Capital A Journal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher , ROBERT LETTS JONES, Assistant Publisher rMblished every afternoon except iunday at 444 ihe (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 for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this paper and also news published therein. Salem, Oregon, Wednesday,. December 14, 1949 More Bureaucratic Usurpation Despite protest on its legality by many congressmen and the national republican committee, the Census Bureau has announced its decision to include in its 1950 question naire, on penalty of fine and imprisonment or both for re fusal to answer, statistics on annual income of individuals. In 1940 when this inquiry first was made, many refused to answer despite the threat of a fine of $100 andor 60 days in jail holding that such queries are outside the pur pose of the census as defined in the federal constitution. The bureau made no attempt to fine those who declined to answer what they deemed a federal invasion of rights re served for them in the constitution. The census bureau bases its authority for the inquiry and penalties on Sections 4 and 9 of the Act of 1929. Sec tion 4 "restricts" the census to questions "relating to pop ulation, to agriculture, to irrigation, to drainage, to dis tribution, to unemployment and to mines" and leaves to the Census Bureau, subject to the approval of the secretary of commerce, ' the number, form and subdivision." Section 9 fixes the punishment for individuals who de cline to answer or falsify and for census bureau employes who breach the statutory guarantee that the replies will be kept confidential. This law was passed by the 71st congress and signed by President Hoover but those who passed the law had no intent of permitting the bureau to probe personal fi nances. Mr. Hoover says he would not have signed the act if he believed it authorized such questions, and intent con strues the law usually. The Census Bureau apparently has no legal right to ask income questions under the statute, unless the supreme could should so decide. It asserts authority not granted, to ask it of every fifth person only, and requires under penalty the naming of a sum only from those with incomes "under $10,000 a year." But as Author Krock states in the New York Times: "These basic faults in the reliance of the census bureau on Section 4 of Hie act of 1949 do not, however, disturb those workers in tne government for a planned society who find a higher authority than any statutes dealing with the decennial census for an inquiry designed to assist them in their planning. Thev lustify it. and the penalties for not responding, as a legiti mate exercise ot general federal power which requires no pre cise statutory language. In this view the inquiry is a "reason able' use of this general power; and they feci sure that if they could get the issue in that form before the courts (which have been largely manned by the last two presidents), their concept would prevail " Pearson's Position on Bids Earlier this year State Treasurer Pearson, with an in surance background, thought that a second to the lowest bid on liability insurance for state cars should be accepted. So did the entire board of control, for that matter. Reason for passing over the low bidder in that instance was that "extra service" of the bid award happened to be a standard stock insurance company while the loser who offered a saving of $8,778 was a reciprocal company. The loser declared its company had offered "extra service" for the three years it had had the insurance. At this week's board of control meeting none other than Bud Pearson moves to award the bulk of the state's tire business to Mike DeCicco, democratic big-shot of Port land, who entered the low bid. When challenged as to the advisability of the award to DeCicco, Pearson asked: "What's the use of seeking bids if we ignore the low bid der?" Apparently no one asked him how he justified that ques tion with his stand last summer on the insurance award. It didn't make any difference, judging from the out come, that the purchasing department had recommended that the business go instead to major concerns with higher bids. The purchasing department claimed that the state had poor experience with tires furnished by DeCicco dur ing the past year. It also didn't make any difference either that the De Cicco firm had failed to list tire outlets throughout the Btate, regardleps of such a listing being required by specifi cations. Nor did the DeCicco