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V"4 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, January 4, 1950
Truman's Annual Message
President Truman in his 6000-word annual "State of the
Union" message, though more optimistic, simply reiter
ated the "Fair Deal" espousal of a year ago, especially
those concerning labor, social, farm and power demands
that were before congress all last year, and many of them
rejected. The message is aimed squarely at next fall's elec
tions, in which they will serve as campaign issues which he
will take to the people with the hope of re-electing a demo-
-"cratic congress.
The president is apparently resigned to continued deficit
' upending. He reiterates his old demands for tax increase,
for repeal of the Taft-Hartley labor law, civil rights legis-
' lation, the creation of a CVA and St. Lawrence project,
extension of rent control, extension of the draft, the Bran
nan farm plan, socialized medicine, but says little on econ
omy in administration to curtail deficits. He warned
. against "the folly of attempting budget slashes which
- would impair our prospects for peace or cripple the pro-
- grams essential to our national strength."
- The president's foreign policy program called for con
: tinued support of the United Nations, continued aid to
Europe, for economic and military co-operation with Euro
' pean democracies. He had little to say about the East, or
Formosa.
The message was more friendly in tone to his opponents
than some previous ones or of most of his campaign re
marks. But it did not in any way alter the administra
: tion's program that has kicked up so much opposition in
- the congress.
Mr. Truman's proposals foreshadow at least two years
more of big time deficit spending, perhaps more. "More
than 70 percent of the government's expenditures are re
quired to meet the costs of past wars and to work for world
peace," Mr. Truman said. "This is the dominant factor in
our fiscal policy. At the same time, the government must
..make substantial expenditures which are necessary to the
growth and expansion of the domestic economy."
Mental Illness No. 1 Problem
The United States public health service reports that
more than one million Americans were treated in hospitals
last year for "America's No. 1 public health problem"
- mental illness. Last year half of all hospital beds were
occupied by psychiatric patients, and the number would
have been greater had the institutions not Deen over
crowded. One out of every 10 persons in the country will need
psychiatric help at some time in his life. One out of 20
. will spend some part of his life in a mental institution.
Today the national mental health bill is $200,000,000. By
1956 it will be 250,000,000, says the report.
There is no proof, according to the authorities, that war
or tensions of modern life have materially boosted the in
sanity rate. The biggest single factor in the higher figure
' seems to be the better diagnosis and facilities of modern
. medicine. Cases that once would have been ignored now
,.are identified as mental illness and treated.
According to the survey, 12 states were spending less
than $1 a day on each mental patient, all in the midwest
or south. Another 19 states spent less than $1.50 a day.
New York with the best mental or "least bad" institutions,
spent $2 a day for each patient.
By contrast, the veterans' administration averaged $5.85
per patient in its neuropsychiatric wards. Private mental
. hospitals, which handle less than 4 percent of all patients,
spent $6.95 per patient.
Community Chores Not Attended To
Marion county didn't do as good a job as was hoped In
. the outcome last year in the Community Chest drive.
The state, as a whole, averaged 83 percent of the state
goal. Marion county raised 89 percent of its reduced goal
of $104,400. Eight counties of the 36 in the state made
' their quotas. The eight were Clackamas, Gilliam, Harney,
'Hood River, Lane, and Sherman. Populous Multnomah
, came a little closer to its goal than did Marion, with 90
percent.
.. Because it made its quota, Lane county, for instance, is
feeling pretty cocky. The Eugene Register-Guard in that
county comments that the success of the chest drive there
was "simply that Lane county has not grown too big for
its britches." What the Register-Guard has reference to
is significant: "We have not grown too big to have very
' genuine community feeling."
It is difficult to try to put a finger on the reason why
'Lane county met its Community Chest quota and Marion
county didn't. Or, for that matter, why Multnomah county
did even better than Marion. The effect locally, however,
Is easily seen. Community Chest agencies have been forced
to cut their services enough to keep within the curtailed
. budget, which was controlled by funds raised.
: For some reason, Marion county didn't get around in
.1949 to getting the community chores tended to. And that
- wasn't good.
