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Salem, Oregon, Saturday, December 17, 1949
In Unity There Is Strength
American Protestants have launched another effort for
church unity, a single Protestant church in the United
States. This is the result of the conference just concluded
at Greenwich. Conn., after months of preparation and
three days of actual session. The problem of unity is still
unsettled.
The conference did not try to rush things, like a similar
proposal in 1920 when the completed plan was wrecked by
the first veto from a single chuch. So instead of an actual
plan for union, "a plan for a plan" materialized.
So the conference gave its name to a permanent official
organization that will try to evolve a plan for unification
during the next year and present it at a new conference in
1951.
Seven churches with more than 14,000,000 (members)
sponsored the conference, and seven other churches and
the four great inter-church councils lent them moral sup
port by sending observers. American Protestantism as a
whole has nearly 45,000,000 members. Methodist Bishop
Ivan Lee Holt of St. Louis, a veteran of the long Methodist
struggle for unification, was named to lead the conference
as chairman of the continuing executive committee.
The permanent Conference on Union will enlist seven
representative;, from each denomination. The inter
church councils will have two consultants each. This will
be the general executive body.
Under it wi.l be another committee with two members
from each of the sponsoring churches. Other churches in
terested in merger may also join it. This is the group that
will draw up the plan for union.
Before any final action is taken, the conference will
send representatives to the many Protestant denomina
tions. These representatives will listen to what the indi
vidual churches have to say and carry their words back to
the conference on union.
The unity plan faces a hard task. It was attacked dur
ing the recent conference when one church group, the
American Council of Christian Churches, with 1,500,000
members, called it "totalitarianism in the raw" and a "brand
of socialism more enslaving than that cursing England
the current disease of unio-mania."
Bishop Holt iooks for rough sledding. He said: "Those
of us who have participated in the conference are under
no illusions. It may take a good many years before we
realize the dream of creating a larger Protestant church
in this country . . . but we are being led in that direction."
The conference also hopes to stimulate smaller unifica
tion plans already in progress, such as that of the Evan
gelical and Reform churches, and the Congregational and
Christian churches and the proposed merger of the Presby
terian and Episcopalian churches.
'World-Shaking' Event
What is the most "world-shaking" event of the first half
of the 20th century ? A Harvard historian says it is the
emergence of the United States as one of two dominant
world powers.
Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger gives this reasoning for
his choice:
This assumption of world responsibility is both dramatic
and significant in that the U. S. was forced into this posi
tion against its own wishes without experience or prepar
ation." The last four words of that quotation "without experi
ence or preparation" will determine what the United
States docs in the next 50 years as a result of the dom
inance thrust on the nation in the first 50 years. It is go
ing to take a new kind of leadership within the country to
assume the responsibility of the moment and of the com
ing years.
For instance, President Truman showed signs of realiz
ing that responsibility when he made his declaration of
policy toward helping countries threatened by commun
ist aggression. That declaration was quickly tagged the
"Truman Doctrine." Then again with the blockading of
Berlin, the air-lift was an inspiration of the moment. But
these spasmodic rulings for specific areas were not enough
and still are not brilliant though they may be.
Take a quick look around the world today for a moment.
The western allies admittedly have no answer to the
real threat of an East German army, backed by an iron
rule of the Russians over Poland. What if Moscow offers
to give back to East Germany those areas given to Poland ?
What if Russian troops are withdrawn from the eastern
zone in Germany?
What is the answer to Russian domination of China?
Or to loss to the Reds of the island of Formosa which juts
into the American line of island defenses in the far Pa
cific? What will the United States do if communist forces
continue their advance on the Asiatic continent down into
Indo-China? Or, into Burma?
If any of these events come to pass, and some seem quite
likely to do so. what will United States leadership offer in
the way of answers ? No one in Washington can act sur
prised if any of those events do happen. And yet, what
will this nation do to counter such moves?
