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4 Salem. Oregon, Thursday, December 29, 1949
Using Wintergreen's Platform
A week or so ago, Arthur Krock, Washington correspon
dent, discussing in the New York Times what made the
democratic party click in presidential elections since 1932,
decided that the answer was not altogether the personality
of Franklin D. Roosevelt, or republican me-tooism, or the
most lavish array of promises, handouts and official pay
rolls in history regardless of cost to the "beneficiaries."
Krock suggests that George S. Kaufman discovered the
real reason in 1931 when he wrote the book for "Of Thee I
Sing," and that it is life-long attachment to romance and
the tender passion which principally distinguishes latter
day democrats from republicans and has "won them sup
port from the voters, as enduring as their proved suscep
tibility to use power over the female sex."
Krock cites the recent romances of the 72-year-old vice
president and the 59-year-old mayor of New York City as
proof. He continues:
"When Mr. Kauffman ran Wintergreen for president on a
platform of love, and swept the country, he pretended to be
indulging in bi-oad political satire. But he is not the first
satirist who gave light treatment to a cosmic truth, though he
is one of the few who lived to see it demonstrated thus em
phatically. The democrats were pilling up victories long before
the vice president and Mayor O'Dwyer furnished this romantic
clue. But is it not possible the voters always sensed that demo
crats had in them this congenital and distinguishing trait?"
Since the Krock article was written President Truman
has made two addresses stressing the Wintergreen pro
gram of love as the solution of all the world's ills, especially
in his annual Christmas message. He called upon all
Americans to "dedicate ourselves anew to the love of our
fellow men." He continued :
"In love alone the love of God and the love of man will
be found the solution of all the ills which afflict the world to
day. Slowly, sometimes painfully, but always with increasing
purpose, emerges the great message of Christianity; only with
wisdom oomes joy and with greatness comes love."
Pearson's Power Plan Shorted Out
State Treasurer Pearson's idea to have Oregon build a
power-line for its institutions got a jolt when the cost
figures were revealed.
Bonneville power authorities were asked several weeks
ago what the cost would be to put up a power-line to tap
Bonneville power for state institutions. The answer was
given the state board of control this week. The answer
couldn't have been encouraging to the ardent public power
boys.
If Bonneville power were furnished all state buildings in
this area, Oregon would have an investment of $130,000.
The savings over present costs, using private utility lines
to bring power here, would be about $2,000 a year. The
saving could be increased to $6,200 if Hillcrest and Fair
view homes were not included on the power line.
A saving of $2,000 on an investment of $130,000 would
n't look good except probably in some boondoggle scheme
to spend state money. But during these days of rising
costs and tighter money, an investment with that saving
wouldn't be so attractive even to politically-minded New
Deal professors.
So Treasurer Pearson can dump his scheme into the
waste-basket for filing. This will be a disappointment to
those who would like to get a hold of the reins to put over
their Sweet(land) Deal for Oregon with lots of money
spent and nothing to show for it except some votes.
Flying Saucer Farce
Most people will agree with the conclusion of the airforce
after its two years of investigation that "flying saucers"
are just jokes, mass hysteria or misunderstandings of nat
ural phenomena.
The announcement was made in denial of a story pub
lished in True magazine that the saucers were real and
were from other planets an absurd conclusion not borne
out by facts. The airforce announcement said:
"All evidence and analyses indicate that the reports of uni
dentified flying objects arc the result of:
"1. Misinterpretation of various conventional objects. 2. A
mild form of mass hysteria. 3. Or hoaxes.
"Since January, 1948, sonic 375 incidents have been reported
and investigated. Assisting special investigators were scien
tific consultants from universities and from other government
agencies.
"Continuance of the project is unwarranted since additonal
incidents now are simply confirming findings already reached."
Most everyone has seen what looks like a silver flying
saucer. It is usually a plane flying among clouds through
which the sun streaks through occasionally revealing a
partial glimpse of the plane and imagination does the rest.
Unexplainable Milk Board
The state milk control board doesn't have to explain
anything to anybody, apparently.
