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BY BECK
Recollections
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Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, January 3, 1950
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HE'S chewing c , ' 7, -M
TOBACCO AND IT Jf I ! A
WASN'T &J LONG
A60 WHEN HE "
" 1 WAS JUST OUR
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come apart un
der her eyes.;
It was the day?
she was to sail J
for Italy with S
her parents,!
George and Hel
en Palmer, a
young news-!
paper couple.
Minn tnlrl 3
uionlic! aflfi
thc trip. To her ni nwi.
f 4
ML- ft
She grew more excited as the
household belongings were
packed.
"We going to Hitalee! We
going to Hitulee!" she chanted.
But by sailing day her en
thusiasm had waned. There was
a look of finality about the
apartment she didn't like the
pictures, the toys put away. It
disturbed her.
When the man came lo carry
away the last trunk in the living
room, Nina tried lo stop him
by sitting on it.
"Nina wanna sit here," she
pleaded. "Nina wanna sit here."
A Stormy Congress Indicated
The democratic 81st congress met today in the second
session. The house is composed of 262 democrats, 169 re
publicans, 1 American labor, with 3 vacancies. The senate
of 54 democrats, 42 republicans.
A rlnnhlp thrpat nf fiiihustpr Innms with thp administra
tion on the defensive on deficit spending and foreign pol- SIPS FOR SUPPER
icy.
Both the democrats and republicans are divided. Some
prominent democrats fear that deficit spending, especially
that for the "Fair Deal" will bankrupt the nation. The
southerners are expected to resume their fight on the
civil rights program.
There will be three messages from the president within
a week, one a "Fair Deal" annual one, on state of the na
tion, one on the budget and a special one on taxation. Cau
cuses are being staged to outline party policies. But every
thing foreshadows a stormy session.
Mr. Truman is expected to again demand a program
which congress has already rejected or ignored in large
part, with chances of but little of it being enacted, such
as repeal of the Taft-Hartley labor law, the Brannan farm
plan and tho $6,500,000 socialized medicine planall of
which are designed for 1052 campaign issues. A bi-partisan
economy bloc is lined up solidly against the tax hike
of $4 billion which the president will again ask.
' One of the first subjects on the program, as announced
by Senate majority leader Lucas, is the repeal of special
taxes on olco, which has already passed the house. Repeal
or reduction r-f some other excise taxes which are sales
taxes, on transportation, communications, jewelry, furs
and cosmetics are sought. Mr. Truman will insist that
corporation income taxes be increased to make up for the
loss of excess tax revenues.
: Bills to legalize the basing point price system, to en
courage home construction for middle income groups and
to impose fair employment practices in behalf of Negroes
and others by federal law are next on the schedule. The
house program is not definite, but leaders may decide to
take up FEPC there first.
Danger of Mill City-Mehama Road
' The North Santiam canyon country was given a warning
the other evening in the form of advice. The warning
came from Albert Bauer, general manager of the company
building the Detroit dam and retiring president of the
Portland Chamber of Commerce. Bauer appeared at the
Mill City Chamber of Commerce year-end dinner.
He reminded the canyon residents of a fact thoy have
realized, but which they can't seem to persuade T. H. Ban
field, stale highway commission chairman, of its merit.
The fact: Greatest need of the canyon for future develop
ment is improvement of the highway immediately west of
Mill City. The road between Gates and Detroit will be
paved this summer, so that link has been arranged for,
but not the stretch between Mill City and Mehama.
' The winding road west of Mill City forces heavy traffic
ftoitiK eaat to wend its way along the dangerous road and
then make the run up the hill in the center of the city.
Because that hill was slick Monday morning, a truck carry
ing trailers slipped back and crashed into a building.
As the roaJ cast of Gates is improved, heavy trucking
will increase, especially over the pass. All the while, how
ever, the present Mehama-Mill City road will become even
more of a danger.
Salem's Chamber of Commerce has realized the truth
of Bauer's warning on that road. At a fall meeting of the
highway commission, the Salem chamber had improvement
of the Mill City-Mehama road as one of four needed high
way projects for this section of the state.
