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4 Salem, Oregon, Friday, February 10, 1950
Strike Trend Increasing
Department of Labor statistics show that the number of
man days lost through strikes zoomed from 6.7 million in
prewar 1940, to an all-time high of 116 million in post-war
1946. In 1947 they dropped to 34.6 million, were even
less, 34.1 million in 1948, rose to an estimated 53 million in
1949, and the strike trend for 1950 promises to exceed the
hours lost last year.
The coal strike of 400,000 United Mine Workers is con
tinuing after eight months of intermittent striking and
three-day work weeks, and the president has been forced
to act under the emergency clause of the Taft-Hartly act.
The Chrysler strike is adding its millions of lost man days
not only in the auto industry but supply industries. A
nation-wide telephone strike has only been held-up by the
federal mediator's request. Two railroad brotherhoods
have voted to strike, but has not set a date and other
strikes are being threatened.
Most of. those strikers are getting the highest wages in
their history and the shortest work week. Many of them
have generous pension systems and the record shows that
strike gains in whole industry strikes, spreading from one
field to another have really resulted in a loss to the worker,
their slight gains in income being less than wages lost.
It is the shortsighted leaders of strikes, labor bosses to
whom power has gone to their heads, who are to blame,
for many of the unions have established life-long hier
archies who ascended to power by goonism and have regi
mented members under the totalitarian tactics and have
adopted "the people be damned" motto of the old power
drunk industrialists and defied public welfare and exploited
workers.
Labor leaders are now concentrating on politics and the
1950 elections, intent on a purge of congressmen and even
state legislators who refuse their dictation and pouring out
the millions of untaxed membership revenues to secure a
labor dictatorship. But it is the poorest politics possible
for it arouses an angry resentment in a liberty loving
democracy.
Industrial pensions are a delusion also, for they depend
upon the continued solvency of the employer and vanish
with depression, and they are paid for in higher living
costs. The practice of thrift, of spending less than re
ceived and balancing the budget will provide any worker
with a self -earned pension that is not an unearned gift.
An Education Job Must Be Done
Everyone locally breathed a sigh of relief a few days ago
when the state emergency board acted on the Coates' apart
ment house site in order to save the extended capitol zone.
The board's decision to spend $14,250 to cover cost of the
North Summer street property also brought a sigh of re
lief from other parts of the state.
The Oregon Journal in Portland, for instance, comment
ed on the "editorial prodding and some very loud public
protests" that were needed to put a ban on large new build
ings in the proposed zone north of Center street.
The Oregon Journal was incorrect in saying the Salem
city council committed "an almost irreparable error in
granting the Portland builder a permit to erect the $300,
000 apartment house." The permit was issued by the city
building inspector's office because the permit conformed
to the law at the time the request was made to build on
the North Summer street lot. The building inspector
could do nothing but grant the permit. Because of a mis
understanding between the capitol planning commission
and the city planning commission, the necessary bars had
not been raised to such a project in the zone outlined last
November for future state buildings.
As the Portland paper says, however, "the next move is
up to the state legislature." And in order to bring about
such a move, a state-wide program of education by the
Oregon newspapers will be necessary.
That program would bring to the attention of residents
all over the state the general outline of the obvious need
for setting aside a zone in which state buildings of the fu
ture may be constructed for efficiency and beauty. The
building expansion program in a two-block wide area sells
itself.
State-wide acceptance of the program before the legis
lature meets the first of next year could then bring a
definite financial commitment from the legislature for the
purchase of the four blocks north of Center street and an
indication of attitude by the state toward the remaining
blocks north to D street.
No Appeasement for Russia
Secretary ol State Aeheson, at a Wednesday press con
ference ruled out any new overtures to Russia on interna
tional control of atomic weapons, including the hydrogen
super-bomb.
Aeheson told newsmen that if this country can reach
its goal of world peace by the process of agreement that
will be the best way to do it. "But," he added, "four years
of trying have brought us to the realization that is not
possible."
Concerning the McMahon proposal for a five-year $50
billion American crusade for peace, including international
control of atomic energy and a proposal that President
Truman call a world conference for disarmament, Aeheson
said the way to move toward the goal of world peace is to
develop areas of strength in the world. He said this takes
a calm, steady, persistent American foreign policy. This
is more important now than ever before, Aeheson said.
At his Thursday press conference President Truman ap
proved Acheson's statements and said all that is needed
is a little cooperation from Russia and our present policy
for peace would get the job done. He vetoed any new ap
proach to Russia, and stood pat for the Baruch plan of
atomic control. Russia refused to accept its provisions
for inspection of atomic projects.
By indirection, the president also rejected a plea for a
call for a world disarmament conference. He said disarma
ment is linked to atomic controls. If an atomic agreement
could be reached, he said, disarmament probably would fol
low. He declared the situation hadn't been changed by
his order to go ahead with hydrogen bomb work, adding
that there isn't any use to get all steamed up about it be
cause we're working toward a peaceful situation in the
world.
