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4 Salem, Oregon, Saturday, January 28, 1950
Mr. Truman Has "No Comment"
Washington correspondents had some fun at the weekly
press conference quizzing President Truman on the con
viction of Alger Hiss and red herrings but got nowhere, the
only reply being "no comment." The United Press gives
the following account of the way it went at the news
confab :
"Q. Mr. President, regardless of the outcome in the upper
courts, will you 'turn your back on Alger Hiss'?
"A. No comment. Then Mr. Truman said that was a nice
question. There was a bit of laughter in the crowded, oval
room.
"A reporter barged in with a question about excise taxes.
After a bit of back and forth the conference got back to Hiss.
"Q. Mr. President, no point in asking other Alger Hiss ques
tions? "A. Mr. Truman replied that there was no point in asking
any more Alger Hiss questions. He said they were not asked
with good intent and that he did not intend to answer them.
"Q. Mr. President, how about a red herring question?
"A. Mr. Truman said there would be no questions on that
here.
"Q. Mr. President, do you approve of the statement of Sec
retary Acheson?
"A. There was no comment."
Acheson had said he would not turn his back on Alger
Hiss although his friend had been convicted of lying and
by implication of spying for the Soviet Union while he
was a high state department official.
But it is already apparent that congress will be more
difficult to hush than the newsmen. Rep. Harold H. Velde
(R., 111.) says the president's refusal to discuss his 1948
"red herring" statements about Hiss was "the attitude of
a stubborn man who is still attempting to withhold infor
mation on an espionage plot in his branch of government
from the people and the courts of the land. If Mr. Tru
man won't make the answers, it is up to congress to pro
vide some answers."
Other congressmen said they will demand that Mr. Tru
man release the loyalty records of Hiss and explain his
previous all-out efforts to hamstring the house un-American
activities commission which was trying to expose
communists in the state department.
From the time the Hiss story broke in August, 1948, a
presidential campagin year, until after discovery of evi
dence which ultimately led to his conviction, Mr. Truman
pooh-poohed the spy story: He called it a red herring used
by the republicans for political purposes. He said the
house investigators were headline hunters.
Two Airlines Skipped Salem
Last week-end Salem's airport got all the Portland busi
ness for United Air Lines. Portland's field was iced over,
so no flights came in or out there.
The question arises, however, as to what happened to the
flights of Western Airlines and Northwest which also
operate out of Portland ? Since neither airline had facili
ties at Salem, neither Northwest or Western used the
Salem field.
This brings up an important point that can be used effec
tively in the Civil Aeronautics Board hearings in another
month here. If United is deprived of facilities at McNary
field, then United also would be unable to use Salem when
weather "closes in" the Portland airport.
At least that would be the case, assuming United used
the same reasoning that both Northwest and Western did
during last week-end's storm. Lack of facilities of the
later two airlines here, tends to discourage them from
using the field, which is certainly understandable.
Then if United were barred from Salem, as the CAB
originally considered doing, then flights coming to Oregon
probably would miss the state entirely during storms,
since Salem is the only practical stop outside of Portland.
The CAB has a responsibility to the state, it would seem,
to do everything possible to give the state adequate air
transportation. To act to cripple that service would be to
hurt air transportation itself.
A responsibility rests with Salem, likewise, in this par
ticular role of an alternative field for Portland. Certain
of the bigger planes that are now coming into operation
will not be able to land at Salem even if pel-mission were
given to use the field and if company facilities were pres
ent. The runways are not long enough for the extra large
transports. So extension of the runways of McNary field
will become necessary in the future if the airport is to be
adequate for the second city of Oregon. '
When Salem asks the CAB to keep the city's place in
the transcontinental airways picture, Salem also assumes
a certain obligation to maintain adequate facilities and
runways.
Hydrogen Bomb Up to the President
The question of building or not building the super hydro
gen bomb has been left with President Truman. Urcred
;by many top military officials, as well as those who co
Sjoperated in building the atomic bomb, and in the tcchno-
1$ logical improvement of weapons, Mr. Truman made it clear
trial tne unal decision rests with him alone.
At the closed meeting of the senate military committee
with the atomic energy commission held Friday, state
ments urging hydrogen-bomb construction came from such
sources as Dr. Harold C. Urey. a scientist who helped build
the first A-bombs ; Bernard Bnruch, author of the Ameri
can atomic control plan that Russia rejected in the United
Nations, and Chairman Carl Vinson (D., Go.), of the house
armed services committee.