firm include, as furtl'ier re quired, an offer of 2 percent for cash payment. In the latter connection, the firm did offer a discount verbally. The business landed in DeCicco's lap after Secretary of State Newbry moved that the bulk of the tire business be given to DeCicco and the second low bidder, with the major tire companies getting what was left, with "experience" and service being the criterion for the amount of business given the two low bidders. Pearson failed to explain how he could take one position one time, as in the case of the liability insurance award, and another position in the case of his democratic party buddy, Mike DeCicco. The Nation's Real Threat Dr. Vannevar Bush, president of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, D.C., a noted scientist and one of the fore most authorities on atomic energy, speaking at a convoca tion at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he once served as vice president, warned against a growing trend toward federal sponsored "soft security" as a greater threat to the n-ition than Russian armaments. Dr. Bush said that if we became "a people fawning for handouts on an intriguing bureaucracy," Russia would con quer the world without military might. Although a totalitarian state like Russia could not com pete "in the long run" with a free people in the advance ment of science, ho said, it could produce what it wished "in the short run," by ignoring the sufferings of its people, "up to a limit, and that limit is high." There was no doubt that Russia was building a formid able military machine, Bush asserted, and that, barring an improbable internal collapse, "such armament will appear in the hands of an absolute closely knit central governing group of men who distrust us and would destroy us if opportunity offered." The threat could be met only "if we are strong, for the Kremlin recognizes only strength. He continued: "But we cannot meet it if we turn this country into a wishy washy imitation of totalitarianism, where every man's hand is out for pabulum and virile crcalivcncss has given place to the patronizing favors of swollen bureaucracy. "Dictatorship can compete with dictatorships, nnd a free virile democracy can outpace any such in the long pull. But a people bent on a soft security, surrendering their birthright of individ ual self-reliance for favors, voting themselves into Eden from a supposedly inexhaustible public purse, supporting everyone by soaking a fast disappearing rich, scrambling for subsidy, learning the arts of political log-rolling and forgetting the rug ged virtues of the pioneer, will not measure up to competition with a tough dictatorship. "We must have the wit to recognize a dangerous trend and lauRh at sirens with cracked-brained economic theories who would guida ui down an easy path over a precipice." BV BECK Parental Problems MERTON SAYS EVERYTHING IS l GOING FINE AT COLLEGE AND NOW LISTEN TO THIS PARAGRAPH. I HAVE LEARNED TO BEAT THE CYMBALS AND CAN JOIN THE COLLEGE BAND IF D&D WILL SEND ME THIRTY DOLLARS FOR A BAND UNIFORM. THE BAND PLAYS AT ALL THE BASKETBALL GAMES SO I'LL GET TO SEE THEM FREE.. XI TAKE AN EXTRA COURSE JTA jjJV IN StONOMIS THfcNJ I MAYBE HE'D REALIZE V I f Tuatc a uiieu nncn u in 1 1 I V S TO PAY FOR A FEW J ALL THE BASKETBALL GAMES TTT7V-?' ? i V KgOjTTO i JHEM f , . WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND John Maragon Still Enjoys Privileges; No Action on Case By DREW PEARSON Washington A significant development has taken place inside the justice department regarding the amazing John Maragon, close friend of General Vaughan and once a frequent caller at the White House. Higher-ups in justice have given orders to Morris Fay, efficient U. S. attorney BY CLARE BARNES, JR. White Collar Zoo for the district of Columbia, to give them a full report on the perjury case against Maragon and to make no move without consulting the justice depart ment. This has not been done i n MS Drew Petrion Since the justice department fin ally moved in, however, its law yers have done an efficient and persistent job. Congressman Andrew May of Kentucky Now sentenced to jail. Various hints of May's pecu liar activities were published by this column and others for some years, but it took the senate in vestigating committee, under Sen. Jim Mead of New York, to bring out the facts. After that SIPS FOR SUPPER other important cases. General the justice department acted. Benny Meyers also faced a per- Congressman Parnell Thomas jury charge, but no