men everywhere.
Acting upon this, they were
eventually lead to the Christ, However discouraged one may
the "Light that lightest every be with world conditions as they
man that COmeth into the havff hppn mil in a mnmrs
world."
.
In the creation story In Gene
sis we read that God said, "Let
there be light,' and there was men.
still are, the Light has not gone
out. It has only been buried un
der fears, the selfishness, the
greed, the brutality of worldly
light." When we realize that
God brought light into his crea-
We should endeavor to clear
away the debris in the world and
tion, and that he sent Christ as in our hearts, and let the true
the light that lighteth every man "Light
that cometh into the world. We forthl
of the World" shine
Six Lives More Than a Cat
Tokyo, Dec. 10 VP) Hlromasa Sato tried oh, how he tried
to end his life.
He tried 15 times In all, up in northern Hokkaido.
The record shows: He took cyanide once, tried hanging him
self six times, jumped In front of trains eight times.
He finally piled railroad ties on the tracks. The idea was
to derail a train, kill a few people and then be punished for
the crime. The attempt failed but that's how Sato finally
got into court.
The judge studied the case and adjudged Sato insane.
"That's foolish," said Sato. "I just want to be sentenced
to death."
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Ready to Quit
something to man's heart, mak
ing him feel kindlier toward
friend and foe and more thought
ful of those less fortunate. For
a short time in all the year,
man forgets himself and thinks
of others. In late years, Christ
mas has been more and more
commercialized, but it still re
mains the greatest holiday in all
the year.
By DON UPJOHN
A story In our favorite paper the other evening by Bill Warren
of the United Press advising that Governor Doug McKay is ad
miral of the state's navy including command of the ferry boats
has stirred a quick response in the soul of County Commissioner
Ed Rogers. One of Ed's duties as a county commissioner is to act
as admiral of,
the ferry fleet
or so h e ;'.
thought until J
he read Bills
story. It has
been, among
other things,
one of Ed's Jobs
to . try to keep
t h e Wheatland
ferry In opera
tion. This recal
citrant barge
has a hard time of It. Either the
water is too high or too low. The foregoing Christmas sentl-
either the current is too swift menU make uJ wish tQ add we,ye
or too sluggish, or when these somewhat .d,sapp0,n,ed
troubles are not rife the river ' . .
throws up a sand bar at the ap- that nobody has touched us on
proach and the ferry Is stuck the elbow and asked if we are
again. "I was glad to read," Santa Claus. If a benign, vener-
said Ed, "that Doug is the ad- able looking old cluck like us
, ' ib. Vm roariv can wander around the streets
miral of the fleet. 1 m reaay
,. . and not be mistaken for Santa
and willing to turn the Wheat- c,aus we can,, he,p bu, wonder
land ferry over to him at an just what type was touched on
Instant's notice. And he can have the elbow. We imagine that
the Buena Vista ferry command, 'here were more enticing look
too, as far as that is concerned. "le blondes and bewitching
' . . brunettes touched on the elbow
While I've tried to do my duly, ,ast evenng tnan all the Santa
I'm not proud. I'll be especially Claus looking guys who were
happy to have him put his hand abroad.
to the tiller of the Wheatland
ferry and retire to tha post of
vice-admiral and watch the oper
ations from the shore."
ception, Chapman confessed:
"Well, I do it this way. At a
cocktail party, for instance, I
never refuse a drink. I take the
glass and just hold it in my
hand. Then, when the waiter
comes around with more, I pre
tend I've just had a refill.
"If it's a state dinner, with
toasts for the guest of honor, I
put the glass to my lips like ev
eryone else, but the champagne
stays in the glass."
Then with a sad shake of his
head, the secretary of the inter
ior laments: "I hate to think of
all the liquor that has been pour
ed out uselessly for me!"
CZARIST URANIUM KING
One by-product of the con
gressional investigation of al
leged secrets sent to Russia in
1943-44 is a demand for the de
portation of one of the leading
uranium magnates of the world,
who was given permission to
ship uranium to Russia in May,
1943.
He is Boris Pregel, a czarist
Russian who has lived in exile
in France and the United States
for the past 32 years. As a result
of recent publicity, the immigra
tion bureau of the justice depart
ment has been considering a
clamor that Pregel be deported.
However, close examination
of the facts on file at the justice
department would indicate that
Pregel may be a victim of public
hysteria and also, perhaps, of
competition from American
commercial forces.
The uranium shiplent which
he sent to Russia, according to
the testimony of Lieut. Gen.
Leslie Groves, had the official
O.K. of the Manhattan project.
The license number was 1,643,-
180, given by the U. S. govern'
to ask his Russian friends what
is wrong.