In early December, the board held a hearing in Portland
on an application by Safeway Stores to sell milk in Salem.
The case was heard before Milk Administrator Ohlsen.
There was no explanation of why the case involving Salem
was heard in Portland. Nor was there any explanation
why a state agency should have its headquarters in Port
land when the Oregon constitution provides that public
institutions shall have headquarters in Salem.
The latest unexplained action of the board is a hearing
on the milk price situation in Roaeburg. For some rea
son, the board decided to hold the hearing in Roscburg,
the city involved. Why didn't the board do as it did in
the Salem case and listen to the Roseburg case in Port
land ?
But why should the board bother to explain ?
BV BECK
Parental Problems
WW&& NOBOOV'S SICK, SIR. THIS IS FOR WvMm?7
;m) MISS NANCY. SHE MADE SUCH A
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'"Wi PLAY' THAT SHE'S DECIDED TO MTf?SW-
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Two U. S. Enlisted Men
Remain in Communist Hands
By DREW PEARSON
Washington One American ambassador not likely to stay long
at his present post is delightful, garrulous George Wadsworth,
U. S. envoy to Turkey.
Wadsworth follows a schedule that runs his staff ragged. He
plays bridge until after 3 a.m., gets down to his office about noon,
goes out for
golf right after
lunch, sees call
ers at 6 p.m.
If an Ameri
can business
man wants to
see the ambas
sador, he is us
ually invited in
at six, but,i
finds so many
U 111 C I tclliei
grouped around
BY CLARE BARNES, JR.
White Collar Zoo
I I I.'L..lt
I 1 W&
1 I
Tin
Wrong Cause
By DON UPJOHN
We've heard several people complain the past few days of
having their digestive processes upset and having difficulty get
ting back to normal, attributing same to an excess of food for
Christmas dinner accompanied by too easy access to Christmas
candies, nuts, et cetera. It may be that's their trouble but we'd
think
formation concerning the wel
fare of Mr. Smith and Mr. Bend
er and to secure their return.
A message just received from
the American consul general at
Peiping states that he has at
tempted further approach to the
One month later, Gross prom
ised again: "The matter is again
being brought to the attention
of the highest Chinese commu
nist authorities at Peiping.
Another month passed. On
the martini tray that he can't October 18, Gross reported sad
discuss anything private. ly: "The consul at Tsingtao on
What drives Wadsworth's staff October 10, 1949, addressed an
really wild is his belief in strict informal memorandum to the lo
protocol. He demands, for in- cal communist authorities stress
stance, that no one of lesser in 'he humanitarian aspects of
rank leave a dinner party un- the two cases. This approach
til the top ranking guest has de- was without satisfactory re
parted. And since the ambas- sponse from the local authori
sador usuallv outranks everv- ties who were 'instructed' to in-
one else, other guests have to form the consul that they no
Drew Pearson
Inferiority Complex
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Holland Plans to Give Up
More of Her Empire
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
(CiP Foreign Affairs Analyst)
Two vears ago Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, in proclaiming
twiddle 'their fingers until 3 longer knew the whereabouts of new Partnership between the kingdom of the Netherlands
r m V. U W r Smith 9nri TVfl- Hannax SliQ mC UlUCIl rtllU IIWl 111V11CB, ut.wa. t..t kuwitiaugm
a.m., Ulllll 11C KCO UU UVJ11I 111C " ..... utllUtl.
as soon
that the whole
business is due
to an overdose
of Rita and Aly
whose affairs
have been com-1
ing along in I
quantities copi
ous enough to
annoy the
toughest stomach.
Advice on the Record
Spokane, Wash. U. Louis R. Greenlee was on his way
home with a stack of phonograph records when he lost
control of his car. Although the car was demolished, Greenlee
suffered only slight bruises.
tvery record was smashed except one tilled "I'll Never Slip
Around Again."
says, General Patton received
513,000 and General Allen $15,
000 by the simple expedient of
sending out the four letters re
ferred to. That's all very inter
esting but who in the heck in
these times wants to pay income
tax on an extra $15,000 or $13,
000? So we just toss same in the
wastebasket and take this oc
casion to advise the revenue
agents there's no use showing up
to collect.