If Washington has any solutions to these problems, no
one back there has revealed them. But the United States
can't keep its unwanted global leadership, "world-shaking"
as it may be, without internal leadership to meet the re
peated crises of the next 50 years.
The Airplane's 47th Birthday
This is the 47th birthday of the airplane and is being
celebrated not only at Kitty Hawk, N.C., when Wilbur and
Orvillo Wright made the first flight in a heavier-than-air,
power-driven machine, but also at Dayton O. The govern
ment is also celebrating the occasion by the first day sale
of a commemorative six-cent air mail stamp honoring the
w..;tiia of i.';if Uo,.tL- ,v,nAA
n nKiibfi nb win.,, ian, nnuac t Ull Hje w as M iliup-
ed by 300,000 first day covers.
Though the initial sale of the stamp was denied to Day
ton, its stamp collectors are guaranteeing themselves first
day covers cancelled in Dayton by flying 15,000 of the
stamps to Dayton from Kitty Hawk by a jet fighter flying
to Kitty Hawk and back with a special letter for cancella
tion, making the round trip within three hours less time
than was required by the telegram announcing the first
successful flight to travel from Kitty Hawk to Dayton.
Aviation has come a long way since the Wrights' flimsy
craft flew 120 feet in 12 seconds. This airplane has
wrought a revolution in transportation, industry and war
fare and almost daily faster and bigger and better air
planes are announced for both commercial and war uses.
It has been both a blessing and a curse to humanity but
such is progress.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND-
Jimmie Byrnes Doesn't
Figure Truman's Any Caesar
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Accidentally this column has got mixed up In the
row between President Truman and his old secretary of state,
Jimmie Byrnes.
Some time ago, Byrnes wrote this columnist a letter regarding
the circumstances under which he resigned from the state de-
partment. It
In charge of internal revenue s
penal division. It seemed certain
from this discussion that crim
inal prosecution of the above
named gamblers would be rec
ommended to the justice depart
ment. One other official attending
this conference was assistant
commissioner of internal reven
ue Daniel A. Bolich, who has
been seen in New York in the
company of the famous gamb
ling king, Frankie Costello.
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THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Shut-ins Need Friends
At This Time of the Year
BY REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
Retof Si Paul'i episcopal etiureb
John the Baptist was serving time in prison. He was behind
bars, not because of his misdeeds, but because he had the courage
of his convictions and spoke out against local conditions too
boldly.
In prison, John was discouraged. He was disheartened. He
was lonely.
Like so many others when who belong to a club, lodge, or
they are incarcerated in jails or social group (or church) who
institutions of one sort or an- may be the most popluar in his
other, John had become "the for- or her) set gets into some dif
ficulty which means mcarcera
;"",tion in prison or an institution.
Then, like John the Baptist,
he becomes the forgotten man.
He looks for a visit from the old
pals, the people who crowded
around and made him feel im
portant. Where are they now?
We are approaching Christmas.
It is doubly hard for shut-ins
to have no attention from friends
at Christmas. If any of your
was tnis writ
er's belief that
Byrnes, who
had done a
great job as
secretary of
state, had been
eased out be
cause of friction
and j e a lousy ,
which even&-,;
then was evi
d e n t between
the two men.
Jimmie Byrnes, however, con-
lonHino that hp rpsienpd Tiurelv
because of ill health, sent Tru- But simultaneous with the de
man a carbon copy of his letter Parture of the west coast T-men MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
to me. Ana iruman sent mm m ........
reply a significant letter which Los Angeles for Washington one
ignored the issue of why Byrnes Harry Sackman, a certified pub
resigned, and dwelt instead on lie accountant, since then in
Byrnes' conversion to dixiecrat- dieted by Los Angeles county.
j6m, Sackman had been in charge
"I have read your Washing- of the gambling ring's books and
ton and Lee speech," Mr. Tru- hurried east for the purpose of
man said, and then went on to getting his gambling bosses out
comment on the manner in me soup, in wasmngton ne
"Don't tell me my job!"