So, the area is united in its belief that the Mill City
Mehama road must be improved if the North Santiam can
yon is to develop properly. But the highway commission
hasn't been convinced of that need. A combining of Cham
ber of Commerce forces of this section, plus county offi
cials, might make an impressive enough force to persuade
the highway commission of the urgency to improve that
road.
Morse's Position on Foreign Policy
Oregon's Senator Morse has correctly given the mid
west isolationist, Senator Wherry, a verbal whipping for
Wherry's attempt to break up the nation's bi-partisan
foreign poliry.
Wherry, who bleats and does little if nothing to the
credit of his republican party, announced he was unwill
ing to accent future commitments "made by bi-partisan
bigwigs." Wherry would like to wallow in' the mud of
party politics and bring the country's foreign policy down
with him to that level.
Senator Vandenberg, another republican, had the vision
after World War II to realize that the nation's new posi
tion of world leadership demanded a foreign policy above
the party politics level. He took the lead in creating a
bi-partisan foreign policy. That policy has been weak at
times and has been picked up by the Truman administra
tion without proper congressional support or appraisal.
Nevertheless, the joining of both political parties on inter
national matlois was the intelligent, statesmanlike way
to adjust policy for the count'-y's new-found position of
world leadership.
As Morse told Wherry, foreign policy must be kept
"high above (he level of partisan politics, so that we may
remain a united people in all our efforts to meet the threat
of Russian totalitarianism."
In other words, there can be but one. American foreign
policy not one, and Wherry's isolationism also.
Gold Secret Hidden in Duck
American Falls, Idaho. Jan. 3 (TV-Some residents nt
American Falls are wondering how they can retrace the
wanderings of a wild duck.
That's all they need to know tn he able tn say In Miter
tyle: "There's gold In them thar hills."
Young Reuben Butler shot a mallard drake the last day
of the season. He gave It lo a friend, Bob Lee. I.ee passed
It on lo his neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Sweet.
As Mrs. Sweet dressed the bird she accidentally spilled
contents of the gizzard and out rolled five pieces of raw
(old.
The largest nugget, she said, was as wide as the broad end
a toothpick and a quarter Inch long.
Said her 87-year-old husband:
"All my life 1 wanted to discovar gold. Reckon this Is
as elos mm wt will mi coma,"
t LICORICE AND HUMS
ARUUNO THE LIVERY
' GTARI E SO TUf OTUPO
..fL.Tm 'm kids would think
ZsJcpr ''''.'.'' , YOU WERE GROWN-UP.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND BY CLARE BARNES, JR.
Boycott of China by U. S. Would White Collar Zoo
Halt Commie Southward Rush rz
By DREW PEARSON
Washington As congress opens today, two important things
are happening to the policy which guides the foreign relations
of the U. S. A. and which in the long run either prevents or
foments war:
1. The British are giving us a double-cross in China at a
time when U.S.
treasury experts
say two billions
more will be
needed to bail
Britain out.
2. Congr ess
will soon begin
i c i s m of U.S.f
vacillation in re-Sl
gard to China, tM
It so happens
that the British
fe4
Drrw Petrton
To put it across, FDR invited
the nine power pact nations
which had guaranteed the sover
eignty of China to meet at Brus
sels in October, 1949. But there
was dissension, not only between
the nine powers, but inside the
Roosevelt administration just
as there is today.
Cordell Hull, then secretary of
slate, was personally opposed.
So was the late Hugh Wilson,
one of his chief advisers. On the
(Editor's Note: Columnist Don Upjohn is ill today, so his
"Sips for Supper" is missing, on the page. The Capital Journal
knows his readers join In hoping for a speedy recovery.)
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Even Children Know Something
Lost When Home Is Broken Up
By HAL BOYLE
New York MV-There is always something lost a thing you
can't go back to when a home is broken up.
And a child is as sensitive to this feeling as a grownup.