Winning $84,000, Tax-Free, .
Terrifies Middle-Aged Couple
" Birmingham, England, Jan. 4 W Mr. and Mrs. Albert
Moxon heard with horror today that they have won 30,251
- ($84,702.80) In a soccer football pool.
"I'm terrified," said Moxon, a 50-year-old truck driver.
""We Just hoped for 500 (51,400) to buy some things for the
house."
f "I wish we hadn't won it," said his wife Clara, 40. "It's
too much. It could wreck our happiness. We have been per-
fectly happy for 29 years."
To make It worse the money is tax-free under British law.
The pool operators offered the Moxons a trip to London to
t be presented with a check for their winnings.
: No, thanks, said the Moxons. Let the postman bring It
! 'Nacilbupers' in Politics
l Washington, Jan. 4 (' Itep. Iluber D., Ohio), has coined
i a word to describe those who seek a union between republt
i cans and southern democrats.
t "Those who Indulge In this backward thinking should be
; labeled and treated as nacilbupers," Iluber set forth In a
: prepared statement.
He explained later that a "nacilbuper Is a republican spelled
. backwards." lie did not make clear how one of them should
be treated, though.
BY BECK
A Dog's Life
STARTING IN TONIGHT,
THAT PUP IS 00IN3, TO
SLEEP IN THE CELLAR. I'M
SICK OP HAVING 00(3 HAIRS
ALL OVER THS Rues,
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ALL OVER THS RUSS.S NSslX JUST ANOTHER 6, ,; i
1 FROM NOW ON, THE (. j) ' gO ( CMS OF MOM'S ;R
policy arouno here; y nresolutions J.fi
10 DAYS AHEAD
Front-page headlines In the last few days have featured
the story of the inter-cablnet debate over Formosa and Its
defense against the Chinese communists. This entire story,
however, was featured in the Washington Merry-Go-Round
on December 22, exactly 10 days before It broke in other
newspapers.
Pearson told in detail how General MacArthur bad sent
urgent cables demanding that Formosa be occupied by U. S.
troops and how his pleas were responsible for a reversal by
the joint chiefs of staff, who, however, were finally over
ruled by Secretary of State Acheson.
BY CLARE BARNES, JR.
White Collar Zoo .
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Leaders Determined to Avoid
Another Kickback Scandal
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Hottest problem facing congressional leaders as
they got back to Washington was how to prevent another Parnell
Thomas kickback scandal.
' This will be a major topic at a secret meeting of the house -republican
steering committee early next week. House GOP leader
Joe Martin will
SIPS FOR SUPPER
(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 boplng for a speedy recovery.)
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
What Does the Cut-Rate
Crystal Ball Say for '50?
By HAL BOYLE
New York W) Let's dust off our old S4.98 crystal ball, and
see what the year ahead has in store for us.
Well, this poor man's philosopher, sees 1950 as a less jittery
period than 1949.
The world will argue as much as ever, but it will sink with
more confidence
tell his lieuten
ants that house
repub 1 i c a n s
must immedi
ately rid their
payrolls of any
n o n - working
emplo yes who
draw salaries
from the taxpayers.
Also, he will1
do some blunt
talking about
LA A V i a.vu-j
Drew Fianta
The Brannan Farm Flan No
chance. Republicans are almost
solidly against it and the demo
crats are badly split. Meanwhile
farm incomes continue to skid.
Foreign Aid Some form of
President Truman's aid-for-backward-nations
(or point 4)
program will pass, but look for
a backward shift to isolationism
on Marshall plan spending. With
income-tax boost sidetracked
and excise taxes repealed, con
gress will have to look else-
t '''; I
a ;
it! fv
Night Watchman
mm
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members who
bring disgrace upon themselves where for money to balance the MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
pai ijr uy awtcpuug ouagei ana me iiiteiiesi spot win
be the European aid program. It
will be cut a billion.
Oleo Tax Repeal Will pass,
though modified to provide that
colored oleo sold in hotels and
restaurants must be so labeled.