Mystery of Yugoslav Hero
Solved; Deal With Tito Pends
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
iiP) Foreign Affairs AnaiysU
The mystery of the voluntary exile in America of Ivan Mes-
which Mr. Byrnes was deserting conferred with Ted Hayes for- dinlom!,Hc lick.tack-toe with an anxious Marshal Tito, has
mer neaa oi tne international r . r ,
the political philosophy of Roos
evelt and Truman. As an after
thought, the president wrote at
the bottom of the letter the fol
lowing postscript:
"I now know how Caesar
felt," he said, referring to Bru
tus's famed stab in the back,
"when he said 'et tu, Brute
sweepstakes in Mexico City. ces ",y . .' u u a a
' The dynamic Mestrovic, who now is head of the department
A" , ' f sculpture in Syracuse univer-
sity, came down to New York In short, Mestrovic Is one oi
City and we got together for a Yugoslavia's great men whose
long talk in which he "told all." name is honored in every home
I reported a previous conver- in the country. Tito is battling
sation in this column, but he &ty Moscow for the life of
was cautious and reserved then, his regime, and he needs the
So should I be if I were match- support of folk like Mestrovic.
ing wits with Tito. The sculptor puts it a little
The Yugoslav dictator has Qi"ereni;?;' ne """"
Deneve LILU inctina iimi any yci-
gotten man." He
needed sympath
etic and under
standing friends.
"W here are
they now?" he
asked himself.
"Where are the
disciples? Where
is the Messiah?"
John sent
messen g e rs to
of The Guarantee Finance Com
pany were seized in Los Angeles,
various papers were found link
ing the California gambling ring
to Ted Hayes' old organization
in Mexico City, including one
When Mr. Byrnes replied to telegram in which the Mexican
this letter, he addressd himself sweepstakes asked for $7,000.
chiefly to Truman's postscript. Hayes, no longer with the
XJa ovnlolnprl at KfimP lenSth MovlVon cuoondatac
that he did not consider himself merly associated with' Ed Flynn, been s 6 ! n d ' " g
party, but remained a devoted He is now with the federal
security administration in Wash
ington. When queried about the
Sackman visit, Hayes stated that
Sackman had conferred with
him about the tax case but that
he had told Sackman he could
be of no assistance.
supporter of its fundamental
principles. Then Byrnes polished
off his letter with this cracK:
"I am not a Brutus, and nei
ther do I consider you a Caesar."
find Jesus and r. n.o,.. n. s.irt former friends are going to spend
to ask him, "Art Christmas in prison or hospitals
thou he that shold come, or do or institutions, visit them if you
we look for another?" can. Remember them at Christ-
. , mas time.
Christ understood his discour- ..j was sick and , ,
agement. He sent this message and visi(ed me are word f
Kailr in Toh n "Thn hlinrt ro. . " . .
GAMBLERS EVADE TAXES
In the opinion of this column
ist, tax fraud and tax evasion
are now more prevalent than at
any time in years. This means,
of course, that those who do pay
their taxes have to pay more to
make up for those who don't.
There used to be one category
Apparently Sackman
other wires to pull and pulled
them successfully. For the sup
posedly airtight case against Ko
vey, Kogus, Rockwell, and Co-
bert was immediately dropped
back to John: "The blind re
ceive their sight, the lame walk,
deep and boundless gratitude.
Without discounting the value
mere usee . ' The treasury has done absolute-
of citizens against which the . nthia ,,
It
the lepers are cleansed, the deaf f an exchange o presents a
treasury never pulled
punches the underworld.
took an income tax case to send
saries to Mestro
vic the most
recent within a
few days urg
ing the sculptor
to return home.
Why? What
does the two-
fisted Tito want
found with .an artis
wno is oppusea
to communism'
In order to get the full sig
nificance of Tito's move you
must know Mestrovic.