BY BECK
Life's Big Moment
J I WANT THE WHOLE CLASS TO SEE WjapjiSiS
f MERTON'S 0RAWIN3 OF THE ASTERACEOUS 1
V PLANT. I HAVE 6IVEN IT AN "A". THE rV
LIFE-LIKE C0L0RIN6 AND ATTENTION I
Vfc TO DETAILS INDICATES KEEN mrniri
OBSERVATION AND STUDV efllff
'I
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Taft-Hartley Act Has Made
Hero Out of John L. Lewis
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Irate Coal Miners Use of the Taft-Hartley act
couldn't have come at a better time for John L. Lewis or at a
worse time for the country.
For the first time in years there was real revolt against John
L in the coal pits. But not now. Now the Taft-Hartley act has
made him a
CAPITAL CARTOON
The Words of Rossellini
hero.
Miners ares
suffering from
the same factor
which hit thenu
before the war
o v e rproduc
tion plus in
creasing use of
gas and oil. But
they had been
on a short week,
had been trying
Drew Petrion
ever, Lucas can best be judged
by results, and the job he has
done of jamming the Truman
program through congress is
amazing.
Hopes The Lady Loses Cali
fornia's Rep. Dick Nixon, a
shrewd and courteous congress
man, has indicated that he hopes
a lady loses.
The lady is Congresswoman
Helen Gahagan Douglas, also of
California, who is running
paused in front
of a door which
read "Mademoi
selles." Informed by a
French student
that "Mademoi
selle" is French
for "Miss," the
confused gentle
m a n thanked
his informer and
walked through
Cbrli Kowlti, Jr.
KRISS-KROSS
Take a French Dictionary
With You to Legion Club
ByCHRISKOWITZ.Jr.
Better brush up on your French before visiting the American
Legion club at 2650 South Commercial street. Short slogans,
written in French, appear on table tops, wall oorders, etc.
French is also used to designate the gender of certain rooms
in the establishment. One man who speaks strictly English was
observed as he
Looks like we started our
"icicle derby" too late. The
same day we asked for reports
on the length of icicles, weather
warmed up and melted them all
away . . . Man on death bed
two weeks ago requested that no
flowers be sent to his funeral,
but that friends and relatives
contribute to March of Dimes
instead. He died next day, and
since then dozens of checks in
his memory have rolled into
nearby door which read "Mes- Marion county Dimes headquar-
dames." ters at 409 Oregon building.
Note: As you will recall from
your high school French, "Mes- Anybody got a spare pocket
dames" is the French equivalent calendar? Harry Levy, State
of the title "Mrs." street meat merchant and veter-
an announcer at local boxing
Typographical en ors will nev- matches, can certainly use one.
er cease to be amusing. Leo C. Harry stepped into the ring at
Dean of 1737 South Church the armory Wednesday night to
street sends a clipping, and en- announce the next amateur box-
closs the following notation, ing program,
which is self-explanatory: Harry knew the next fight
"Note with apprehension sev- program was exactly three
eral cases of broncho pneumonia weeks away. Wednesday being
in Tuesday's Capital Journal the 8th, Harry simply added 21
communicable disease report, days (3 weeks), and announced,
Sufferers were no doubt exposed "The next fight card will be
to malady by riding horseback. February 29."
Suggest Governor McKay ap- He almost got away with it,
point Senator Morse, Justice too. It was several minutes
Douglas and Oswald West as before someone remembered that
committee to cope with menace." 1950 is not a leap year.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Clay's Account Reveals Basis
Of Eventual East-West Split
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
((P) Foreign Affair Analyst)
General Lucius D. Clay, former military governor of the Amer
ican zone in Germany, discloses in his book "Decision in Ger
many" (Doubleday) that there was a time during the Russian
blockade of Berlin when serious consideration was given- in Wash
ington to withdrawal in face of the Soviet pressure.
My colleague!
to negotiate which is what the against Sen. Sheridan Downey
Taft-Hartley act provides for. in the Democratic Senatorial
Now they're required under a primaries. And the reason Nixon
compulsory law to do what they hopes sne ioseg js that he, Nixon,
were already willing to do. js planning to run for the senate
Taft's Money Republican Na- on the republican ticket, and
tional Chairman Guy Gabrielson Downey would be easier to beat,
has received a lot of gripes
about the money pouring into NO 1MIGRATION
Sen. Robert Taft's campaign. BY RELIGION
The complaints come from re- Forrest Donnelli the conscien.
publican candidates outside Uous Missouri republican, re
Ohio, who claim they can t raise ceml kiUed a dlscriminating
funds because local fat cats are feature in the diSpiaced persons
being touched for Taft's bene- bm u happened in a closed.
fit. The Taft crowd is sending door im o a fe Ju
oui cuam ieuci uiBn.B umi a Hlriwv committee, where Bon-
Taft defeat would be "a com-
nf,n,r ,kitn
p.:i.e auiicimu i .i chairman Pat McCarran ex-
not eventual communism.