Other Issues The important
National Science Foundation
bill, to coordinate and expand
and their
kickbacks.
Martin himself has set an ex
cellent example in keeping his
payroll honest. Since coming to
congress he has never had a
relative or a non-working em
ploye in his office, and last year
he refused to hire an extra $3,-
000-a-year clerk authorized by
'Chins Up for 1950-Year
Should Make Big History
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
(vF) ForeltD Affftlri Analyst)
About every other person one meets wants to know what the
into the rou
tines of peace.
Fear of imme-
dlate war will
abate still more
Nobody will
drop an atom
bomb in anger,
and more peo
ple will worry!
about loslngj
their jobs than'
fret about be
ing hit by an atom bomb.
Salesmen will have to work a
little harder to make their per
centages. The slogan "the cus
tomer Is always right" will re
gain still more of its old mean
ing.
IKrS. aUinonzea DV win, iu wutmimw aim caoiim --- - - . . . .
In the heavyweight boxing congress, on the ground that the scientific research, will at long year laou is going io orins u u. ,,
picture nothing will happen to extra clerk wasn't needed. last become law. However, the u don I neea io oe me K" "'"''
son of a
Speaker Sam Rayburn and
Majority Leader John McCor
mack also will privately warn
house democrats who have been
chiseling on the taxpayers to
Bl B07U
make anybody forget Jack
Dempsey or Joe Louis.
Wrestling, on the other hand,
will unveil a bright new star a
357-pound bearded savage from
Brazil who eats roaches and clean up their payrolls pronto.
wins matches by tying his whis-
gers around the other wrestlers' FHOTOING THE RUSS
throats. He will earn $135,684 The Russians have their own
during the year nine times as way of keeping an eye on Ame-
much as Dr. Albert Einstein. rican officials in Moscow.
In the literary world there Some time ago, Maj. Gen.
will be fewer fine religious John W. O'Daniel, U.S. military
books. People in good times attache in Moscow, was watch-
crystal ball for the second ses- prophet to know that the answer is "Plenty
sion of the 81st coneress holds There are some really Drigni spois,
little hope for public power and dirty storms
health Insurance enthusiasts, blowing up.
Neither the Columbia valley nor I'm reminded
the Missouri valley "TVA" bills of a flight I
stand a chance of enactment. The made during the
federal health insurance bill, war over the
savagely fought by the Ameri- wicked moun
can Medical association, is in the tain field capp
same boat ed by "the
hump" between
PROBING LOBBYISTS China and Bur
Hard - hitting Representative ma.
we naa more
Frank Buchanan of Pennsylva-
but there also are some
your chest and relax let your
self pass out. It won't hurt you
any."
I glanced at the man across
the isle. He had his chin on his
chest and was unconscious. I
thanked the lady, but shook my
head.
often forget the Lord. The most ing a gala military parade which . rhairman nf the house loh- than 30 f o 1 k ' "'
1 11 " - nn1,,Hnr1 n flirthf l. . Ik. Dn.1 ' ... .....
by Investigating committee, has aboard. As we approacnea tne
ordered lus staff to pull no hump, we encountered a terrible
Pension protection will be
bigger political issue than tariff ne old to Eniov a Pension." of his office window, he took a
protection. Since it's an elec- Bulletin news: There will be series of pictures
tlon year, congress will repeal 12 erroneous reports of Premier What General O'Daniel didn't
turn down an American offer of
$500,000 for his memoirs. (Win
ston Churchill will offer to ghost
write them for half that).
Some 12,873 bars will begin
putting 10-cent beers in contain
ers that looy less like a jigger
and more like a real glass.
Television will continue to
powder.
Who will carry the elections?
The crystal ball fogs up there,
but It 1 safe to bet the repub
lican party will end the year
with more new voters In Its fold
than new congressmen. So will
the democrats.
Among other things the crys
tal ball flatly predicts these
things (but you can't put too
much faith In a $4.98 mouth
piece): Bing Crosby's hairline will
continue to recede, and Humph
rey Bogart will be bitten by a
live panda.