such order Now sentenced to jail. It took went to Fay from the justice de- , ,n0 i. ,ii ,,t partment He was convicted and Thomas.s skulduggery. After the jailed without any delay or con sultation Page Dr. Gallup canceled checks in Thomas'i John Maragon not only faces tant witnesSj were turned over to pcijuiy jhe justuje department, it car- an almost identical By DON UPJOHN Lloyd Girod, well known resident up the canyon and one of the strong proponents for the incorporation of Idanha, dropped into town yesterday and while here dropped the remark that the result of the election on the incorporation of Detroit then in pro gress would show that the proposition would lose by exactly 50 Final re "f' but,.Sen' P?rde Hoe f ried through thoroughly and ef- ' """. "" ficiently. However, Alex Camp- senate expenditures subcommit- belli dynamic chief of the critn. i, u.t.-uor em u.e udse 10 me inai djvj5ion, who carried the ft- ust W8 r- '. i votes suit of the elec tion 163 against the incorpora tion to 113 in its favor. Dr. Gal lup should have a good job awaiting this young man or maybe he should turn the business over to him. This is idea to take up a collection to buy a few other records for the disc jockey atop the Livesley building. Maybe a few more in- prosecution termissions might serve as well justice department with a re quest for prosecution. Further more, Hoey went to extra pre cautions to have a quorum of his subcommittee present when Mar- ball, had to buck some opposi tion near the top. General Benny Meyers The first public revelation that Gen- agon was questioned so there Meycrs had been up to no would be no legal loophole for good was published in this a wriggling out of a perjury , ".Tli 1 u2 A caption under a cut on the Oregonian charm page this a. m. advises that "the girl with orig inality and imagination is one who observes carefully and then remembers." Just how much or iginality and imagination is re- iob of pre-election polling that i-"--" " vi.,B could stand up under most any sort of criticism. Hidden for Keeps Lebanon Stuck in an eight gallon crock during a game of hide-and-seek, the services of bering it is not explained, but it seems the average ape can do about as well in the imagination and originality line. speculated in the stock market . . ., with as much as $4,000,000. Finally, it has been three full chief credit belongs to the months since the senate sent its Brewster committee, however, report to the justice department. ,. n. , u and still no action. Ordinarily, Meyers case and turning them it takes about one week to bring over to tne justice department, a case of this kind before a grand Arabian Oil It was also the , , , Brewster committee which de- Maragon of course, has had vel0ped the amazing manner in a special White House pass, has which certain admirals and the supplied liquor to Gen. Harry navy had overcharged the U ,S. Vaughan has ridden on special government for Arabian oil dur- presidential trains, stood on the ,- fh war Th t.i.Hna rfor,rt. city firemen were required to . " "lc f, free "Butch" Kramer, three-year law student at the "i oauiesnip wun tne ment ior reasons best known to President when he reviewed the itself, never prosecuted this scan- When Circuit Judge Rex Kim- "e " rk, and at one dali but exposure of the facts Wilis. lieu OH-WB IU llie Willie vftcl,H0J mo,,, il nnn,anP J House at almost any time of the a saving to the taxpayers of mil- old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ted Kra- , t,.i -on,',a Hin astic and legal fraternity, h i s slid into the crock with feet dou- fce reddened jus a little when bled under him, lugging plus a the 'Peaker .advised that the liberal grease job, had failed to f uef' mve1 ,'nt. Ida.ho a"iat- " lonHrtrt Ilia "llnmapcito nf lyfnr- free him when "Bib" Garrison and Jack Stolsig arrived in re- tended the "University of Mos cow." This was straightened out sponse to a call for aid. While " i.jh.w i- Stolsig held a protective blanket ,say'ng '"e University of about the child's face, Garrison Idah at Moscow. But we're told borrowed the family hammer " reddened a bit again when the and with one blow shattered the speaker continuing recounting croc.. "is accomplishments said in due : course he . was appointed by A customer drops us a note in- Governor McKay to "the circus quiring if it wouldn't be a good court of Marion county." Up to His Neck in Trouble Chicago, Dec. 14 (P) Michael Thomas Sullivan, 3, tried his mother's new two-piece cake pan on his head for size