My goddaughter, Nina, felt that way the other morning as
she watched the iirst home of her life she's only two-and-a-half
years old
foreign office is recognizing the other hand, special ambassador
L-ummunisi government ust at a Norman Davis, later head of the
time when it will hurt the state Red Cross, together with Under-
department's relations with con- secretary of State Sumner Wel-
gress most. This is not intention- les, vigorously supported the
al, but rather because British in- boycott
vestments, British trade and the ,..', , .
prized British island of Hong- British Would Say No
kong require protection Thanks lo this hesitation and
Meanwhile Secretary of State dissenslon. the boycott of Japan
Acheson and Secretary of De- died aborninS- U Put into effect,
fense Johnson are engaged in a however, lt would have becn a
tug of war regarding our Chi- conclusive object lesson to the
nese policy, with President Tru- EurPean dictators that the
man stamping his foot on the mocracies could act together
sidelines and demanding definite Zamst aggression,
action, one way or the other. Today, our biggest problem in
Actually, a firm and definite any boycott of China is Britain,
policy regarding that heteroge- Even were the state and de
nous mass of 400,000,000 Chi- fense departments able to re
nese people speaking 23 different concile their differences, the
dialects is anything but easy. But British probably would not co
there is one policy which the operate. They have been strain
United States has never tried ng at the leash for months de-
namely, the tactics used bv lermined to recognize Chinese
ine Chinese against us.
Down elevator at two minutes after five
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Trygve Lie Believes Time Has
Come for Start of Peace Parleys
She didn't realize that she was
already on the big boat. So I
wrapped her up warm in a pet
blanket she calls "Lubby," and
carried her out on deck. I point
ed out the ferry-boats crossing
the river, and explained that
very soon the big boat she was
on would pull out and sail away,
too.
She thought this over for some
time in silence. Going to Italy,
she was beginning lo under
Italy was just a name that meant stand, was quite a different
going somewhere. But she was thing from going uptown to a
excited. department store.
"Wo going lo Hitalee, Zona," Soon after that all visitors had
she told her baby sister, Zona, to leave. As each member of the
who has just taken her first few parly left, saying goodbye, Nina
steps. '"Going ride on big boat!" grew more and more restless.
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
(n Foreign Affair Analyst)
Director General Trvcve Lie of the United Nations believes
communists and, as late as No- ihe time has come for East and West to get down to cases and
inis is the age-old policy of vemoer, Brnisn AmDassaaor try to settle their differences,
passive resistance coupled with Frank called on Secretary Ache- "if we have not made much progress during 1949 toward set
the boycott: and probably it is son with a flat statement that tling or adjusting the basic conflict that has delayed peace and
ine only policy which will work Britain naa made up its mind hampered the
either in Tuna or against China, to extend recognition. Acheson United Nations
Reversing Chinese Weapons urged delay, but won only a since the end of
It sounds so simple that so- scant few weeks. the war," savs
phisticated diplomats probably Reasons for British determina- Lie in his year-
won't consider it. But it has been tion to do business with the end statement,
used scores of times by the Chi- communists is the great chain of "We have at
nese against the Western World, warehouses and shipping lines least moved for-
and it will work just as effec- which have carried empire goods ward to a point
tively if the western world uses lo the Orient for half a century, where the
it against the Chinese commu- Also Hongkong would be forced world has a
rusts. to capitulate any time the com- right to hope
This weapon merely consists munists cut off its water sud- for a step-by
of cutting off all trade, all com- ply. So the British foreign of- step resumption
DeWItt MaekeniU
our new year. Remember how,
when we were youngsters, we
used to believe that if we wish
ed hard enough our wishes
would come true? If we can't
quite bring ourselves to believe
that now, still we do know this:
Concerted thinking by masses
of people may bring results.
The director general doesn't
offer any concrete plan for the
communist regime now.
(Copyright 1950)
Frances and I were the last to
go. Nina gave us each a kiss
peck on the cheek. Then she
made up her mind the whole
deal was olf and she and her
baby sister had better get off
the boat fast.
"Nina take Zona home now,"
she announced to her mother.
boxed books, the wall bare of "Nina take Zona home."
"But don't you want to go to
Italy?"
Nina's face puckered in tears:
"No wanna go Hitalee! No
want big boat! Nina wanna go
home! Take Nina home!"
