16 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 1950
Eight-Dollar Words Help
Washington's 'Gobbledegook'
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Washington, Jan. 3 U-R Anyway you spell it, "gobbledcgook"
is a horrible word.
And it's becoming more horrible by the hour in Washington.
Government reports these days come up with such flowery
Dhrases as "this pragmatic view." "put forward this idea of bal-
1 ance so cogently," and "while
i this is a reductio ad absurdum
It's enough to send a person
to Webster.
In fact old Noah himself
doubtless would reach out of his
grave and split the nearest in
finitive if he knew what was
going on.
The latest shover-around of
eight-dollar words was the coun
cil of economic advisers.
It came out with a learned
booklet of 38 pages, but it took
several of our best men eight
hours each to arrive at the con
clusion that the sum-subtance
was that Mr. Truman's economic
advisers said cooperation be
tween government and business
can pave the way to a steadily
expanding and stable economy.
I hope that our President read
the press digests and not the
text of the complicated report.
Ttake this sentence:
"The first trend in the atti
tude of government toward
business seems to the council to
be this: The doctrine of secular
stagnation no longer finds place
in any importvuolic circle with
which we are familiar," that
means, er . . .
Everybody around here talks
about the gobbledegook but no
body seems to do much about it
except Howard Lewis.
Howard is a scholarly gent
who conducts a column for the
Washington Times-Herald.
He's also about to conduct a
spelling bee among government
workers come Jan. 27. There'll
be prizes, but no simple words.
Just the big words government
bosses throw at the poor kids
who come to Washington, think
ing they know how to spell.
Howard Lewis pictures the
new girl from Urich, Mo., com
ing into the office of so-and-so
in the Interior department. She
gets out her pad while the boss
dictates something like this:
'Dear Mr. Smith comma the
first echelon of intransigeancc
regarding methodology of dimin
ishing integrated stuff and line
criteria has proved effectuatively
rational semicolon theref ore this
office suggests, no make that this
office directs placement in sug'
gestivity of over-all framework
on top management level know
hyphen how comma stipend to
be adjustable with line function
comma having regard for auth
oritarianism in spear-heading
spade hyphen work period para
graph implementation of present
ly employed technique in the
opinion of this office will serve
to provide motivation . . . etc."
And you can check the spell
ing, yourself. I'm going out to
lunch.
Emll Janning
Emil Jannings
Dies of Cancer
Strobl, Austria, Jan 3. U.F9
Emil Jannings, veteran German
screen actor, died last night at
his home here.
He was 63.
Jannings, who won a Holly
wood "Oscar" in 1929, had been
suffering from cancer of the
liver since mid-December. He
came to Austria in early 1948
after a German denazification
court cleared him of any Nazi
taint despite his film work dur
ing the Hitler regime.
He was best remembered in
the United Stales for his silent
screen role in "The Way of All
Flesh."
Jannings was born in Switzer
land of German parents. He ran
away to sea at 14, tried farming
for a while and finally joined a
German group of strolling play
ers. He made his first film in Ger
many in 1014, but did not
achieve fame until he co-starred
with Pola Negri in "Madame Du
Barry." His next film, "Ann
Boleyn", starred him as Henry
VIII and he became an Ameri
can box office success as "Deception."
Jannings went to the United
States in 1925. In addition to
"The Way of All Flesh," he
played character roles in "A
Story of Old Egypt," "The Street
of Sin" and "The Sins of the
Fathers," among others.
But with the advent of talkies,
Jannings left Hollywood for
Germany in disgust.
"The talkies talk too much,"
he said. "They are becoming
a cheap substitute for the stage.'
Nevertheless, he made a talkie
only a year later in Germany.
It was "The Blue Angel," a
smash hit which introduced
Marlene Dietrich to film fans.
Thereafter, Jannings made an
average of one film a year, even
after the outbreak of the war.
Jannings took out Austrian
citizenship when he came here
in 1948.
Eight-Year-Old Draws
Traffic Citation
Los Angeles, Jan. 3 (F) Rob
ert Smith has a traffic citation
today although he is only
eight.
A policeman ticketed him for
crossing a street in the middle
of the block.
"!"' i """ '' M .
First Premier Dr. Moham
med Hatla (above) has been
appointed by President Soe
karno as first Premier of the
newly -formed nation, the
United States of Indonesia.
Puts Pressure
On New Guinea
Jakarta (Balavia), U. S. I.,
Jan. 3 iP) President Soekarno
declared tonight that New
Guinea "must" come into the
United States of Indonesia before
the end of 1950.
This emphatic statement ap
peared to be part of a persistent
campaign to wrest the western
part of the island from the
Netherlands. The other part is
administered by Australia under
a United Nations trusteeship.
