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BYH. T. WEBSTER
The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime
4
Salem, Oregon, Saturday, January 21, 1950
No Substitute for a Substitute
Again Salem's McNary field has been called on to be
come a temporary airport for Portland. Iced runways had
forced closing of the Portland field.
As during the Columbia river flood of 1948, the local
airport was used by United Air Lines as a substitute field.
This is the same United Air Lines that the Civil Aeronau
tics Board would order out of Salem. This is the same
United Air Lines that has been called on to show why
West Coast Airlines should not be substituted for it here.
This emergency use of McNary field by United is one
of the reasons why there should be no substitution.
As the CAB will find when it holds its hearing on the
Salem case sometime next month, McNary field is the
only one near Portland that can serve as an emergency
field when the Portland field is not usable, as in this latest
instance. Every so often, the Portland airport is closed
in because of fog, and Salem then acts as an alternate field.
As the CAB will learn, Salem was called on during the
Vanport disaster period to act as a substitute not only for
United but also Northwest Airlines and the Oregon Na
tional Guard.
Credit for putting Salem's field in shape to be used dur
ing this latest emergency goes to the local United station
crew, Airport Manager Barkley and his assistant, and all
groups using the field. A snow-plow worked for two days
to clear runways so the field would be in shape to handle
plane traffic.
This handling of Portland's traffic locally certainly
comes at an opportune time. This example should be ef
fective, coupled with the many other arguments in Salem's
case, to show the CAB the value of keeping United Air
Lines service here.
Averting Another Berlin Blockade
Gen. Maxwell Taylor, American commandant in Berlin,
has apparently averted a threatened resumption of the
Berlin blockade by ordering the return to the Russians
of the Soviet operated German railway administration
building, seized by the German police. At least it has re
lieved the existing East-West tension.
Taylor stated that "the 600 office rooms are not worth
the threat of a blockade. It was the intention to put this
space to use for the benefit of Berlin" he said in explaining
why the U.S. property control section authorized the city
government to move into the empty railway headquarters.
"But that the hardships the Russians sought to impose out
weighed the benefit arising from occupation."
The Russians had made their intention clear by impos
ing restrictions on traffic, notably a slowdown in Berline
elevated railway service and the stopping of some trucks
operating between Berlin and West Germany, stating
that they were doing so because of the seizure of the build
ing in the American sector here. Soviet guards had turned
back some trucks leaving Berlin and delayed others enter
ing the city as in blocade times.
The railway building was held by the Russians under
four-power agreement giving them control over the Ber
lin railways. The Russians largely had vacated the build
ing after the Berlin rail strike last year. The German
police took it on the contention that the hundreds of vacant
offices were needed. But the Russians formally protested
the use of the vacant building located in the U.S. sector
and badly needed for housing space by the Berlin govern
ment. Just another instance of Soviet intrantibility.
A Deserved Coalition Defeat
The efforts of a coalition of republicans and democrats
to change the house rules to grab control of the legislative
program there was deservedly defeated by a vote of 236 to
186. Its purpose was to go back to old rules permitting a
committee to tie-up bills indefinitely and so kill them and
its inspiration was to prevent the civil rights issue from
being acted upon, again giving the rules committee life
or death control of major legislation.
For many years the republican party platforms have
pledged the enaction of such measures and committed the
party to them, consequently the republicans who joined
with the southern die-hard democrats for partisan ad
vantage pursued an unjustifiable course in surrendering
principle to expediency to prevent action by the house.
The coalition had proposed to knock out a 1949 rule
allowing other committees to by-pass the rules group after
21 days. Even optimistic administration leaders had not
counted on collecting more than 50 GOP votes. They
actually got 64. But they lost 85 democrats.
In short, the southern democratic wing of the conlition
delivered its top strength, but their republican support
didn't come through.
The FEPC bill, backed by both republican and demo
cratic national parties, was the issue. Now it may be voted
upon next Monday under the 21-day rule the coalition
Bought to repeal.
Probably the filibuster will again be resorted to by the
southern democrats and all legislation be delayed, but
eventually there will be a vote on it and settle the issue.
Hunter Shoots Duck Banded
By Him 75 Years Before
Modesto, Calif., Jan. 21 (T) What, sir, is the life expec
tancy of a duck provided It avoids hunters' guns?