We're still trying to fathom
just why the world should be We called attention in this
het up over this romance and column a week or so ago to the
its offspring any more than that fact that all of the restrictions
of any young couple. We sus- being thrown about the .taxicab
pect there have been plenty of drivers by the city council, while
babies born right here in Mar- they may be all right, are sim
ion county since Christmas as ply penalizing the present group
pretty and cute as little Yasmin of cab drivers for some offenses
and whose ma's are just as at- they never committed and pass
tractive as Rtia and with prob- ing on the punishment from the
ably plenty of more good horse guilty to the innocent. We have
sense. an idea taxicab drivers around
Salem are going to watch their
It took courage
inter pret its
signifi c a n c e
Colonialism or
bridge table. Latest word from the state
Once when a young matron, department said: "On Novem-
not in good health, tried to bfr2?' 1949' our consul general
leave a party at midnight, Wads- Pe'Pmg sent a letter to Chou
,..hi, ,,, h ; i i ....iu. En-Lai who is in charee of the
"Where are you going, darling?" foreign relations of the recently imperialism, or
NOTE A great admirer of established Chinese communist whatever name
the Arabs, Wadsworth's denun- '""ung mat ne cause
iii ii.. t : ..: an earlv investigation nf tho call
ous it is embarrassing. When to be m-de to the end " its ,WEf
Av. -ii n: xJL t that the men ho normittorf Tuesday the
xlolu uigiiiiics pass, inruugll is- . ' .......... . c, , .
tanbul, he is a frequent visitor communicate with their families United States of
.. . . fatmvinn iu.i i . Tnrinnps a. com-
at the airport to greet them. personal wei-
. . , fare"
NOTE What the state de-
NATIONAL WATER SURVEY partment is up against, of course,
The U.S. public health serv- is the impossibility of sending
ice will soon make a sweeping an armed force into China to
survey to determine the effects rescue two men. However it
and the Dutch East and West Indies, declared that
is dead."
to face the writing on the wall and truly
am
wish to
call it, is indeed
n its way out
Tuesday the
Indonesia, com
prising the rich
islands of the
Dutch East In- DeWI" """
dies, came into full being as a
sovereign nation. Thus was the hope that, as in the case of In
accuracy of Her Majesty's pro- donesia, the new group will re-
Dutch West Indies (The Antil
les) and Dutch Guiana (Surin
am) on the Atlantic coast of
South America. But even in
the case of this vestige of the
empire, the mother country is
planning a conference for the
coming April to consider the
granting of greater autonomy.
So this bloc in the western
hemisphere may be formed into
another federal nation, similar
to the Indonesian group, with
sovereign rights. Holland will
It seems we're in for a bunch
step for some time to come be-
ui iuubu i i . u i,h w .fore another mess is stirred up,
days as we ve just tossed into jf everi
the wastebasket a letter which
advises the same will accrue to Not much time left in the
us if we do ditch the letter, first half of the present century.
Otherwise, we're advised if we'll We rather guess anyone who has
copy the thing four times and lived through it will tell you
send the copies along to some that time has sure flown and it
friends inside of 24 hours we'll seems just like yesterday since
have some tremendous good luck this century started doing busi-
through the mail in the next ness. And before we know it,
four days. In fact, the letter it will be over.
'Me Missing? Just Hunting Job'
Ocean Park, Calif., Dec. 29 (IP) Cipriano Chavez, 107,
laughed when police found him and told him he had been
reported missing.
"Oh, I can take care of myself," he smiled. "I was only
looking for work."
His daughter, Mrs. Josephine Garcia, told officers yester
day that Chavez had been working regularly as a gardener
until this year,
"Then he was hit by a bus," she explained. "That slowed
him down a little."
Born in Sinaloa, Mexico, in 1842, Chavei came here as a
young man of 94,
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Figures Secrets of Universe;
Baffled by Income Tax
By HAL BOYLE
New York W) Albert Einstein is a man who plumbs the se
crets of the atom and the universe and yet can't understand an
income lax blank.