"Before the sun sets on the
year 1950," said Soekarno, "New
Guinea must come into the U. S.
I."
He was repeating the Indone
sian claim in Dutch New Guinea
Central Utah Has
Slight Tremor
Ogden, Utah, Jan. 3 (U.PJ A
slight earthquake jarred North
Central Utah early Monday af
ternoon. No damage or injuries
were reported.
The temblor was reported at
12:53 p. m. from both Ogden and
Logan. It lasted about 30 sec
onds. An announcer for radio sta
tion KLO in Ogden said that the
shock was "decidely" notice
able in their studios on the
seventh floor of the Ben Lomond
hotel.
"It felt like someone moving
something heavy in the hotel,"
he said, "but when calls started
coming in, we realized what it
was."
Mclvin K. Jennings of the
Salt Lake City staff of United
Press, visiting his parents' home
just north of Ogden for the
nolidays, said that the shock was
pronounced enough to shake the
ornaments on a Christmas tree.
3 Indians Die After
Drinking Anfi-Freeze
Madras, Ore., Jan. 3 W) Three
Warm Springs reservation In
dians are dead and two recover
ing in a hospital today from a
New Year's day drinking bout
with alcoholic motor anti-freeze.
J. W. Elliott, superintendent
of the reservation agency, said
Bill Walsey died Sunday night
and George Charley and Wesley
Spino died yesterday at the
agency hospital. Recovering at
the Redmond Medical-Dental
hospital are Bill Moses and Jack
Puckta.
Elliott reported the holiday
party was a stag affair. He dis
closed no other circumstances.
IT'S A GOOD OLD FASHIONED . . .
before several hundred Moslem
leaders at an observance of Mo
hammed's birthday, in the presi
dential palace.
'Little Mo,' Coonskin-Capped
Master Start Missouri Trek
Santa Fe, N. M., Jan. 3 (U.R) A one-man pack train, featuring
Little Mo, the Missouri mule, shoved off up the Santa Fe Trail
Monday.
Edwin H. Gallinagh, Kansas City advertising man who will
walk to Independence, Mo., and Kansas City with the miniature
animal, left this old city yester-
day afternoon.
He plans to pass through Kan
sas City on June 3rd, the open
ing date of that city's centennial
celebration. The trip will end
at Independence, the eastern end
of the Santa Fe trail and, inci
dentally, the home of President
Truman.
Actually, Gallinagh and the
photogenic mule started Sunday
when both animal and master
were blessed by a Catholic priest
in true wagon-train style. The
proposed January 1 start was
passed when Gallinagh discov
ered that Santa Fe trail cara
vans did not travel on Sunday.
Man Falls Five Floors;
Lives to Tell About If
Havana, Cuba. Jan. 3 (U.R)
Harvey Karl But sky 37 of De
troit, Mich., fell from a fifth
floor window of the Hotel Pres
ldente New Year's eve and lived
to tell the story
He was reported recovering
in the Anglo-American hospital
today. The composition roof of
the hotel restaurant beneath his
window broke his fall and un
doubtedly saved his life. He had
lost his balance while opening
the window.
Mrs. Butsky, the former Doro
thy Wallace of Arlington, Tex.,
is under treatment for nervous
collapse.
The mule, which has already
been seen by thousands of per
sons at the Missouri State Fair
and the American Royal Stock
show at Kansas City, stands
35 inches high and weighs 200
pounds.
Originally owned by Fred
Wilmot of Richards, Mo., he was
sired by a Guatemala donkey
and mothered by a registered
Shetland pony.
Gallmngh said mule men at
the fairs proclaimed him as the
finest specimen of a small mule
they've ever seen.
Gallinagh, spoiiing a beard,
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coonskin cap and long pioneer-
style haircut, admitted that the
trip is purely a publicity stunt.
In addition to publicizing the
centennial, he also hopes to pro
mote the proposed Hary S. Tru
man foundation at Indepen
dence. However, he said, "I am also
interested in establishing once
and for all the backbone of the
old trail which was long the eco
nomic lifeline of Kansas City."
Guided by an old map which
was approved by President Mon
roe in 1825, he plans to make
over-night camp stops at forty
separate watering points where
he will plant a centennial flag,
In addition, he will take part in
festivities along the route and
gather data for historical articles
about the trail.
Gallinagh planned to travel
out the old Pecos trail. He hopes
to travel about 10 miles per day
and plans to leave New Mexico
from Clayton in about a month
From there he will cross the
Oklahoma panhandle and Kan
sas. Little Mo will carry a small
pack of groceries for off-trail
stops. Mrs. Gallinagh will drive
the provision car along the mam
highways.
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