Indications are that congress may yet first be notified
of the president's decision if he says "yes" through a
request 1'or an appropriation. The legislators were un-,
questionably ready to give the administration any money
it wants for che project, and economize on non-essentials.
Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D.. Va.1. ton leader of the demo-
'J V' 1 4lo.fi annnnm., Kin, enirl. "4. In.. n n 4k :
if j'jjbomb, we should have the very best and have a plentiful
'i'JM supply of them. I do not see how we can make any other
man an amrmauve decision.
Chairman DifVid E. Lilicnthal of the atomic energy com
mission has been quoted in some sources as being adverse
to construction of the weapon. But he said that state
ments on his views have been "inaccurate and some of them
just plain absurd." Ho specifically denied a report that
he has offered to go to Moscow to negotiate directly with
Josef Stalin on new atomic controls.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Republican Gripes May Be Just
Forerunner to Blast in GOP
By DREW PEARSON
Washington It looks like an explosion was brewing inside
the republican party.
A senator's snort plus troubled questions are portents of trouble.
The snort came from that merry old soul of republican con
servatism, the delightful and brainy Eugene Millikin of Colo
rado, at an out-
raged gathering ?W
ators.
Senator Mil
likin, an impor-
tant looking
man with a
huge, bald head
listened with
an amused
twinkle to
gripes hurled at
the republican
national committee,
snorted:
BY CLARE BARNES, JR.
White Collar Zoo
Drew Pearaon
Then he
"The trouble with the
national committee is they are fair. This is not the way to win
tickets for the Lincoln day "box
supper" at the Uline arena in
Washington. Senator Morse sent
the tickets back with a note, "I
cannot afford to spend this
money. I need it in my own
campaign, and I am quite sure
I will not receive any financial
support from the national com
mittee." Acidly commented Senator
Lodge: "This is a new low from
the high of Abraham Lincoln.
There are too many big-time
lobbyists mixed up in this af-
Senior Portners
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
Words of St. Paul Ring True
Today as They Did Originally
BY REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
Rector, Bt. Paul'a Episcopal church
It would be difficult, If not impossible, to appraise the work
of Saint Paul, whose conversion the church celebrated on Jan
uary 25th.
What Saint Paul did after he was converted on the road to
Damascus gave the faltering young church the "spark" which
made it "click," s ,a .... ...
sorrowiui, yet always rejoicing;
As poor, yet making many rich;
As having nothing, and yet pos
sessing all things."
According to its critics, the
church has been dying for fif
teen hundred years. Yet it goes
on, ever increasing in numbers
and strength: always poor, yet
making man rich; as having no
thing, yet possessing all things
of real and lasting Importance.
and which car
ried It over the
first shock of
persecution.
The vigorous
way in which he
p r e a c h ed the
Gospel, estab
lished churches
and converted;
souls placed
Saint Paul in ae. oeoue h. swiit
the church's hall
of fame as the world's greatest
Saint Paul's writings, as found
Christian missionary. Then, too m the New Testament, should
Saint Paul left more writings he read and re-read hundreds
that have survived the test of of times. Saint Paul's faith and
time than did all the original spiritual strength as revealed in
12 apostles together. h's Epistles will continue to be
The words of Saint Paul have an inspiration to mankind as
survived the test of time because lonS as there is " Christian
they ring true! Somehow, they Church.
interpret Christianity in a way Salnt PauI had 8 Sreat soul, a
that makes it plainly applicable trained mind, sound convictions,
to our own everyday experience. and tne strength of character to
, , , act. He must have had a crystal-
clear conscience too, when he
Saint Paul made a word pic- wrote his own epitaph in words
ture of the church of that early e these'
time. But what he said of the i have' fought a good fight;
church then might be said of the i have finished my course; I
church today: have kept the faith. Therefore
"As dying and behold, we live; there is laid up for me a crown
As chastened, and not killed; As of righteousness." !
Lets Sleeping Dogs Lie
Burlingame, Calif., Jan. 28 (U.R) A thief who believed in
letting sleeping dogs lie tiptoed through kennels housing
30 canines last night and took $1000 from the Burllngame
Animal hospital without setting off a single bark.