General Douglas MacArthur
will return to America.
Both Notre Dame and Okla
homa will lose a football game.
(Don't write in to say I'm crazy
It's my crystal ball that's talk
ing). Don't expect a subway series
in baseball. The National
league winner: The St. Louis pretty much the mixture as be-
Cardlnals (Brooklyn Dodgers, fore for the average man. He'll
second). The American league remember 1950 as a fine year,
winner: Boston (Detroit, sec- and if he behaves himself he
My point is that if things get
too bad this coming year we al
ways can drop our chins on our
chests and pass out.
However, as the signs read, I
think this definitely is a year to
keep "chins up." I believe we
shall make the hump O.K.
Things in western Europe
look decidedly brighter from
the standpoint of the western
powers. On the other hand Asia
".'.'."'u'dt nHrai we're not coins to orntect , " m.. Prese n picture me
caught him in the act. And the ::. Vt S, I meriran Mn. PePle Became uuuuiistiuui. iu great communist offensive in-
popular items on the non-fic- included a flight by the Red ar
tion list will have such titles as my's latest planes. He was an-
now io i-sycnoanaiyze iout iu iuiuv, me n in nrnhln the his rn. i
Boss," or "You Don't Have to planes, so, leaning halfway out f slorm- mauy Kul ' ' " .
sure groups which operate
Capitol Hill.
"Leave your whitewash brush'
es at home," Buchanan bluntly without oxygen in the passen-
on it:- 1 .nn;n n
jelling aiiu uiuaiuiis. w
climb to about 18,000 feet
- , , , , til iiume. jautiwiicul uiuuuv w unuui wajjsu w-
e,0nfUrCOatSandbaby iii-V'JS tercrjEE assistant,, "in this investi- ger compartment and some
anybody but the American peo
nle
One big outfit that will receive mg io go unuer an
newsreels they took of him tak'
ing pictures of Russian planes
are to be featured in Soviet the
atres as an illustration of so
called American espionage.
NOTE Recent U.S. "spy" tri
als have shown that the FBI has
used the same tactics in watch-
frighten the rest of the enter- J S. tried to sabotage public housing.
xainmeni wona Dy us epocnai
growth. But commercial color in a building just across the
television like the rainbow street. ...
sensation was like that of start-
creases in size and pressure. The
trend of the battle of the isms
this session to block the exten
sion of rent controls.
This is the same lobby that
won't be ready to come inside
the home. Its programs will
grow better.
The stock market? Bullish
most of the way.
President Truman will grow
CONGRESS PREDICTIONS
. Privately, leaders agree that
the second session of the 81st
congress will set no records for
productivity or progressive le-
some careful attention is the The neat little Chinese hostess " ."'. '"
real estate lobby, which will stopped to ask how I was getting fflJS'6' beannB 0B
wage a vigorous drive during . . T allnw.d as how it wo" c"t ?'.. .
m-u..b, uuiu uiiin.a,ij aim cv.uiiui.ii-
was hard to breathe. She smil- cally, western Europe is making
ed and replied: reassuring strides toward reha-
"Just drop you chin down on bilitation, thanks largely to
American assistance. Indeed, as
this column previously has
pointed out, the communist drive
not only has been brought to a
halt, but the Red forces are de
cidedly on the defensive in ma
ny sectors.
a moustache during a Key West Station. " will be a cautious
vacation, but shave it off before
the fall campaigns.
That's what the crystal ball
says and you can believe it or
buy your own ball.
For the rest of it, life will be
session, with both parties play
ing politics up to the hilt and
striving to keep their skirts
clean for the November election.
There will be a lot of shout
ing about civil rights with an
eye on November but nothing
enacted into law except, possi
bly, the anti-poll tax bill. This
has already passed the house and
needs only senate approval.
ine lair employment prac-
Hatless Fad Blamed on 'Vanity'
Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 4 (U.R) A Methodist minister looked
over a passing parade of uncovered heads and believes he
has found the answer for the hatless fad.