Playboy Communist The
playboy of communist China,
Gen. Chen-Yi, is in trouble with
the more Spartan Mao Tzertung,
because of his lavish parties and
a string of concubines. Early in
December, General Chen gave
plained his D.P. bill in a pip
ing voice.
After reading the formula for
admitting displaced persons in
proportion to the per cent of
Americans with similar religious
and national origins, McCarran
the biggest whoop-de-do parties wheezed: "Any questions."
Shanghai has seen for a decade.
"I object," said Donnell firm-
Stories drifting out of Shang- ly.
hai to the U.S. intelligence say McCarran looked as though he
General Chen had nine houses had been slapped by his best
and as many concubines, before friend. "I do not like this reli-
he was dressed down by commu- gious-proportioned thing," spoke
nist superiors. up Donnell stoutly. "For 15U
Dour but Efficient Sen. Scott years we have had the principle
Lucas of Illinois, who looks as of separation of church and state,
if he were sore at the world, but Man should be treated as an
isn't, is doing a bang-up job as individual and not as a member
majority leader though he of a minority group. He should
won't get credit for it. not be discriminated against be-
Few majority leaders ever do cause of his religion."
until they are promoted up- Tnere was a cri0rus of support
stairs to become vice president. from other senators, and the
Even the now beloved Barkley McCarran formula was knocked
was me ODject or unceasing
brickbats as floor leader. How-
out.
(Copyright ltu
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Hal's Got That Mottled
Feeling; He's a Horrible 39
By HAL BOYLE
New York W) There's a noisy robin in the tree, showing his
suntanned chest and bragging about his winter down south.
The rheumatiz is letting up, the pneumonia people are putting
away their penicillin, and spring is hollering around the corner
like a tomboy.
Bald taglesOughttoBeShot,
Alaskan Tells Committee
Washington, Feb. 10 U.R Members of the house merchant
marine and fisheries committee sat in stunned rilence.
An Alaskan, C. R. Snow of Ketchikan, told them all the bald
eagles living symbol of the United States of America ought
to be shot.
He said they were eating up Roadie Edge, chairman of the
the Alaskan grouse, salmon, Emergency Conservation Corn
rabbits and even housecats. mittee.
Snow was one of four Alaska "The American eagle is a sight
sportsmen who testified before to stir the patriotism of every
the committee against a bill to loyal American," she added,
extend protection to the bald Alaska pays a $2 bounty on
eagle in Alaskan territory. eagles shot down.
"The bald eagle has done no- Kenneth D. Morrison of the
thing to merit idolization or National Audobon Society, ap
being made into a totem of the pealed for "preservation of tha
American people," Snow as- eagle as a tourist attraction."
serted. Daid eagle soaring maj-
Representatives of the Nat- estically against a blue sky has
ional Audobon Society, the Nat- economic value that is seldom
ional Wildlife Institute and the appreciated," he said.
Fish and Wildlife Service made
wry faces and squirmed. Washington, Feb. 10 U.R
Snow went on: ReP- Edward T Miller, R., Md.,
"The U. S. has become the 5"" a"gar fTL
- Alaskans charge that the Bald
nation it has because of men, j . unw0r!hy "as a symbol
who on battlefields, m congress osour t nation and ht
and in the courts have fought to jQ e
establish and preserve the rights ,,,, ' ....
and liberties we now enjoy. 1 amazed that anyone
, , , , , .... would make such a statement,"
j. lie edgic uau iiu yai v 111 ihcbc ng said
activities."
"The unicorn and the lion
"It is incongruous that AI- have for centuries inspired
aska should ask to be admitted British patriotism. "The Amer-
to statehood while engaged In ican bald eagle serves equally
this extermination of the na- as well,
tional emblem," observed Mrs. "Long may she fly."
Wes Gallagher
chief of bureau!
for the AP
Berlin and one
of the best in
formed observ
crs I
commenting
tills revelation
points out thai
"Western resist
ance to the So
viet blockade of
know, inj
on
would have been a break be
tween East and West no mat
ter what the West tried to do.
He expresses the view, how
ever, that perhaps the crisis
wouldn't have left Germany di
vided if the French hadn't con
sistently opposed creation of
four-power agencies iri 1945 and
1946 as provided by the Potsdam
conference.
"The best part of the book,"
cave Woe nulla CThite "norhone ! cr
Berlin turned out to be one of tnat dealing with' the Soviet
It is a spring
I never thought
to see, bringing
a label I never
wanted to wear.