And just how far does it fly?
The surprising answers in the case history of one adult
male sprig were given today by Egbert Jones, Modesto dis
trict duck bander.
At the Newman Duck club on Oct. 1, 1933, Jones banded
this particular bird.
On Sept. 22, 1948, In Ugashlk, Alaska, 3,750 air miles
away, John V. Struck killed the same pintail.
Struck noticed the band number. He sent it to the U.S.
biological survey. In due time, the survey established the
number bad been put on the duck by Jones.
Jones, who bad banded hundreds of ducks, says this
Sprig is the oldest by far of which he has a record. And it
was the longest Interval between banding and killing. Jones
estimated the duck was at the ripe old age of 18 by the
time It got into the way of the Alaska hunter's shotgun.
Being a Bit Optimistic
Pasco, Wash., Jan. 21 (U.R) At a time when most residents
were thinking about snow shovels, the city council today
was studying bids on two power grass mowers.
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WHILE LISTENING FOR TFte APPROACHING
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
'Corniest Note Ever Sent by
President' on China Trouble
By DREW PEARSON
Washington History sometimes repeats, though with re
verse angles. It was just a little over 100 years ago that the
United States was also having trouble with China not with the
communists but with his imperial majesty, the emperor.
The trouble then, somewhat as today, was over the exclusion
of Ame r i c a n
BY CLARE BARNES, JR.
White Collar Zoo
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Everything We Have or Use
Is Really Only Loaned to Us
BY REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
Rector, St. Paul's Episcopal church
Most, if not all, of the things we use, are lent to us by a benev
olent God. This is true too of our privileges and our opportunities
as well as being true of the material things we seem to possess.
Even our time is not our own. When we lose or waste time, we
are being reckless with something which does not belong to us.
Good
fripnHs
lend us books
in the hope that
we shall enjoy
them and profit
by reading
them. It Ire
quently hap
pens that w c
get the notion
the books be
1 o n g to us, i
f!fi:i!
""S others property and persons and
the things lent to them by God
himself.
When we accept the things
God lends to us (and what
things has he not lent to us?)
we are privileged to get every
thing we can out of them to
make us healthy, even wealthy
and wise. We should then be
prepared to return them unim
paired to the great Lender of
ail.
All this may seem like a small
when, as a mat- act. Georse H. Swilt
ter of fact, they
are only lent to us.
What is borrowed should be matter without great signifi-
treasured while in our posses- cance, but the great wars, with
sion with even greater consider- au their horror, were started
atlon than if it were our own. by men who hadn't learned to
respect the property or persons
I like the story in the Book of of others. Who knows, maybe
Kings about a man who was cut- the criminal tendencies of these
ting down a tree on a river bank, men began when they failed to
A kind neighbor had lent him appreciate the importance of re
his ax with which to do the job. turning books lent to them by
As he worked, the axe-head fell others.
into the deep river. The man's When we contribute to a great
terrible distress over the loss of cause like religion or one of its
the tool loaned to him is record- offspring, we may indicate our
ed in Scripture, "Alas!" he cried, understanding of God's role as
"it was borrowed." lender by saying, "All things
This would be a happier world come of thee, O Lord, and of
if people had more regard for thine own we have given thee."
Doubly Sorry for Stealing
Hull, England, Jan. 21 VP) Seaman James Pearson is
doubly sorry.
He was fined 3 ($8.40) yesterday for stealing a four-and-a-half
gallon beer barrel.
He told the policeman who arrested him:
"I made a horrible mistake. It was empty."
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Finland Re-elects President in
Defiance of Commie Campaign
By EDWIN SHANKE
(For DeWttt MacKenrie, AP Foreign AMslrs Analyst)
London The re-election of President Juho Kusti Paasikivi,
Finland's oldest active statesman, demonstrates again the almost
defiant, stubborn independence of the hardy Finns a nation of
4,000,000 living in the shadow of the Red colossus.
Despite a communist pressure campaign, the Finns chose once
more to place their independ-
ence in the tired but capa- of again being kept out of the
blc hands of a man who help- government, although they reg
ed build the little republic af- istered some election gains,
ter the first world war as its ...
first prime minister. A lively little woman 46
Though almost 80, he still years of age is the soul of the
is the dominating personality in communist party in Finland.