yesterday and was up to his neck in trouble. Michael removed the bottom from the pan and put the rim which he thought made a fine helmet over his head. The pan didn't come off as easily as it slipped on. Michael howled and his mother, Mrs. Jane Sullivan, 26, telephoned a fire rescue squad. Firemen used a hacksaw to cut the rim off the boy's neck. MacKENZIE'S COLUMN Another of Britain's Landed Aristocracy Trimmed by Taxes By DeWITT MacKENZIE (tat Foreign Aftalra An&lm) The disappearance of England's landed aristocracy through heavy taxation continues apace, and this economic revolution Is no respecter of persons. Among the latest victims is King George's own nephew, the young tarl of Harcwood, son of Princess Mary (the princess Phi Delta Phi, honorary schol- or n'8m- b0 w"lle General lions o dolars. x..., meyers cant even get Senator Elmer Thomas of parole. Maragon isn t even indict- Oklahoma When a grand jury 6 '-c ., , i . probing lobbyists learned about Failure to act in the Maragon n, ,, !,!,, ,ni,;, en case brings up a point regard- ator Thomas, it wanted tn indict ing the justice department which him, but the justice department "7 . " f . . e demurred. Instead, Thomas's r'"T'y m"f OI e friends, who worked with him in W hP; 7T ,a? 6 PrteC" speculating-Ralph Moore, Tom ve branch of the U. S govern- Linder, J. E. MacDonald, and ment which reaches out to pun- Robert Harriss-were indicted, ish dishonesty wherever found jje was not ueai iu eep me lea- Thomas has Wn ripfenrtpH eral government clean. leview m important cases, Uce department by No. 2 bigwig however, indicates that the jus- Peyt0n Ford, who hails from i?,n.n? . T 1S ex'.remely Oklahoma. Ford also dragged his reluctant to go after the big boys hecls at prosecuting certain other (ho , u high-ups in government while "I think it's high time something was done about the phon service in this office." Fight for Right to Toot Bedminster, N. J., Dec. 14 ;P Toyshop owner Orville Seals says he's going to fight for the right to toot. Seals rigged up a loudspeaker which broadcast far and near the realistic chugging and tooting of his toy trains. Residents near the shop complained about the noise. On of them said her little boy lay awake In bed fascinated by the trains as late as 10 p.m. Seals was fined $15 in police court. His attorney, George W. Algair, said last night he'd take the case to a higher court. POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Boyle in Doghouse, He Admits It as Santa Nears By HAL BOYLE New York W) Ladies, I've been a bad boy. And if Santa Claus is to come my way this year, you're going to have to get me out of the doghouse. How can you help? By going out and buying a big fistful of Christmas neckties and giving them to the men in your lives. About a weeks ago I bemoaned the fact that women were al lowed by law to present neckties as Chris t m a s gifts. I sug gested the for mation of a so ciety to stop the custom Well, I didn't expect to be mm- m As if I wasn't feeling bad enough, along came a telegram from Pete Hoyt, managing edi tor of the Cedar Rapids, la., Gazette, claiming I had insulted a fine old Xmas tradition. "Ten men's clothing stores here are cussing you," he said. "Eighty percent of ties are bought by women for their men folk. Some men would never wear a necktie if some women didn't buy it for him. Think during discussions inside the jus- nomjnated man-of-the-year for what a drab world it would be this suggestion. Nor did I ex- without Christmas neckties." v B . have good taste in ties and said up statues in my honor minus it would a good idea if j gave the cleanup cases have been de- the little fellows associated with -on every courthouse ZZZee Df,,comm,uees 01 them went to jail. In fact, Ford is I - ne,wsPaPers- one of the weakest-kneed in the ".",7l". " a justice departm hV7hVn:HT"K,HS!S l Soi"g after the big politicos that tl,; so-called upholders Tof Znt W" Vern' 1'. lDAt!:eH1eK . he th ha. the justice hiih i . : ' " department s criminal division a necktie- lawn. On the other hand neither did few pointers to the rest of the girls on what kind of ties men like. So, on the chance that justice department when It comes I expect to end up in the dog- . 