This striking personality is
the bearded prototype of the
DeWUt Mackemle
sonal harm. Mestrovic does
recognize that his return home
would in effect be placing the
stamp of approval on the com
munist government and he
thinks this is what Tito has in
mind.
This idea is supported in a
dispatch from Istanbul, Turkey.
An informed source there states
that Tito is trying to come to
terms with Yugoslav exiles to
help him convince the United
States and Britain that he can
be trusted in his fight with Mos
However, Mestrovic has no in-
Only other development is Yugoslav patriot who always has tention of going home until re
hear, the dead are raised up,
that Los Angeles county has now
indicted Kovey, Kogus, Rock-
battled for liberty. Indeed, Mes- ligious and political freedoms are
trovic was widely known m his restored in Yugoslavia.
mong relatives, an exemplifica-
and the poor have the gospel (inn . lh. m 'in , )ho rh.ut.
preached to them. And blessed mas jrit one ,nto
is he whomsoever shall not be hospitalSi 1 n s t i t u t i o n s, and
offended in me. whereever the unfortunate may
Sometimes a man or woman be.
gangster Al Capone to jail, while weU and Cober As fa as the country as a patriot before he And in his mind the 0ppres.
Santa's Salary Garnisheed
Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 17 (U.R) The beard was the beard of
Santa Claus, but the voice was that of R. A. Moser, Miss
Bonnie Key said to herself in a department store.
She went to a lawyer and the lawyer went to a judge.
The judge signed an order garnisheeing Santa's salary, and
Santa went to see Miss Key.
Today he paid half the S25 judgment against him, for fail
ure to pay her wages as a waitress last summer, and promised
to pay the rest "soon."
SIPS FOR SUPPER
Cheerful Note
various underworld figures have
been caught in the income tax
mesh after all other avenues
failed. Today, however, even
the underworld is safe from in
come tax prosecution provided
they know the right people.
Here is a case in point.
Most notorious gambling net
work in southern California op
erates under the name of The
Guarantee Finance Company of
Los Angeles, which serves not
only as a respectable cover, but
loans money to bookies and acts
as a payoff center.
Recently Los Angeles coun
ty indicted 12 members of this
cover agency. Prior to this in
dictment, however, the federal
government through conscien
tious internal revenue agents on
U. S. treasury is concerned how- acnievea tame as a sculptor, m sion is symbolized by the case of
ever, no effort has been made token o whlch he was thrown Archbishop Alojzijc Stephanie,
to proceed with criminal pros- into Prlson bV Hitler's minions head Df the Roman Catholic
ecution aJter tne Nazi invasion of Yugo- church in Yugoslavia, who in
(Copyriiht 1819)
slavia during the world war.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
The More Hal's Wife Recalled
Deeper He Got in Doghouse
By DON UPJOHN
Today we got a letter from our plumber. It came in one of
his regular business envelopes and we all know what a letter
from a plumber means when it comes along in one of his regular
business envelopes. But as a rule these come along right after the
first of the month. Naturally we thought he might be a little hard
pressed for
Christmas cash Y
and was rushing (f
them out a little
parlv. But. anv-
way, with the (ft Tf
usual trepida- V,J V,
tion suffered on
opening of letter
from the plumb
er we tore this
one open and
was greeted by
one of the hap
piest surprises of the season
It was just a letter of Christ
here where Joe comes from.
mm
Yesterday New York made a
30 per cent saving on its water
use by everybody refraining
V'i from taking a bath. It shows
i that fhp hitr town is still as nrn-
Don llplohn
I that the big town is still as pro
vincial as those in the outlands
and that the other 70 per cent of
the folk still take their baths
on Saturday night like all good
Americans have been doing since
the days of the bath in the wash
tub in the kitchen. What New
York needs is half a dozen
mas greeting and wishing us mornings like we had here to-
well for the new year. That is day.
probably one of the high spots Our Chris Kowitz, Jr.. was out
of the Christmas season and we carlv tnls Bnd sl,cceeded in
plan to put this letter well up putting over another typical
on the tree with a star attach- chris Kowitz, Jr., stunt. He
ed to it, maybe. We hope the was waiking along High street
one we get New Years will be and happened to glance up at the
the same. courthouse clock. As he was
; " . . looking at it he saw the hand
The Oregonlan tins morning move. and then it sloppcd.