Finnish politics. "The old man She is Hertta Kuusinen,
in the (presidential) palace" known to Finns as "Finland's
talks the Russian language and Red Cross" and one of the most
understands Russian ways. He watched persons in the country,
sees the need for good relations Daughter of Otto Wille Kuusin
with a big neighbor, but with- en, a power in the Soviet union
out sacrificing treasured liber- as president of the Karelian re
tics, public, she shuttles frequently
between Helsinki and Moscow.
iru,,i, (i, ritini vmr nf Many Finnish politicians believe
Finland's independence he was he the PiPne for Moscow's
the man the Finns most fre
quently chose to deal with the
Russians. He began nis political
1CT
1
Drew Pearson
Chinese and the Americans will
trade, there should be rules, so
that they shall not break your
laws nor our laws. Our Minis
ter, Caleb Cushing, is authoriz
ed to make a treaty to regulate
trade. Let it be just. Let there
be no unfair advantage on ei
ther side.
"Let the people trade not only
at Canton, but also at Amoy,
Ning-Po, Shang-Hai, Fu-Chow,
ana all such other places as may
offer profitable exchanges both
business from'
Chinese trade,
British, as to- '4
day, were get- '
ting the inside
track.
As a - result,
President John I
Tyler sent what
Maury Maver
ick describes as
"t h e corniest
note ever signed by a president"
to the Emperor of China urging to China and the United States,
him to open his ports to the provided they do not break
United States. your laws nor our laws.
Carrying the note to the em- "We shall not take the part
peror was Special Ambassador of evil-doers. We shall , not up
Caleb Cushing, with explicit in- hold them that break your laws,
structions from Daniel Webster, Therefore, we doubt not that
then secretary of state, "to se- you will be pleased that our
cure the entry of American messenger of peace, with this
ships and cargoes into these letter in his hand, shall come
ports on terms as favorable as to Pekin, and there deliver it;
those enjoyed by British mer- and that your great officers
chants." will, by your order, make a
Not foreseeing that China treaty with him to regulate af
someday would undergo vast po- fairs of trade so that nothing
litical changes, Daniel Webster may happen to disturb the peace
made this observation in his let- between China and America,
ter to Ambassador Cushing: "Let the treaty be signed by
"It cannot be foreseen how your own imperial hand. It shall
! rapidly or how slowly a people be signed by mine, by the au
of such peculiar habits as the thority of our great council, the
Chinese, and apparently so te- senate.
naciously attached to their ha- "And so may your health be
bits, may adopt the sentiments, good, and may peace reign,
ideas and customs of other na- "Your good friend,
tions." "John Tyler."
"We're taking up a collection for one of the girls
she's gettin' married."
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Scheme to Pay January Bills
Flops; Wife Comes to Rescue
By HAL BOYLE
New York (AT Bills! Billsl Bills!
The January mail is full of them. So is our house and so Is
yours, I'll bet.
After the first of the year it's payoff time for Santa Claui,
and the bills flood in like the Galveston tidal wave.
It is the sea-
orders to the Finnish commun
ists. When the so-called popular
. rnini hut hiftiH front of communists and radi-
to conservatism and now is re- cal social.sts suffered a heavy
garded above party politics with- setback in the December 1947
out party affiliation. communal elections, Hertta ap-
, . peared at the president s annual
- He commands Russian respect. ba , black ve,vet dress pre
Wh.le he knows what the Rus- sident Paasikivl teased her and
sians want, he knows, too, what she Jokedi rm me everyone
his people want the right to wiu th,nk 1m m mourning...
live in freedom, free to deal ...
with west or east. Lateri the p0puiar front re-
That may be a reason for cciVed further setbacks. Hert-
communism desires to see him &-s communist husband Yrjo
out of the way. Their eventual Leino, from whom she now is
aim is to tie Finland tightly divorced, was swept out of the
into the Russian bloc of satel- key office of minister of inter-
lites. And if ever there was a ior.
Reports from Helsinki indi
cate that when the new prcsi-
Little did Webster realize
that China someday would de
sert her traditional isolation for
the violent political philosophy
of Karl Marx.