And suddenly all of us were
crying together, crying for the
She was very thoughtful on lost fun in the home behind.
the way to the ship the Vul- Hitalee might be wonderful, but
unications, all contact with the fice figures it can save these in- of real negotiation between both step-by-step negotiations. He
Chinese and letting them stew in vestments bv recognizing the sides." Just P"l forward the general
meir own juice.
In one respect, this would be
cruel retaliation. For thousands
of Chinese would starve; there
would be unemployment, rioting
and upheaval in Chinese cities.
But it is the only way by
which the Chinese communist
government can be taught that
it cannot seize our consuls, im
prison our aviators and treat us
as the Japs once treated Formos-ans.
Furthermore it is the only
It's hard to think of any idea, like the preacher whose
finer idea with which to start business it is to preach against
sin.
Lie says the Mexican resolu
tion unanimously approved by
the general assembly in Paris
in 1948 continues to represent
the wish of the peace organiza
tion. This calls for the great
powers to renew their efforts
for peace. His idea appears to
be lo get any sort of settlement
as a starting point for further
SPECIAL DISPATCH
How Acheson Won Truman
On No Troops for Formosa
By DREW PEARSON
Here is the inside story of what happened at the all-important progress,
cama. I here was a small bon
voyage party in the Palmers'
stateroom, but Nina didn't take
part in it. She wandered about,
uneasily inspecting her new sur
roundings.
the home behind for Nina the
only home she had known had
been wonderful, too.
And Baby Zona looked up and
wondered if all grownups were
altogether mad, standing there
Then she demanded sternly: crying when they could just as
"Where big boat? Show Nina well sit down on the floor, put
big boat." their toes in their mouth and
Everyone laughed at that, really enjoy life.
'My Wife? Oh, She's Around'
Kankakee, III., Jan. 3 MN Police halted Roy Smith of
Detroit as he drove into Kankakee yesterday afternoon
and Policeman George Ujick asked him:
"Where's your wife?"
"Hack there," Smith said, pointing; to the rear seat. He
looked. Bjick looked. The rear seat was empty.
Smith recalled his wife was In the rear seat whm he
stopped at a service station in Dwiht, 30 miles away. But he
didn't know that while the car was being serviced she went
to the rest room and Smith drove off without missing her.
Sirs. Smith had telephoned Kankakee police and asked
them to stop her husband. Smith drove hack to Dwight to
pet her.
Hitler's Swastika Returns
Ghostlike to German Scene
Hamburg, Jan. 3 (U.Ri A pale swastika, once the sign boost
ing Hitler's "reich for a thousand years," is making a come
back in Germany.
It appears on walls, on tops of buildings, in telephone booths,
and even on some cuslnms seals.
Nobody knows why nothing is
done about it. his barn. In lfM5 he removed
The swastika signs and Nazi only to have the same sicn
slncans were washed off and re- Ihere.clcarly distinct from the
moved from the walls when the original color of the barn
way we can prevent the south- white House conference last week called to aiscuss me crisis in
ward rush of communism to the ne Far East- .
Philippines, to French Indo- President Truman himself presided over the meeting and
China, Burma, the Dutch East seemed just as anxious as the military to do something about the
Indies and India. strategic island of Formosa. c)i.,ii
Today, old-fashioned demon- The meeting began with a hat General StUwell had at-
strations by a few extra war- presentation by the chief of staff, lcnJP, "' . .... .
ships in Chinese waters won't Gen. Omar Bradley, and Un- But it had failed even when
- . . a th Philips nationalists sflll nan
mean more than a flea-bite to oersecrexary 01 ueiense a.eve - . what it has said before: The
S'ijr C canwelnrdeTn"; Tifey pointed out that Genera, J-e how it was possible to de- h.no f pe ee wouH seem
part of China with an arm5" MacArthur had urgently cabled "d China now when there was so ton, Moscow
i,LihfInd,;jit.WJIlt.ake h"!t0"," "bIe,Ct(.f Aeheson Informed the secur- "'.world revolution V the
h:,r .L" rM., r"B.."ti,uj "rr n : y council that Bnum would sa Mm'
Well we can't go wrong if we
always try for peace. But what
real chance is there of reaching
a settlement between the com
munist and the democratic
blocs?