(CoPTTllht 19491
board.
" P 1 a y I " he commanded.
It is the only word Bongo
knows.
Reluctantly I made the first
move and Bongo countered.
Back and forth the checkermen
marched.
Sandra Has Early Christmas
Sunnyside, Wash., Dee. 10 VP) Eight-year-old Sandra Pit
xer's premature Christmas is a community project.
Her classmates brought a nickel each to school yesterday;
the Junior Chamber of Commerce has donated cash; business
men have come up with toys and trinkets; firemen have
added more playthings; and other city residents contributing
things that would make a kid's Christmas a happy one.
Reason for the special effort is blonde-haired Sandra's suf
fering from leukemia. Her doctor says it's just a matter of
time. And time may run out before Santa makes his regu
lar annual jaunt
Georgia Admires Mothers
Madera, Calif., Dee. 10 VP) Mrs. John T. Glbbs of Atlanta,
Ga., who was the mother of twins and then triplets within
10 months, is due for a new washing machine.
Five former Georgia farmers have sent the following tele
gram to Ralph Magill, Editor of the Atlanta Constitutional:
Georgia boys of Madera, Calif., always admire those who
produce. Therefore, we are shipping to you to be delivered
1 to Mrs. Gibbs, mother of triplets and twins, one new wash
ing machine. (Signed) the Bakers, the Poythres, the Ridge
ways, the Kings, and the Rogers."
OPEN FORUM
Truth on Government Spending
(Editor's Note: Letters to the Open Forum must be limited
to 300 words and must be signed by the writer.)
To the Editor: I am quoting an article which was published
in "Sips for Supper" of the Capital Journal of November 28,
as it seems worthy of repetition as a means of divulging the
truth regarding govenment financing.
"Complaint is being heard from Washington that the campaign
to sell 'E' bonds is not receiving
a too ready response and sales posing of public funds. The
are tapering off. This is a case spending record was S16.4 bil-
180, given by the U. S. govern- where a job of overselling has lion, more than $3 billion greater by three kings and Bongo's
ment to Chematar, 40 Exchange been done a there ever was one. than the cost nf InJm rf. 7y... u mgS.', ani Uong!
Place, New York City, the offi- PeopIe have been given a diet of ing the same period a vear aeo." STI.'.
nial nnrrhasintf affent nf the sov- ra.... c. n ' 1-...
Dawn streamed through the
windows just as the alarm clock
rang and Bongo finished win
ning his 17th straight game. ' He
sneered and ambled out of the
My wife awoke and saw ma
shivering and haggard-eyed.
"What's the matter with you?"
'.'I been playing checkers with
Bongo." .
"Oh, dear," said Frances,
"you're sick again. You've got a
fever."
The thermometer showed she
was right.
So for the next two days she
stoked me with orange juice and
aspirin. Bongo stayed away dur
ing the daytime, but each night
he came back.
It's a funny thing about him.
When other people I know fall
sick, roses and boxes of fruit
and scores of friends come to
call on them. Sickness can ba
fun under those circumstances.
But when I get ill the only one
I'm sure will come Is dumb old
Bongo with his checkerboard.
He first came when I had the
measles as a child, and he's been
coming ever since. Nobody en
joys my illnesses more than Bon
go. -
Frances frankly doesn't be
lieve there really is a Bongo at
all.
"He is just a mental guilt com
plex or something you get when
you don't feel well," she said.
But not even a guilty complex
could play checkers as lousy ai
Bongo. Only a real ape could be
as ignorant as he is.
Bongo plays worse every year.
He also cheats. Whenever he
thinks I have him cornered, ha
turns his searchlight eyes away
and makes a few sudden moves
in the darkness. When he turns
his eyes back to the board he's
got me cornered.
When I told this to Frances,
she said:
"I certainly wouldn't play
checkers with a monkey that
didn't observe the rules. Don't
you have any pride?"
I do, indeed but not when
I'm alone with a gorilla. And
I am haunted by a fear that
sometime I'll make a mistake
and win a game. I don't think
Bongo would like that. Once I
had his last checker surrounded
'Buv Savines Bonds' mornine.
let government, ior ouu pounas noon and nignt for neariy a dec-
The Capital Journal is one
paper that gives us the facts re-
of black uranium oxide and 500 ade and ifs beginning to run off fI ,Jf" V1? faVfS re"
pounds of uranium nitrate. back. ke water ofi the ?"dln . governmental affairs,
pounds
The fact that a czarist Rus
sian was at that time the only
private individual able to sell
uranium is in itself an interest
ing story.
their backs like water off the
feathery duck. This is one case
where more bonds will be sold
with less ballyhoo.