6 1 house. But here I am it up to my cravet. -stuck in high political figure is involved, such as John Maragon, some- limnc the, rnnJf vn..A n, -I, Uo. . i . ing various treason cases- Here are a few notable cases i,, Avi. !,, Tw In point: Alger Hiss Now on trial for perjury. This case was developed by the house Un-American acti vities committee, which turned up the famed pumpkin papers. and the FBI did an excellent job of tracking down and prosecut- -not- ably Axis Sally, Tokyo Rose, Herbert Burgman, together with the Judith Coplon documents case. But in none of these were any high-up democrats or high up republicans involved. (Copyright 1S40J royal) and the sixth Earl of Harewood who died in 1947. The 26-ycar-old Earl inherited an estate valued at $2,106,4 8 0 and this has been taxed $728,072. It's the Earl's utuu mtiv mill D,.m M,eknll, much of his in heritance consisted of an ances tral estate of 24.000 acres on succeeded his father in the earl dom in 1929. was hand-picked as suitor of the young princess. He was 40 years old, of impec cable reputation, a grenadier guardsman, a thrice wounded veteran of the World War, and with considerable experience in diplomacy. And, as I recall it, he inherit ed a vast fortune from an uncle, apart from the family estate. What a weding that was! I was stationed in London at which live hundreds of tenant that time with the A. P., and it farmers. was my good fortune to attend In order to raise the cash to the ceremony in Westminister meet bis taxes he must sell much Abbey. The American public of his property, which has been devoured the story and report in the family for generations, ers poured a torrent of words More than incidentally this pre- across the Atlantic. For weeks sumably deprives him of a large before the weding, the press on revenue. both sides of the ocean was full of details about the forthcom- The Earl's predicament is that ing event, experienced by so many others One assumes from the size of of this class of society. In the the estate left to the present case whore property changes Earl of Harewood that his father hands three or four times quick- spent a fortune In maintaining ly, the estate may be virtually his position, the elder since was wiped out. reputed to have had much more This of course means that the than he handed on to his heir, day of the crimson-coated squire That, of course, is understand riding to the hounds, with a able, for the expenses of royalty "Tally-Ho," across his rolling are heavy, acres is just about ended. Thus Britain is losing one of its most However, the current holder cherished traditions. of the title isn't doing so badly. The red coats are being hung It's tough to lose so much of his away, and the owners are trudg- ancestrnl estate, but if my math ing to jobs in office or shop, even ematics are right he still had as you and I. close to the equivalent of a mil- It's an ironic twist of fate that lion and a half dollars in prop only as far back as 1922, when erty. A feller can squeeze along the present Earl's father mar- on that for a while, ried the princess royal, the Hare- He's more fortunate than a wood fortune was huge. Not to good many others. A lot of the put too fine a point on the mat- landed aristocracy are so close tor, it had to be in order to to broke that they arc making support the king's daughter in their livings in all sorts of jobs, (he manner to which she was ac- many involving manual labor, customed. They arc the shadows of a fast The Viscount Harewood, who disappearing das. I. Traffic Judge Makes Impression Los Angeles, Dec. 14 (P) Traffic Judge Roger A. Pfaff delivers a long lecture on safety before meeting out punish ment to offenders. But he didn't realize his oratory was this good. Truck driver Charles R. Lanese, 41, was in court for driving without a tail light. He listened to the judge's sermon. Then, when his case was called, he proved the tail light had been fixed. Judge Pfaff suspended a S5 fine. "Your honor," Lanese protested, "This appearance in your -traffic court has been a great experience. I want to pay the a wnt in give h to you. ' The judge agreed to forward Lancse's donation to the Na tional Safety Council. OPEN FORUM Claims Global Water Shortage (Editor's Note: Letters to the Open Forum must be limited to 300 words and must be signed by the writer.) To the Editor: Considerable has been said and written during the last five years about water shortages, but nobody seems to pay much attention; that is, nobody except the scientists who know whereof they speak. Maybe the present water crisis in New York and many other places will induce other people to take heed. There is a water York Zoological Society, fellow shortage, and it threatens not of the Academy of Sciences and only our own country but the member of the Natural Re whole world. sources