It is a measure of the humility of the greatest living mathe
matician that he cheerfully admitted in 1944 he had to call in
tax expert toi
does it with a fountain pen
scribbling strange mathematical
formulas on a pad of paper held
on his knee. And the scientists
go into their laboratories and
use those formulas to open up
fresh vistas of atomic power.
Einstein's life has bee"n a
paradox. As a child he was re
garded as backward. He is by
nature a pacifist, yet his dis
coveries led to the most terrible
weapon yet devised the atom
bomb.
war seems to me a mean,
of water shortage and water would seem that it VinnM nouncement demonstrated in main within the Dutch common-
pollution on the nation's health, have required a year to ask the tne maior' and bv far the richest- -wealth.
Federal health officials pri- communist foreign minister that Portion o "er empire. And what does such termina-
vately report that the lack of the men have the privilege of . , tion o "Colonialism" do to the
facilities to decontaminate river writing their families. There still remains that part motner country economically?
(oopy,iIllt ms, ot tne empire compiling ... Wen remajns to be seen
In the case of the United
States of Indonesia, all private
investments are guaranteed for
all types of property, and for all
time. That is to say, Dutch in
vestors can continue as hereto
fore; actually no Dutchman has
been permitted to own property
outright in Indonesia. Foreign
ers of all nations theoretically
have equal rights for purposes
of investment.
help him fig
ure how much!
he owes Uncle El
Sam.
But money al
ways has been!
a matter o fl
comparative ln-
differ e n c e lo
this "scientist's .
scientist." He
once used
$1,500 check
from the Rockfcller Foundation
as a bookmark and lost the
book. He gave his 1921 Nobel contemptible thing," he once
prize award money to charity, said. "I would rather be hack-
' ed to pieces than to take part in
Now at 70 Einstein, regarded such an abominable business."
by many as the finest mind of He has been a devoted and
our time, has crowned a noble eloquent fighter for freedom of
life with a new theory of gravi- inquiry and the dignity of man.
tation. "Let every man be respected
Its implications will be lost to as an individual and no man
the average man whose knowl- idolized," he said in modest ob
edge of gravity can be summed jection to the adulation accord
up in the phrase "all that goes ed him. "It is an irony of fate
up must come down." But sci- that I myself have been the
ence, in time, will have to recipient of excessive admira
choose between the theories of tion and respect from my fel
Einstein and those of Newton, lows through no fault of my
The theory of relativity, pos- own."
tulated by Einstein in 1905 at During a stopover in China
the age of 26, first shocked the on a world tour he refused to
water which most Americans
drink is shocking. A sudden
breakdown of these subgrade
facilities, they say, could lead to
serious water shortages in other
cities besides New York.
More than 10,000 new water
cleansing units are needed
throughout the nation to decon
taminate drinking water taken
from rivers and bring it up to
proper health and taste stand
ards, COMMUNIST CAPTIVES
Though the heat was taken
off the Chinese communists after
Angus Ward's release, the state
department is still trying to free
two other Americans from com
munist hands. They are Marine
MSgt. Elmer Bender of Cin
cinnati, Ohio, and navy chief
electrician William Smith of
Long Beach, Calif.
These men have already en
dured one icy winter in an un
derheated Chinese jail, but the
public clamor in their behalf
hasn't been loud enough to
arouse the state department.
Believing, however, that two
enlisted men are entitled to the
same protection as one of the
state department's own employ
ees, this column has investigated
the case of Bender and Smith.
They disappeared on a rou
tine training flight near Tsing
tao, China, on October 19, 1948
one year and two months ago.
Word reached the navy over the
Chinese grapevine on November
4 that they had landed in com
munist territory, were alive and
in good health. This was con
firmed by additional reports on
January 17 and March 22, 1949.
authorities there."