'It may be added that enor
but facts are not sufficient.
There should be a combination
of leading newspapers to bring
pressure to bear upon Congress
to assert the authority given it
Well, last night Bongo was
late in arriving. It was almost
morning when he came over and
squatted on my bed. He spread
open the board and grunted.
"Play!"
I looked at the board and saw
mmis sums must have been x v, - .n...:. I j8!, J in horror that he had brought a
...w ,ifo spent in putting over this great- caoitol of the armv'n nrfilM(. chess game instead of checker.
wealthy Russian family, fled est sales campaign in history and spenders. And II couW teH I that he didr
from Moscow in 1917, just ahead
of the Bolshevik purge. Living
in France, he invested money in
the Belgian uranium trust and
was one of the first experts to
predict that unlocking'the secret
of the atom would not only de
cide the outcome of the war, but
the future control of the world.
In an interview with the Mi
ami News. Jan. 12, 1941, Pregel
made exactly this prediction.
Long before the war, Pregel,
a multimillionaire, had become
the sole sales agent of the Bel-
know the difference.
Silently I slid my hand over
and turned back the alarm
clock. It shrilled, "brr . . .rrr , . .
Ya .n must nnma K, 4mm ftna
place the dough the people are !VIanv members of Congress
putting up with which to buy Plnt .out the danger through
t,0 t rr, v. rr, r.t ih. magazine articles, articles bv
ootential buyers are lust a little wh!c.h. thev reallv disclose their rrring:
tired of pungling up the money lnaDlllty to cope with the pow- Bongo flew Into a rage. He be
to buy more publicity to get them "ful bureaucracy. They should gan to growl and reached out to
to buy more bonds to buy more '! nws to correct cutt me. But trances began to
publicity and so on ad inflntum
"And if aforesaid be treason,
let them shoot us at sunrise."
In my humble opinion a cry
of treason would come only from
advocates of spending to bring
prosperity, and the general pub'
the evil,
E. F. WALDEN,
gian uranium trust, and came to " should pat the writer of the
permanently in "" "".r",, , .
Spark Still Burns
(Gladys Shields in Jefferson
Review)
A. old a. we are, w. get a , dMen,ed onor M we M g
thrill out of Christmas, and hope move advantageous to the as
w always will. Chris Unas does soclation.
Nutgrowers of Oregon and
Washington did a good job when
they selected Harry Pearcy to
head the affairs of their organi
zation for the coming year. In
his quiet way Harry has been
one of the big factors in ad
vancing the Interests of the in
dustry during the years and it's
this country
1940 after the nazis overran
France. He then organized the
Canadian Radium and Uranium
corporation and acquired an in
terest in the Fort Hope uranium
mines in Canada.
Late in 1941, he became the
sole sales agent for Canadian Ur
anium, and when the United
States first began to experiment
with the idea of splitting the
atom, it was Pregel who deliver
ed the first shipment of uranium
to Columbia university five
tons on June 7, 1941, even be
fore Pearl Harbor.
Pregel got in wrong with the
British because he opposed ship
ments of uranium to England,
and Winston Churchill at one
from taxes is insufficient to re
tire maturing bonds, an effort
must be made to sell more bonds
for that purpose, but it is quite
probable that most of tha bally
hooing comes from the advocates
of deficit spending if they are
unable to get higher taxes. Ac
cording to the "Fair Deal," the
spending must go on.
An editorial in the Capital
Journal of December 2 discloses
the activity of this element in
government. I quote from same:
"The report from the treasury
department for the first 21
weeks ending November 30 for
the fiscal year show that the
federal government is spending
far beyond its income and set-
time was on the warpath against ting peace lima record tor dis-
awaken then and Bongo, with a
final menacing growl, folded
his vamfl hnatv4 nnHai. hla aim
w x-oruana na., saiem. and stomped out of the room.
Christmas Spirit in Evidence
St. Louis, Dec. 10 VP) Noses pressed against the display
window, two small Negro boys in patched clothing watched
intently. The drug store employe was laying track for an
electrie train.
Elmer Sona, the track layer, beckoned to the boys to come
inside.
They entered timidly. But they went to work with a
will when he said, "I don't know much about trains how
about helping?"
The kids were very ousy for the next hour. They un
packed train cars, built the small station, helped get the auto
matic log loader working.
A large crowd of spectators gathered outside, and tha
Christmas spirit was much in evidence.
Just What the Doctor Ordered
Washington, Dec 10 VP) You might say that this calling
card is just what the doctor ordered.
A visiting doctor at the AMA convention told a reporter
to look him up sometime if the newsman came to his town.
Then he produced from his pocket a "card" bearing his
nam and address a blank prescription paper.
I