KRISS-KROSS
Old Man Winter Timed His
Storm to Fit Court Docket
ByCHRISKOWITZ.Jr.
Old Man Winter must have a copy of the Marion county
circuit court docket. At least he schedules his storms to comply
with the court calendar.
Circuit Judge George R. Duncan lives near Stayton and drives
to Salem every morning. The snow has slowed Duncan down
living in an antediluvian age.'
Coming from millionaire
Senator Millikin, this is ex
tremely significant, yet it's ty
pical of the reaction of moder
ate republicans to the high,
wide and handsome campaign
by the party's right wing
against "me-tooism."
Another troubled question
was raised recently by Vic
Johnston, conscientious man-of-all-work
for the GOP congres
sional campaign committee. He
inquired of republican friends:
"What can I tell my son? He
wrote from college that he's
considering leaving the repub
lican party because he thinks it
does not offer anything for
youth."
'Progressives' Advice Unheeded
Two "progressive" republi
cans have answers, but so far
they haven't been listened to.
Scholarly Sen. Irving Ives of
N-w York advises: "To attract
the support essential to our
success, we republicans must
stand for things. We must show
that we have genuine solicitude
for the welfare of all the peo
ple. The reactionaries are liv
ing in a dream world and can
only destroy the republican
party at a time when there is
a tragic need for an intelligent
opposition to the fair deal."
Similar advice comes from
the young, hard-hitting Massa
chusetts senator, Henry Cabot
Lodge, Jr., who says: "We need
a positive program to win' elec
tions. This means a fight to
prevent the party from falling
completely into the hands of the
right wing."
Other Rumbles
Other signs of the coming ex
plosion are:
1.) "Wild Bill" Langer, the
bull-throated independent from
confidence in the party
Note What GOP strategists
seem to forget is that in order
to win elections they have to
woo away democratic votes. It
isn't enough merely to get the
same number of republican vot
ers. The man most successful in
winning democratic votes has
been Gov. Earl Warren of Cal
ifornia, who, when last elected,
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
India's Statehood Symbol of
Fast Changing Times in World
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
W Foreign Allaire. Analyatl
Tnrfi,' arrival nt full statehood complete in all respects as a
had both the democratic and the sovereign republic which is answerable to no foreign power
republican nominations. is symbolic of our rapidly changing times.
"Honest, Honey" This transformation, involving more than three hundred
Vice President Barkley was million souls, has in the main been effected within the past
introducing his lovely wife generation. Ev-f
en to those whof
around in the office of his good
friend, Senate Secretary Les
Biffle. The Veep came to Bif
fle's secretary, bowed and said,
"This is Betty Darling."
V .i.h a twinkle and a wink at
Mrs. Darling, Barkley said mer
rily, "That's her name, honest
honey."
Oklahomans 'Down' on Thomas
Gruff Sen. Elmer Thomas, the
Oklohoma dude, is catching it
plenty back home for gallivant
ing around Europe and his crus
ty remarks about Sweden.
A sample is the blunt com
ment of Mayor Earl Ward of
Pryor, Okla. This community,
with the help of Sen. Bob Kerr
and the congressional delega
tion, put up a real campaign to
get the $100,000,000 air force
wind tunnel laboratory.
When Oklahoma lost out, the
mayor said to Rep. Mike Mon
roney: "I want to thank you,
Mike, and Bob Kerr, too. But
what I want to know is where
was Elmer Thomas in our hour
of need? I'll tell you. He was
off fooling around with the
Swedes in Sweden and getting
mad because they didn't bow
low enough to him."
Di Salle Is Comer
mike ui sane, vigorous
DeWitl Mackensle
lie life but for the most part
were kept shut away from the
outside world. When they ap
peared in public they were
closely veiled all except the
lowest classes.
That was the picture a- gen
eration ago. But education
was spreading, and the people
were beginning to feel a poli
tical consciousness.
A little Hindu named Gandhi
was tramping the highways and
byways, preaching the tenets of
the sermon on the mount, and
instilling the urge for political
freedom on the minds of the
masses. Working with him were
eager folowers like the great
Nehru, who now is prime min
ister of India.
Well, you know the rest of
the story. Progress has surged
across the peninsula and we
now have the independent na
tions of India and Pakistan.
have been pri-ij
vileged to wlt-r
ness this epici
development ati
close range, its
seems almost!
u n believable
that such a,
mighty change
could happen
within the1
compass of
short a time.