Egotism, Is the way the Rev. Charles W. Hamilton Inter
prets It.
Preaching on the subject of "I Love Myself," the clergy
man said the reason so many persons go around bareheaded
Is that they couldn't get headgear on even with shoehorns.
He defined the species as the kind who believe nothing they
do could be wrong.
Writer Says U. S. China Policy
Contributed to Chiang's Fall
. ... j.-.: J nuinH linAtliiDlir fgwnrorl" ihr Pht
nH Th. s. T.n,.i. ww,. .hm.MnH fl mneh more than .. in "pioymem Pc- American repress wuvc. 1 1 v, .. .a -'
...III 4U. ..!! 11 nlrfo V, 1051 """--" '" "VU- neSB V,UIII1IIU1I1 uum.B u.t -- .-"
will uiuy nic lull aftiaim aa uum, i. luuunia uiv" "j
Hunger-Strike, Communist-Style
Calcutta, India, Jan. 4 CP) Nearly 500 communist prisoners
are on a hunger strike in various prisons here, officials an
nounced today.
Their demands: That the prisoners have a say in the ap
pointment of their jailers, and that the jailers get a pay raise.
'Ah-Yes,' 'Oh-Ho' Reactions
Given Capitol's Face-Lifting
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Washington, Jan. 4 U.R) The congress, assembling In a new
session, reacted with "Ah-yes" and "Oh-no" to the $5,000,000
fixing up job in the house and the senate.
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D., Minn.), for one, was impressed.
Ho liked the plush job done In the upper house with the soft
lights, silk wall covering and
rights measures, also will pass ment's struggle to retain power, Joseph Alsop, well-known writer
the house, but senate foes are on international affairs, charges in the current issue of the Satur-
prepared to filibuster it to death, dav Evening Post.
Thus, northern democrats can "They also contributed to the
boast in the next campaign that weakness, both political and
they were able to get this hot military, of the national govern-
potato through one house of con- ment," he continues. "And in the
gress, while southern democrats end they came close to offering
can boast about killing it in the China up to the communists,
other. like a trussed bird on a platter,
The republicans are strictly in over four years before the even-
the middle on this one and can tual communist triumph."
be counted on to outyell the de- Alsop makes the charges in
mocrats in the losing fight for the first of three articles on the
civil-rights legislation. Howev- subject, "Why We Lost China."
er, they are not willing to revise
cloture to back up their yells.
Here's the outlook on other ma
jor issues:
Federal Aid to Education
Already passed by the senate,
this hot potato will be revamp
ed in the house to meet Catholic
objections. One concession will
In the first, entitled, "The
Feud Between Stilwell and Chi
ang," he reveals the inside story
of how the American command
er's hatred of Chiang Kai-Shek,
abetted by a Soong family fight
between sisters and brother, con
tributed to the ultimate down-
all and the modern acoustics, senate chamber would resemble be an amendment providing bus fall of the national government.
Before the gavel fell on the
new session, however, there was
quite a to-do about the "halos"
which appeared as an optical
illusion over the heads of some
a cocktail lounge. He took an- transportation for parochial as The late General Joseph W.
other look today and said: well as public school students. Stillwell, commander of the
"I'm against changing the Taxes The house will pass China-Burma-India theater dur-
looks of the place. The old cham- legislation increasing either cor- ing the war, acquired a strong
ber was Just beginning to be- porate income taxes or taxing prejudice against the national
of the busts of former vice-prcs- come an interesting antique. As excess profits, but Senator government and in favor of the
idenU in the gallery level of the soon as we get an antique in George of Georgia and other bu- communists in the I9du s wnen
senate. John Adams among this country we destroy it . . . siness-minded colleagues will he was military attache to Chl-
them, and our people have to go put up a stiff battle against this na, Alsop says. The general's
But when the senate met at abroad to see, antiques." in the senate. political adviser, John Davies,
noon all that had been elimln- Social Security The social who had been vice consul in
ated. Over in the house side of the security expansion bill, already China in the '30's, had an "ap-
capitol, there was more fussing, passed by the house, will pass proximately similar" viewpoint,
According to Capitol Archi- Rep. James G. Fulton, (R., the senate in somewhat similar the writer adds,
tect David Lynn, it was all due Pa.,) spent an hour or so looking rm, with few, if any, of its General Stillwell, who was al
to a high polish behind the busts, at the new decorations there, "liberalization" teeth pulled. so chief of staff to Chiang, had
T 1 nPA Than ho mca nn lil ha 4hmmht Taf t-Hilft I Rm.ll Mfft a H i SIl ET1 I'd W'ittl the Gdl ITll 1SS imO
that at an early hour and very the place lookeu "almost as good chance, despite White House de- over military policy almost from the abandoned Mikhailovich,
Then in 1944, according to Al
sop, General Stilwell and Davies
drew up a plan for pressing the
war against Japan that includ
ed support for the communists.