In its sporting section referred promptlv a fcw minut before
to "Portland's Joe Kahut. That 6 a m ,Tve neard abou( ,he
was when he won. Yesterday, gllv lv cn,URh to sl
when there was some doubt as clock ., sald chris and now
to whether he d bowl over his j believe it."
San Francisco challenger he was
referred to as "Woodburn's Joe State Treasurer Pearson pick
Kahut." If Joe should happen cd a bad time to distribute his
to punch his way to the cham- million dollar checks which
pionship some day, as we oil caused such a furore. They'd
hope, Portland will grab him sure come in handy in the holi
for fair but we all know up day season right now.
Hap Hazzard Was Haphazard
Los Angeles, Dec. 17 (fT William B. (Hap) Haizard was
In jail today on suspicion of burglary.
Police accused him of entering a cocktail lounge after hours
via a skylight, drinking three bottles of beer, wrestling an
hour with the cash register trying to open same, drinking
three more bottles of beer, finally lugging cash register out
side and hiding it.
During all this he failed to notice he had dropped his
wallet, with his Identification, officeri said.
A haphazard job, they called it.
By HAL BOYLE
New York, W) Frances shook me awake this morning and
said:
"All right, Rover, you don't have to try to hide from life to
day. I've got an idea for you to write about. It's a nice easy
idea, too."
I controlled my enthusiasm, all."
There had been a certain wife- "Then vou must not be able
the west coast had caught four ly tone in her voice a tone she to count over nine!"
oi tnese Dig-lime gamoiers in uses on oays wnen i am sume- e fartner sj,e got jn
of tax fraud. band.
Governor Warren's forthright "What's your big idea, dear?'
California crime commission was I asked
responsible for the original clue. "Isn't it about
The crime commission had seiz- this time of
ed some of the gamblers' books year that people
and turned them over to the T- like you write
men. one of those so-
Before doing so. however, the called funny
California crime commission pieces about
specifically asked the U. S. New Year reso
treasury whether it would be lutions?" she
willing to cooperate in cleaning said,
up the California gambling rack- I couldn't see
et, and got an affirmative an- what was com-
swer. ing tut I could
Accordingly. T-men Dan E. in it ,itn't eood.
Goodykoontz, internal revenue "Well, it's a week or two early
intelligence agent for San Fran- for that," I said, "and besides I rtnrii FCllfllAA
pi.nn DnInu tj 1 ,i .- . . !1 f olnnff w -' ' ' Wlwri
,mi,ti auuutei in- haven t any maicimt
tellegence agent, and Walter M. that line."
Campbell of the chief counsel's "I'll save you a trip to the
office in San Francisco, got busy puolic library," said Frances. "I
The evidence they assembled ap- think I have all the material you
peared conclusive. need." '
she left the room. When she
in lain, ihe Guarantee Fin- came back she was thumbing
1946 was convicted by a people's
court of sponsoring4 an organiz
ation of terrorists and was sen
tenced to 16 years in prison
where he is now. This case stir
red the whole civilized world at
the time.
Stepinac and Mestrovic have
been great friends for years. So
strong is the bond between these
two that the sculptor is making
the release of the archbishop a
requisite of compliance with
Tito's pressing invitations to re
turn home. Mestrovic speaks
firmly, though without heat, re
garding the situation.