I'm taking you back to 1916
17 when I made my first visit
of several months to India. It
was an Arabian nights adven
ture into the middle ages.
The vast peninsula was pre
sided over by the British vice
roy as representative of the
king-emperor, and the regime
was far more regal than that In
England itself. It had to be, be
cause under it were some 600
native princes of unlimited
wealth who had the power of Both are playing their part in
life and death over their hum- world affairs.
North Dakota, was calmly eat- young mayor of Toledo,
ing in the senate restaurant
when GOP leader Ken Wherry
strolled by. The mere sight of
Wherry aroused Langer to an
angry snarl.
."They're trying to read me
out of the party," he said, "and
there goes one of the so-and-so's
who'd like to do it. But I'll
show them. I've been stomping
up and down North Dakota and
the people don't want to go
back to McKinley."
2.)' Republican regulars in
Oregon backed up by lumber
interests and a $150,000 cam
paign kitty are preparing a 90-
shot out of the cannon with a
bang in the Ohio senatorial race.
On the same day he announced,
DiSalle grabbed the potent sup
port of Mayor Tom Burke of
Cleveland.
Result will be a rough-and-
ble subjects. Such potentates
bowed only to superior power
and splendor.
The imperial Durbars were
things of wonder. Nowhere else
ever had been seen such dis
plays of opulence the moun
tains of priceless jewels, the
clothing cunningly woven of
solid golden threads, the ele
phants' caparisons which were
worth the ransom of a king.
The princes have been depos
ed and their subjects have
joined the free peoples of the
new nations.
day mitzKrieg" against pro- seas last year as a delegate to
gressive Sen. Wayne Morse in the International Mayors' pow-
ine uur primary. wow, and has been awarded
India ranks among the great
manufacturing countries of the
globe. Education has swept the
peninsula, for both women and
men. Women are discarding
the veil, and you see young men
and girls walking the streets
together. Religious bigotry has
That was the dazzling part of lessened,
the picture. Beneath this blaze When I first visited India T
tumble scrap for the democra- of glory there were of course made a friend in a distinguished
tic nomination . between Di various strata of society which Hindu writer. I was entertained
Salle, who had made labor reflected the education and cul- in his home but his wife would-
peace history with his Toledo ture both of their own ancient n't eat at table with me because
management council, and "Jum- India and of the outside world. I was an "unbeliever." Four
pin' Joe" Ferguson, the state But then came the lowly masses, years ago I was entertained in
auditor. the vast majority of whom al- their home and she ate with me
ine young mayor is a comer, ways were hungry.
At the very bottom were
some 40,000,000 or more Hindu
untouchables who were so low
that they didn't even have
He is president of the Ohio
Council of Mayors, went over-
as though I were a member of
the family.
Yesterday India inaugurated
her first president, Rajendra
Prasad, a disciple of the martyr-
Dlace in the caste svstem. Thpv eri nanHhl su. aic-. r-nm.
3.) Last straw for many re- doctorate by Notre Dame for were the pariahs, condemined to ed her new republican constitu
somewhat dur
ing the last
three weeks, but
he was not com
pletely stymied
until Friday.
Tl,. 4 ,. A a
J VI ft -
a r n s Friday
morning during
the middle of
the season's hea
viest snow storm
and found it
impOS S i b 1 e to Chrli Rowllt, Jr.
drive to the county scat.
He notified the courthouse of
his situation. A quick check of
operator of the Bright Spot rest
aurant in Salem. The two gents
could pass for twins.
The nearly 600 Marlon county
farmers who recently submitted
a petition asking for a weed
control district In Marion county
may be enlightened to know
that projects along that line are
now in force in five Oregon
counties, and proving successful
in each case. The counties are
Clackamas, Curry, Tillamook.
Coos and Lincoln.
Mrs Spinner heads a sewing
ih. .,,ri rtopkot for that dav club at Pedee ... and a south
revealed that there was not a 13th street greenhouse in Salem
single trial or hearing scheduled is owned by a man named Plant,
for Duncan's court. .