The writer says the scheme
was approved by President
Roosevelt, although it was nev
er carried out because Chiang
withdrew his approval at the
last moment and demanded
Stilwell's recall.
Here is the plan, as stated by
Alsop:
"First, the Generalissimo was
to be pressed to form a coalition
government with the Chinese
communists. Second, what am
ounted to American diplomatic
relations with the communists
were to be opened by sending
an observation mission to the
communist capital at Yenan.
"Third, the supreme com
mand of all the Chinese armies,
including the communist armies,
was to be sought for General
Stillwell. And fourth, General
Stilwell was to be authorized
to apportion American aid be
tween communists and national
ists as he alone saw fit."
Alsop charges that, had the
plan been carried out, "it would
have been the story of wartime
Yugoslavia all over again, with
Chiang Kai-Shek in the role of
few senators saw It,
But no gutting around it, the
looks of the place have changed.
Sen. Henry Lodge, Jr., (R.,
Mass.,) was one complaincr. He
looked at the architect's draw
as the average movie theater." rnands for action. Congressional
"But," he added, "I don't see democrats want to save this one
why they do so much about the for an election issue to use
decoration and nothing at all against republicans. Senate and
about the hard seats. Some of house democratic leaders will do
the members don't have the some shadow-boxing for the
ing last year and cried that the proper padding."
newspapers, but that's all.
the time of his appointment in and the communists in place of
1942, Alsop continues. the victorious Tito."
Fireman's Holiday
Bangor, Me. (U.PJ On his day off, fireman Dennis Givren,
63, rescued four children from a burning house.
Moscow is straining every
nerve to consolidate its posi
tion and prevent any further de
fection like that of Marshal
Tito's Yugoslavia. In this con
nection there is widespread spec
ulation among observers wheth
er Russia is getting ready to in
corporate her satellites into the
Soviet Union.
Relations between Moscow
and Finland again are tense.
Russia has accused the little na
tion of harboring more than 300
alleged Soviet war criminals in
violation of the Russo - Finnish
peace treaty.
The Soviet charges have been
received gravely in Finland and
President Paasikivi in a New
Year's message to the nation
declared:
"There must be no enemies of
the Soviet Union in Finland, y
only friends." f
Of one thing we may be sure:
Communism will continue its
tactics oi harrassing the democ
racies bth politically and eco
nomically. Washington officials say one
of the critical Issues facing
American foreign policy in 1950
is that of preventing Western
Europe from encountering new
economic troubles when the
Marshall plan aid ends in '52.
Still another critical issue is
named, and that is the problem
of creating a program to halt
communism in the orient. The
communist success in China is
a body blow for the Western
Allies. Already India and Bur
ma have recognized the Chinese
communist regime, and Britain
is said to be preparing to ex
tend recognition shortly.
One of the most pressing prob
lems in the Far East is what to
do about the big strategic island
of Formosa, now ocupled by
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek
as Nationalist headquarters.
General Douglas MacArthur
and his top military planners are
said to believe America should
make every practicable effort to
prevent Formosa from being
captured by Chinese Reds.
Yes, the next 12 months are
likely to make big history which
will affect us all.