At that time, however, the
Chinese were really stony
heartedexcept to nations with
navies as large as the British.
Therefore, President Tyler's
letter to the emperor got no
where. However, Tyler tried hard,
and here is the jewel which he
penned on July 12, 1843:
"I, John Tyler, president of
the United States of America
which states are: Maine, New
Hampshire, Massa chusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, Ver
mont, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, Mary
land, Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Ken
tucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Louis
iana, Indiana, Mississippi, Illin
ois, Alabama, Missouri, Arkan
sas and Michigan send you this
letter of peace and friendship,
signed by my own hand.
"1 hope your health is good.
China is a great empire, extend
ing over a great part of the
world. The Chinese are numer
ous. You have millions and mil
lions of subjects. The twenty
six United States are as large
as China, though our people are
not so numerous.
"The rising sun looks upon
the great mountains and great
rivers of China. When he sets,
he looks upon rivers and moun
tains equally large in the Unit
ed States. Our territories are di
vided from your dominions only
by the sea. Leaving the mouth
of one of our great rivers, and
going constantly toward the set
ting sun, we sail to Japan and
to the Yellow sea.
"Now, i my words are, that
the governments of two such
great countries should be at
peace. It is proper, and accord
ing to the will of heaven, that
they should respect each other,
and act wisely. I therefore send
to your court Caleb Cushing,
one of the wise and learned
men of this country. On his first
arrival in China, he will inquire
for your health He has the
strict orders to go to your great
city of Pekin, and there to de
liver this letter. He will have
with him secretaries and inter
preters. "The Chinese love to trade
with our people, and to sell
them tea and silk, for which our
people pay silver, and some
times other articles. But if the
Daniel Webster, in his in
structions to Ambassador Cush
ing, carefully cautioned him not
to kowtow to the emperor.
"The Chinese are apt to speak
of persons coming into the em
pire as tribute bearers to the
emperors," Webster cautioned.
"This idea has been fostered
perhaps by the costly parade of
embassies of England.
"All ideas of this kind, should
they arise, must be immediately
met by a declaration, not made
ostentatiously, that you are no
tribute bearer: that your gov
ernment pays tribute to no one,
and accepts tribute from no one.
"It cannot be wrong for you
to make known," Webster con
tinued, "that the United States,
once a country subject to Eng
land, threw off that subjection
years ago, asserted its indepen
dence, sword in hand, estab
lished that independence after a
seven years' war, and now meets
England upon equal terms upon
the ocean and upon the land.
...
"The remoteness of the Unit
ed States from China, and s.ill
more the fact that they have no
colonial possessions in her
neighborhood, will naturally
lead to the indulgence of a less
suspicious and more friendly
feeling than may have been en
tertained towards England, even
before the late war between
England and China.
"It cannot be doubted that the
immense power of England in
India must be regarded by the
Chinese government with dis
satisfaction, if not with some de
gree of alarm. You will take
care to show strongly how free
the Chinese government may
well be from all jealousy aris
ing from such causes toward the
United States.
"Finally, you will signify, in
decided terms and a positive
manner, that the government
of the United States would find
it impossible to remain on terms
of friendship and regard with
the emperor, if greater priv
ileges or commercial facilities
should be allowed to the sub
jects of any other government
than should be granted to ci
tizens of the United States.
"I am, sir, very respectfully,
your obedient servant,
"DANIEL WEBSTER."
Today, 107 years later, we're
right back where we started
from the British trading in
China and the United States
closing up its consulates.
(Copyrliht 1950)
son when the
average man re
alizes the old
truth that in this
life money alone
is not enough.
At least the mo
ney he has han
dy isn't. And he
lives in dread
of the install
ment collector.
A friend of
usual the amount on the bills
totaled more than the amount
in the bank.
"Why don't I write out a
check for each bill," I thought,
"and then put the checks in the
wrong envelopes. Each guy will
think I meant to pay him. It will
be April by the time the whole
business is straightened out, and
by then I'll be solvent."
So I addressed all the enve
lopes and wrote all the checks.
mine is a case in point. Passing and laid out the checks and en-
his home the other night, I de- velopes in two rows. Then I
cided to drop in an see his new went into the reading room to
television set. finish a serial.