A communist agent, repre
senting the pair's captors, got in
Cabby Gets Oil-Checking Help
Norfolk, Va., Dec. 2p (IP) When the stout, worried gentle
man in the sporty convertible asked cab driver Oscar Osmund
the way from Little Creek to Norfolk yesterday, he got his
answer.
Not, however, before Osmund had pressed him into service
as an assistant in the greasy job of checking the oil in his
cab.
That job accomplished, Osmund led the gentleman and
his lady driver to a Norfolk ferry dock. He got a five dollar
bill for his pains.
Then he found out just who the assistant oil-checker was.
It was Vice President Alben Barkley. The lady driver
was Mrs. Barkley. En route to Washington, they'd lost
their way near Little Creek amphibious base.
Osmund wasn't impressed. '
"Who's Vice President Barkley?" he asked.
Town Was a Stinking Place
Wrightsville, Ga., Dec. 29 (IP) Wrightsville was a stinking
town last night more than 2,000 tons of fertilizer was on
fire.
The suffering citizens, their noses to the leeward, were
pretty burned up too.
The fire still smouldering today sent billows of smoke
high in the air and could be seen for miles.
The smell moved far afield too. ,
Before news of the fire spread, housewives searched for
burning rags and motorists stopped to inspect their cars for
smouldering rubber or ignition wires.
, Firemen yearned for a good, clean, old-fashioned fire,
Weekly States King George V
Threatened to Quit in "22
sent native expeditions into the
London, Dec. 29 (IP) A London weekly said today King George jungle after precious woods told
V threatened in 1922 to quit the throne as, one of his sons me one of his men had reported
actually did 14 years later. finding a record size anaconda.
The story in "The Recorder" said the cause was a personality The native estimated the size of
clash between the bearded king and strong-willed David Lloyd this monster at 45 feet a world
George, Welsh liberal leader who record if true.
So far as concerns the West
Indies, the main wealth lies in
Dutch Guiana, The chief prod
ucts are bananas, cacao, sugar,
coffee, rice, maize, rum, cotton,
bauxite, gold and balata.
However the country is large
ly undeveloped and its poten
tialities are unknown. In the
inhospitable hinterland there
are gold, diamonds and precious
woods, but the area never has
been fully prospected because
death or permanent disability
lurk everywhere for the white'
man.
The jungle hinterland of
Dutch, French and British Gui
ana are vertiable hell-holes.
Horror lurks at every step in
the form of poisonous snakes,
scorpions, centipedes, and all
sorts of insects. Then there are
vampire bats which attack while
you are asleep, and huge ana
condas which can crush a man
or animal in its coils and swal
low its victim whole.
Speaking of anacondas, while
I was in Paramaribo, capital of
Dutch Guiana, a Dutchman who
( t, ,:,u n.. ; j was then premier. The Recorder circulates large-
muw. n.in tne lV, latei IIIU . , 7v ir. Ih. lr, noi.l oto, f T H,,f 1 ..!.-.
offered to negotiate their free- -the late Stanley camwin y -" , ...uhu,
dom He reported that Bender who later as premier in 1936 don. It did not disclose the Surinam may prove to be .a
and Smith had been moved from was to usher Edward VIII out source of its story. Buckingham source of vast wealth on devel-
H"ia Tien to Nan Tn ChiZ of Buckhingham Palace-saved was considering whether opment. Whether the mother
about February 15 The navv the throne for George V, the to comment on the account. country will profit by that de-
deUvered a written document newspaper added. . Baldwin became Prime Min- pends on the structure of the-
asking for the" "lease TrecTived The Recorder said it can now 'sr 3-f f'red Pjeeted United Nations of the
S Pukn wUh 1 7 .Whghd Sef "me" orBewdleTdHe9I4d7Wm ZVZ w
ZPl ,h t?UCh..W'it' 1116 h'gh" haTpPe"ed u A A ,. As head of the government, their independence and it isn't
est authorities." However no Lloyd George headed a coah- he handled the crisis which arose sure at this juncture whether
urther word came through, so ion government formed after from Edwards vm,s determina. th wi be J,,,,
he navy turned the matter over the election which followed tion to ma u s .born Wa,lis o(h 8
.t. t..e state fen, imem. inav worm war i. Warfield Simpson. In anv event whoever Darti-
hpoan si snr p nf nntsa to Chi. -, j.j i ... ... j . . . . . y cvtlu' wnoever paru-
rving oeurge uiu nut get jii
nese communist officials. very wen wjtn Lloyd George,"
Finally Mrs. Smith on July the Recorder said.