Old Man Winter may take a , The A;, c; Friesens of route
lot of cussing, lately, but It can't rePort hat helr !even che-
be said that he Isn't cooperative peake retriever puppies are do-
nt. 4v, i,,i ing fine on their da ly bottle
with the legal profession. o(
,,, . , are now in the stage of being
Standard Oil company has In- wcaned The motner. unable to
formed Marion county officials nurse thc because of blood
that the maximum price on as- poisoning ls improving rapidly,
phalt oil for road surfaces is ...
being sliced from $25 to $20 per people lcave , the
ton. Could this be a hint that darndest piaces 0ne was 5crib.
gasoline and fuel oil prices are bIed with lipsllek In bold lettcrs
due for a slash? across the face of . mrror at
Reed's Millinary on the corner
Look-alikes: Charles F. Easta- of State and High on a recent
brook, recently-named president evening. The note read "Doro-
of thc Monmouth Chamber of thy Meet me on the malii floor
Commerce, and Ralph Calcy, co- of the Elsinore Marge."
OPEN FORUM
publicans in congress was a de- his nace-settine work in labor
mand that they buy blocks of relations.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Let's Save the Common Cold
By HAL BOYLE
NewYork (P) Have you noticed what science is up to now?
It's trying to destroy man's best friend the common cold.
This is rank ingratitude to an ailment that has helped more
people than it has hurt. For modern society is built on the com
mon cold, real or imaginary, and it fills many necessary func
tions.
There is a
great tumult
raging in medi
cal circles as
whether the
new anti-hista-mine
drugs will
cure the com
mon cold.
Who cares?
Who wants It
cured anyway?
P n e umonia,
Influenza, bronchitis, asthma
these are real diseases that
threaten lives and should be at
tacked without mercy.
But why pick on the common
cold? It isn't really a disease
be the emptiers of nightslons for tion, under which the stiema
their "betters." Poor devils, of "untouchability" is outlawed,
these untouchables were far less Whither now? I have traveled
fortunate than the gaunt-bellied, widely on the India peninsula
wild dogs from which they got and studied the people. I be-
the name of pariah. lieve their capability lor ad-
Those still were days of con- vancement is unlimited,
sidarable child marriage. Worn- India may well become the
en had little or no place in pub- leader of the whole orient.
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treat from the bugle call of
duty, or just a desire to play
hookey and go to a ball game.
Will ' any drugs, antihista
mine or otherwise, cure all
these things? Well, that is the
real problem of the common
cold.
At present, if you don't want
to play bridge or attend a bor
ing cocktail party, you just put
a towel over your mouth, go to
thephone, and mumble to the
hostess:
"Sorry, cad't make it, got a
code id my head."
Who wants her to chirp back,
"Oh, don't worry. I'll send you
over some anti-histamincs.
it is one of civilization's great They'll fix you up right away,
safety valves.
...
The misguided people who
want to get rid of it use the.
same arguments as those who
advocated prohibition 30 years
ago. The main argument is eco
nomic that colds cost some
$420,000,000 a year in lost
wages.
and you'll be able to come."
Right now the plain, every
day cold is a better excuse than
television to stay home and
stay healthy. Social hypocrisy
demands that there be a fash
ionable acceptable minor illness
to bail people out of trouble
they don't want to get into.
Cure the common cold and
The idea is that, if colds are folks will have to develop an-
Praise for Salem Bus Drivers
To the Editor: Ever since we've been In Salem we've heard
nothing but growling about the bus service arid drivers.
I, for one, would like to put my word of appreciation In for
them during this storm.
I ride on the Browning avenue bus every morning, and our
driver always has a cheerful "good morning" for us as we get
on. Ho hasn't been able to keep on schedule but he has gotten
around his run safely.
MRS. E. A. BAMFORD, Jr.
2685 Hillsidt Lane, Salem
stopped, people wont miss
work and they will have $420,
000,000 more with which to buy
homes, orchids, toy trains and
Shetland ponies.
What nonsense, really!
How many "colds" are caused
by germs? Only a fraction as
most physicians know. A cold
is really a camouflage name to
describe hangovers, laziness.
other ailment one that might
really make them sick For peo
ple such is the power of mind
over germs usually do develop
the ailments they pretend to
have.
What'U we trade the cold for
-arthritis, kidney stones, gall
bladder attacks, high blood
pressure, or mental neuroses?
AU are worse than the cold,
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deep fatigue, spring fever, an which is merely a gentle allergy
unwillingness to face problems to life's strain and a signal to
at the office, a temporary re- take it easy.
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