This column still believes
to halt the southward rush of use of both U. S. troops and
communism, and the use of Chi- naval vessels to block an in
recoenize China in about a week After all, put yourself in the
na's own tactics in the form of vasion of Formosa by the Chi- ana xnai cruain aiso woum sup- " " "7-" "V"
a knwrnH kinnb-: u. i 4U t? j pori ieu inina ior a seal on l ie um mmo
J,7 t J S.'.de tl ?.edS-,.,.,u security council of the United you were meeting with successes
Otherwise most of Asia will that a large amount of money
gradually go under Moscow's be immediately made available
to Ihe Chiang Kai-Shek group
Nations.
in the vast and. important Asia-
Once the Chinese secured U.N. ,ic theatre.
recognition, Acheson warned, However, while the commun-
to speed the protection of For- h,avf fvt rif' to j'1" h.ave, J5"" oin. f ln
, bring the United States before the orient, their drive in Europe
na mosa. ., , , ... . , . ...
wing.
Boycotting the West
Th . i;t- : rui
...i ...i. . u j . " .... the council on charges of ag- not only has been brought to a
aun, a uujuhl wait dppuea oraoiev reaa a memo irom ., uw u..t u- : j .,1 ,
to the Western World in 1925. General MacArthur in which he 8ssion,f we occupy For- halt but has received setbacks in
Chinese students had been killed expressed the opinion that the m0a' ,. , . , u . . !" l! h"L ,1 e.rev0 "
by British marines, and in re- United States should take title 1 ' Un ? l how lm" JJ It'al. H Frf
taliation the foreign colony of to Formosa and protect It with Prtant the island of Formosa is ground n Italy and France
Shameon at Caninn w. hnv-n. a,,i, 1- . , t to us, Acheson said, m effect, there also has been a loss of
... pnm pn Tn cann an nrmv inr n ...0.
Kia.-.a B'ew 111 me sirceis. ah ground that there has been no " "" " ;' . "
food had to be imported Not .i9n. ,,., ... defense. He added: I don t
- - u(juin.j. yr. av.u iicnij cia it,' 1
a servant remained nn th ic. ttinMrnPn t? u: n.. inWK SO.
lanfi- could still hp Wpnt in Ampriran
led by the Chinese. As a result. Ma.-AHhnr ttifi( .hi nn th. and whether It is important European
Thus we have the peculiar
Acheson also pointed out that situation that, if Europe alone
Every morning you saw the hands , nan nf i.. ,naii thc Chinese communists may de- were concerned a point might
American consul swecnine his rf,,. ,..,,;,) r cide not to attack the island aft- een reacneo. wnere kus-
own oince ana tne Italian con
sul hauling ice on a child's ex
press wagon. In the evening,
war ended, but their space re
mained and left the same mark,
even if it is more feeble now.
In Celle, in the British zone,
a swastika became visible on the
weatlicrvane of a building. A
city alderman explained that
after tho war it was patched up
with a piece of sheet metal.
Wind and weather have done
their work since and the swas
tika is visible again. He promis
ed that this time they'll do a
good job.
At the Hamburg railway sta
tion one can see in brigiit sun
light a last-minute slogan of the
Nazi defeat, "holding out with
Hitler." The sign did hold out.
There's a thin coat of paint
in telephone booths over the
swastikas but that barely covers
them and anybody can see what
they are.
This is the situation all over
Germany and while German
authorities pledged themselves
to prevent any reappearance of
Nazism, the signs and slogans
er they get the rest of China sia would be willing to negotiate
consolidated, particularly if they Peace, mere seems to be little
Secretary of State Acheson sat ... iat tl,v will f more she can gain in EuroDe bv
I" WdKUll. ill nit- UVVI11I1K, .m 1 , . . ... - J - . -
the French consul mixed the !, ! u "lru"K" V"s stubborn resistance, reinforced sirong-arm meinoas. bhe has
salad, the British consul cooked
the meat and the Italian consul
fixed the dessert at a commu
nity dinner.