23, 1949, appealed to congress. The Prime Minister was so
"As the navy has evacuated much 0f a dictator that his atti-
China, my husband has been tude became intolerable; and
left behind without supplies and King George V said: 'If Lloyd
medicine," Mrs. Smith pleaded. George comes back to power. I
"I have never been able to cor- shall abdicate'.
respond or sena mm supplies. Tne caiamity was averted by
I have two small children, one ,u .-,, t thu rnnrvativp
Edward refused to give her cipates in ODenimr nn the Snrin-
up and abdicated to become the am jungle country may share in
Duke of Windsor. great wealth.
First Half of 20th Century
Ends Saturday or Year Later
riae in a ricKsaw, saying:
I will not be a part of the
scientific world. That contro
versv seemed a lot of hullabal
lo to the average man then. It making of man a draft animal.'
seemed to touch him not at all.
But the atom bomb is a by
product of that theory and to
day it touches the life of everyone.
The truth is that this gentle
his father has never seen. My
children need their father as I
need him."
On August 4, Ernest A. Gross,
Assistant Secretary of State, in
formed congress:
Washington, Dec. 29 (U.R) You can celebrate the end nf the
t 11 nnit i . . ...
members of Lloyd George's gov- "K 1 mu7 oaiuroay nignt, or you can wait
ornment.
'At a meeting at the Carlton
club, led by Stanley Baldwin,
the conservatives broke away,
and in November, 1922, Bonar
"Dill- riinlnrvat; -nrt T I 1 - T-., A.,aPnmant
officials in China are doing "Lloyd George never came &n!tn!oma" Institution, agreed calendar which has no year "O."
until Dec. 31, 1950. Either way you can cite good authority.
aciemmc ana mainemaucai minds don't agree on it.
The Library of Congress maintains that the first 50 years of the
century end this year. L. B.
Aldrich, director of the Astro- The argument stems from the
physical Department at the beginning of the Grpenrian
Einstein takes in good temper
and jokes on his absent-mindedness
he sometimes has to re
minded to put on shoes when he
leaves his study and his fond-
dreamy looking little man is ness for wearing old clothes,
one of -the great revolutionaries When his wife on one occa-
of history. He is the mental sion objected to his baggy look,
architect of a new world now he quoted her Spinoza:
in its birth pangs. "It would be a bad situation
Some men have changed his- if the bag was better than the
tory with vast armies. Einstein meat wrapped in it."
everything possible to secure in- back.'
Freddie's Spelling Was Poor
Detroit, Dec. 29 (U.RiFreddie Walker, 22, got very Indig
nant when the two men in the car refused to take him home.
"It's a taxi, ain't it?" demanded Freddie, pointing to the
letters on the side of the car.
"No." said one of the men, "It's a police car. See, that spells
'police,' not 'taxi.' "
But Freddie persisted, and finally grabbed one of the halt
open car windows and tore it out.
Then the policeman gave him a ride. To the station.
with the library. One school of thoueht reasons
But the naval observatory that the first year A.D did not
says Dec. 31. 1950, is the cor- end until Dec. 31, year one
rect date. So does the inter- That you fix the date of the
state commerce commission's end of the first century on Dec
expert on figuring out time 31, 100; the end of the 19th
problems. century on Dec. 31, 1900, and
In London, the British broad- the end of the first half of the
casting company called off a 20th century on Dec 31, 19oK
big program in which it had a year hence. '
intended to review events of But others say the year 1900
the first half century. The royal was the firsl year of this cen-
astronomer ruled that BBC was tury and that the first half will
a year ahead of schedule, end Saturday night.
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