Council of America. It It may sound extravagant, but is a calm scientific report of the the present course of human condition of our planet now and marauding indicates that not too in the past, and its certain fu far In the future the people of ture unless we change our ways, the earth may be frantically ask- It has elicited the startled at ing how they are going to feed tention of our greatest men of themselves. Many nations are science and economics, already pitifully asking for it: Robert M. Hutchlns. president China and India, for instance, of the University of Chicago where thousands starve every says: "It is more than a book; year. it is a creed dedicated to all Great deserts cover parts of who care abut tomorrow." The our earth which were once lush author suggests that the only and fecund, and nations have apparent way to forestall the disappeared. With the earth's tragic crjsis is to arouse people population doubling every ccn- everywhere as to what is hap tury and men's rapacity increas- Ppning, so that they may organ! ing in still greater ratio, the to avert further frenzied prog crisis is now not far distant. ress on ihe road to disaster. It Those who feel like smiling is a duty the present generation comfortably at these statements owes to " children, should read the book: "Our A. M. CHURCH Plundered Planet," by Fairfield 1400 North Summer St. Osborn, president of tha New Salem There is only one sure way, ladies, to make a man happy with a gift cravet. He probably The first reaction came from will be already wearing the tie my own wife. he loves best. Just kick his feet "So you don't think women ou' from u"d" him. Pin him are smart enough to pick out wlth a half-Nelson, tear the tie neckties, Rover?" said Frances, rom around his throat, take it baring a bicuspid. "You'll be J? tne store and say, "Gimme lucky if you get even a bowtie !he nearf,st one hke " yu ot from me, smarty. And where, ,n stock. anvhow. is that fur coat vou " ya can 1 Set his favorite tie promised me 12 years ago? Are away flor" him' then tak a you waiting for the minks to color Phol o vour Christmas die of old age?" Right on top of that, Byron tree ties. to the store. Put the If they match, don't buy Another good way is to pick out a tie and tell the salesman, if I purchase this one, will you Pi.i. --I iJi r u.' 0.I141- any. Try to select one that looks Times, wanted to know if I was as little.1,ike the ch"stmas tree trying to ruin his annual Christ- as P0ssl01e- ( ( ( mas party. It seems that Seattle men are proud of the neckties their wives give them. Last December 29 take it in exchange for the one they held a "national necktie you have on? , can take lt party day" on which every ma,. home and u and hu. proud y wore the most flam- band wiu nevcr know th'e dif. boyant tie on his Christmas ference." rack' If the salesman backs away They were going to give a In terror, choose another tie. mid-day grand prize, but unfor- But if you just simply can't tunately the judges went color make UP yU1' mind. there's al- blind by mid-day. This year ways, .thi w.ay ,out-b"y yur , . , . boy friend a tie for his tux. You 3yron s going to give them can's en far astrav thro ma'm blinders. even at Christmas. Whistle Adds Color to Plea Atlanta, Dec. 14 OJ.R) When restaurant owner Ralnh Stringer reported that his little girl's Cocker Spaniel was lost, disc jockey Bob Corlcy announced it over station WQXI and then whistled for the dog over the air, just to add color to the plea. An hour later, after the broadcast. Corley went to the sta tion's door to investigate a noise. Outside was the Cocker, scratching to get In. Little Irish, Immigrant Boy Feels Prayers Are Answered Marshall, Mo., Dec. 14 (f A little Irish boy who came to America a year ago from a Dublin orphanage feels his prayers have been answered. When five-year-old Charley Robertson was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. J. Marlon Robertson and brought to this country, he left his pal, Tony Markey, back in the orphanage. During the past year, Charley always mentioned Tony, also five, in his prayers. J Saturday a visitor showed up at Charley's home In Marshall. It was Tony. "I am an American," were Tony's first words. "Welcome to America, Tony," said Charley. "My name Is Jimmy now," veplied Tony. "Jimmy King Prior." Tony, or rather Jimmy, came to America last week. H was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. W. King Prior of nearby Jef ferson City, Mo. Tht Priori art friends of Dm Robertsons.