I knocked half a dozen times .
but there was no answer. Puz- When I emerged, the desk was
zled, I went to a drugstore and bare. Frances came in a few
phoned him. moments later.
"Oh, was that you knocking?" "I had to mail a letter, so I
he said in great relief. "Come mailed your checks, too, dear,"
on back, rap twice so we'll she said.
know it's you and we'll let you "Of course, you put the Right
in." checks in the Right envelopes?"
When I entered I found the I moaned,
whole family grouped around "Oh, yes, I didn't make any
the video screen eating sand- mistake, dear."
wiches. I asked, "why all the Not much! It was June by the
mystery," and my friend said: time that mess was straightened
"I couldn't make the January out. By then we had given our
payment on the television set, patronage to another bank it
and we're not answering the seemed a good idea. And Fran
door for fear it's the installment ces, once and for all, had agreed
man coming to take the set back, to take over our finances.
If I can hold' out to February, That, men, is the only way to
I'll be all right." be sure your bills are paid and
to enjoy a life free of financial
How well do I remember cares. Let your wife handle the
when I used to be in this pitiful money. Wives are like canaries,
plight a January fugitive from which can be just as happy with
financial woes. This was in the a thimble full of birdseed as a
days when I used to handle the barrel full. Women don't com-
money in the family. plain half as much about how
Giving me a checkbook and little you earn if they control
telling me to spend carefully was the purse.
like giving Hitler an army and It has worked out wonderfully
telling him not to waste it. in my household. Let Frances
Soon the bill collectors beat crease her brow over how to
on my door so often they asked meet January bills. She'll find
me to put a pad on it to save a way. Dollar worries? I don't
their knuckles. have 'em.
January, then as now, was the Don't have any dollars either,
worst month. Once I hit on a Every system has a flaw,
solution that seemed fine. As That's the one in mine.
When Love Is Not in Love
Savannah, Ga., Jan. 21 ff) Mattie L Love has filed suit
for a divorce.
She claims her husband. Natural Love, deserted her.
CapitalJpurnal
moral bulwark against Russian
pressure, it is Paasikevi.
The Russian not demanding dential term begins March 1,
surrender of 300 alleged Rus- and the present soclalist-demo-
sian "war criminals" and charg- crat minority government re-
lng Finland with a breach of signs, a coalition of conserva-
her peace treaty in the midst tives, progressives and social
of the presidential campaign democrats will take place. These
was regarded as an open pres- are the parties which supported
sure move in support of the Paasikivi. The communists are
Finnish communists. expected to be excluded for a
The outcome of the election second time,
undoubtedly will drive Fin- That's not likely to sit well
land's communists to a new with the Kremlin and further
wave of agitation especially pressure moves are almost cer-
because they face the prospect tain to follow.
Army Private Spends Pay
Supporting Two War Orphans
Tokyo, Jan. 21 VP) As a private in the U.S. army. Earl S.
Whitney, 21, doesn't make much money.
So it was understandable when he took a night job in a service
club to earn extra change.
His real reason for taking the extra Job came to light today.
Whitney, a southern California
lad, has been supporting two month. He has not asked help
war orphans, a Chinese and a from any other source for his
Japanese, for nearly three philanthropy,
years. Asked why he spends from
Whitney's charity was reveal- $75 to $100 a month of his
ed when he asked for a two-day meager pay on the orphans,
pass from first cavalry maneuv- Whitney replied: .
ers. Questioned by army author- "It makes me feel badly to
ities as to why he wanted the see all the little kids hungry,
pass. Whitney said he wanted I wouldn't want to see my bro-
to visit the Chinese mission to thers and sisters like that."
straighten out some papers on Whitney's home is at San Ga-
his ward, Fan Tung, 13. briel, Calif.
Then the whole story came Whitney calls the Chinese
out. Jimmy and the Japanese Mick-
ey.
Since coming here nearly Both boys lived until recent
three years ago, Whitney has ly in i room attached to the
fed, educated, maintained and Church of Christ in the Tokyo
clothed Fan Tung and Hiraya- suburb of Zoshigaya, but Mick
ma Tyokichi, 16. Both were ey, who teached a Sunday school
orphaned by the war, class in the church, now has
His army pay is $111.90 a quarters elsewhere.
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