If the Chinese had been smart
enough to tighten this anti-western
boycott around other cities
instead of chiefly Canton, all
foreigners would
ousted. But, as usual, Chinese
factions rowed between them
selves, and the western powers
practiced the old policy of di
vide and rule
discussion which seemed to im- mim- .Hvir-o anH snmo n. reached a point where consoli
pr Prf-Slden,t Truman. plies from lhe Unitcd slats dation of her gains is in order
W hen the other side had fin- In thc end tne secretarv of if she is to Preserve them,
ished. however Acheson opened slate completely won over both The Far East presents quite
up with a few blunt facts. president Truman and the mil- another picture. China has been
He pointed out that Formosa itary overrun bv red forces. Corn
was not like Greece where the As a cornpromjse, it was agreed munism is "reaching for Burma,
Truman doctrine had been sue- 4. . ...ni .; rui-n- ir-i. Indo-China. Indonesia and nthor
have been auppiwsing commu- shek rifIes ammUnition, artil- Key Positions.
u iicidnpQ repons ierVi howitzers and other equip- Asia is the crucial theatre of
showing that Formosa was a enl to fight off an invasion of the moment, and the United
tiny overpacked island, full of Formosa out of the $75,000,000 States reported to be developing
dissident elements, and that, Pnnirrps vnlnd in it. lat a viffnrnn new nnlicv In halt
while Japan had mistreated the sjon. Also we will send about the spread of communism in
Today the reverse is true. The ormosan People for more than 20 U. S. military advisers to that vast area. It's said this
Chinese are now united under a
ruthless rule of communism, and
are about to divide Great Bri
tain and the United States
Or there is the case of a Bri- still arc there.
tish officer, who discovered that In Frankfurt, center of the U.
thc German customs seal on his S. occupation zone, the situation
luggage bore the once familiar is similar. In the so-called "corn
mark, the eagle holding the Nazi pound," where United States and
sign. Customs officials claimed allied residents are housed, there
they have no funds to buy new are big white letters on the walls
seals. bearing such slogans as "people
A farmer on the Baltic Island lo arms" and "rather death than
of Fahmarn bu swastika on slavery."
30 years, the Formosans hated survey the situation. policy will be backed by
the Chinese even more. Qne other important decision strengthened naval fleet in Asia-
For, when the Chinese reoc- matte by the council was to rush tic waters,
cupied Formosa in 1945, they Would it be nossible tn neen-
FDR Considered Orient Boycott """"'too a re'sn ot terror worse American military nelp to the tiate peace in Europe while the
Nearest approach to a West- lnan an'thing ever seen in Ger- French in Indo-China to help cold war continues in the Far
ern large-scale use of the boy- man'- fi8ht the communists. East? Maybe so. It's anybody's
cott came in 1936 when Adm. Acheson said he thought it This is the price to try to keep guess.
William Leahy, then chief of would be most unwise for the France from supporting Red In any event, it's possible
naval operations, proposed to United States to dispatch men China's bid for the all-important that at least small gains could
President Roosevelt that the 'nl a chaotic situation where seat on the U N. security coun- be achieved here and there, and
American and British fleets Trojan-horse revolt at any time c".. which carries with it the lot of small gains make a
blockade Japanese waters and couId end the la't drop of Chi- power of veto. big one.
cut off all supplies of oil. cotton, nese resistance.
copper and scrap iron. Acheson also opposed sending
This was one of the most im- military stall support to China
portant but least known chapters and condemned the idea of an
in American foreign policy, for American military man to run
if the blockade had been put China's defenses. He pointed
across it is no exaggeration to out that Roosevelt had tried lo
say that World War It probably do this, that Ambassador Hur-
could have been prevented. ley had recommended it, and
No Happy New Year for Him
Salt Lake City, Jan. S 0J.R Richard M. Ire doesn't think
19S (I got off to a happy start
Early Sunday vandals just about mined his ear. They
slashed all the tires, broke the side view mirrors, bent a
heater button and pulled out tha distributor wlra.