"I have no prejudice against
Tito," he told me, "Nor do I
her wish to harm the interests of mv
memory book the deeper I got country which commands my
in the doghouse. love and loyalty as much as
"And you promised to eat and Tito's. My sole intention is to
drink less, and " illustrate the case of a just man
"Didn't I go on the wagon six and the errors of people's courts,
times?" "Hovever, the freedim of con-
"Didn't you fall off seven science and the, respect of hu
times?" man dignity, which the people
"Didn't I go on a diet four claim, do not exist at present,
times?" My sympathies are withTitoeven'
"Yes you lost a total of 35 now when he has taken a stand
pounds in four tries and gain- against Moscow in defense of
ed 40. At that rate you'll weigh the independence of the coun
208 pounds by the end of 1969." try."
I put the catalog of broken So the next move is up to
vows in my pocket after break- Marshal Tito the release of
fast. Archbishop Stepanic.
Picture of Ruth Aberle
To the editor: The rescue of the little girl from Kelso, Wash.,
was an event which deeply touched the hearts of all good Ameri- s
cans. In these troublesome days of worry and strife the world
over, it is truly wonderful to know that a human soul Is of such
ImnAnna 4Kot hlmHr, nf men kalA ttnna t,r,4 rn,,aVi
... uu.jja.iy naiea m ns m- small notec-ooK in wiim., tneir long search to a success- . T : J 7
come-tax return $248,000 paid time to time she chronicles the fuJ cnd faith appeared in the photo-
to "Lopez," and another $108,- hits runs and errors (all mine) ' graph published on the front
000 paid to "special." No further n our marital life. 4KBut ,?Uch 85 ,W i , page of the Capital JournBl on
explanation of these huge ex- -TYke your head out of the he girl's own pluck and learn- Friday, December 16th.
penditures was given, but it ap- blankets," she said. "Let's look J heT mhJr tw 11 AbVe the head y0Ung
peared from treasury investiga- a the record, Rover." must f,lwayf "member that she Ruth.s mother is what looked
tion that $108,000 was paid to "Pan I have an aspirin first?" " wc" ? "'ue like the sign of the cross, a sym-
runncrs, and that the $248,000 to "Take two You'll need 'em!"
"Lopez" was probably paid for She opened the notebook,
police protection. "On last Jan. 1st it says here
The gambling company's 1947 you promished to get home for
income-tax return was some- dinner on time every night in
what similar, with $247,000 paid 1949. Do you know how many
to "Lopez" and $109,000 paid times you've been late?"
to "special." "Maybe 25 times?"
After preparing what they "No. 138 times.
wno looKea tor ner neia tneir hoi nf the salvation
faith- GRETA ASH
And a startling proof of that 1960 Market St., Salem.
Married Women in State Jobs
,Io the Editor: The . . . married women in state positions
whose husbands earn two, three or more hundred dollars a
month should all be ousted, that newcomers in Oregon might
J. THOMAS
Route 7, Salem
Praise for Fire Department
considered an airtight case, the It says here also that we have one member in the family working
west coast T-men came to Wash- would dine out at a different
ington where they recommended restaurant at least once every
the prosecution of Marvin Ko- week. How many do you think
vey, Albert Kogus, Harry Rock- we've been to."
well and Phil Cobert. the chief "Oh, 27 certainly."
partners of The Guarantee Fin- "No, just six-unless you want To the Editor We wish to publicly thank the Salem fire de-
ance Company. to count that hotdog you bought partment for their promptness in answering our call and the ef-
In Washington, a treasury con- me in the orange room at Ned- ficiency in, which they handled the fire at our bowling alleys,
ference took place between the icks." The damage in our pin room was held to a minimum and the
three west coast T-men, togeth- "You also promised we'd see care the firemen exercised even prevented smoke damage up-
cr the Charles Oliphant, general a new play or movie. What do stairs to the alleys
counsel of internal revenue: W. you think the total boxscore is The Salem fire department isa credit to the city of Salem.
H Woolf. head of the inteli- on that?" CAPITOL BOWLING ALLEYS
gence unit; and Riley Campbell, "So many I can't recall them Milton Haxtwell, Manager