Oh, hateful, dir
ty, 1 c e-in-the-heart
February,
why did you
have to come
this year?
Year after
year after year
old F e b r uary
comes a-haunting me, saying,
tan
rible 39. It is the year of the
great divide that separates the
boys from the men, youth from
middle age. It is a time when
you are too old for nonsense, and
too young for wisdom. Thirty
nine is just zero.
When you are 40 you give up
and start carrying an umbrella
when the skies clabber, and you
never miss trains and you save
string and you put $2 in the bank
every week. You buy your last
insurance policy, go to bed early
"Look, pal, don't turn away every night and begin giving
you know me. I'm your birth people under 40 advice on how
month, remember? Now you
are a year older. How do you
to live a full life.
Oh, it's a smug thing the age
like it, kid? Feel a little frost of 40 is You accept the disci.
in your veins?"
pline of time and put on the
DeWitt Mftckentt
the chief victories in the East-
West cold war.
blockade of Berlin, although it
ic rnmnQrotinal.. .hn.t fin.,
Of the book as a whole. Gal- mtle o nis t in ordering and
laghcr gives this expert opinion: carrying through the airlift, nor
The general s account of his does he claim credit or the Ber.
four years as deputy and then jin stand, although it has long
military governor of Germany is been known he was the chie(
by far the most authorita- author of the poli Berlin must
live book on postwar Germany be held at all costs.
yet published, if for no other .. . . ,
reason than that the general was . , ' ne P01"' " , ,h,e
a participant in virtually every blockade CTay thought he detect-
vital decision taken from 1945 d apprehension on the part of
to June, 1949." Secretary of the Army Royall
Generay Clay withholds a lot """" ""J"1
general stated:
"I do not believe this means
war . . . please understand we
are not carrying a chip on our
shoulders and will shoot only
for self-protection. I do not
believe we will have to do so.
This time I do. And if I could brakes for the long downgrade
kick a month in the seat of its coast. You read the obituary
pants it would be February page before you turn to the
this February of all the Febru- comics.
arys I have known. For this time But what can you at 39i the
that filthy, snow-souled month year that beats you on the anvil
crept up on me and said through of despair? There you are
its icicles: a-straddle one yearning foot in
"Tag, you're it, boy. You are youth, one fearful foot tentative
now 39 years old." ly reaching for the other side of
"No! No! No! No! No! No! Ne- the hill. And mentally you're
which we wish he might have
revealed.
However, he gives us such
meaty bits as these:
The late John Wlnant,
America's, wartime ambassa
dor to Britain, participated In
the four - power negotiations,
and he was the one who op
posed demanding specific legal
guarantees of accss to Berlin
from Russia. He thought such
demands would make the
Muscovites suspicious.
This failure gave the Rus
sians their opportunities to im
pose the Berlin blockade.
ver!"
"Yes!" said February.
"Since when?"
"Since now," said February.
"But it started a long time
ago."
Thirty-nine? Me- Why that's
a terrible figure.
It's as bad as February itself,
up in the air, caught ih a two-
way tug.
Just what can you do? It is
foolish to start dreaming of a
pension, and on the other hand
you no longer run up stairs two
at a time. It is a mottled feel
ing to be 39.
Pray be kind, good folk, to
anyone at this difficult pinpoint
and if February were on the 0f his history. He knows not
radio nobody would sponsor it
Even Russia doesn't want it.
what he is, he won't face what
he is becoming, and there is no
A little later Royall said he
would like Clay's views again,
although there was no change in
the army's view that America
should stay in Berlin.
Here was General Clay's
reply:
"We have lost Czechoslovakia.
Uencral Clay records that Norway is threatened. We re
Ambassador Lewis Douglas re- treat from Berlin. When Berlin
signed in 1945 as a top figure falls, Western Germany will be
in military government because next. If we mean to hold Eu-
he believed the American di- rope against communism, we
rective for handling Germany must not budge. We can take
was virtually unworkable. Clay humiliation and pressure short
holds that the directive failed of war in Berlin without losing
"to grasp the realities of finan- face. If we withdraw, our po-
cial and economic conditions sition in Europe is threatened,
which confronted us." "If America does not under
stand this now, does not know
that the issue is cast, then it
never will, and communism will
run rampant."
What good is 39? In terms of way for him to crawl back to
dollars it won't buy a good suit what he was.
any more. In terms of cents it There should be a sabbatical
won't buy a lunch. As a score, ieave from iife for aU men at 39i
it won't even win a basketball hotel or sanctuary into which
Same. jney couid creep and go through
And in the matter of telling their moulting period in silence,
your age? it is no good either. Thirty-nine? Me? It is a
Only a man would admit he was bleeding time.
39. A woman is too smart. Eith- don.t mnd being old, but I
er she is 35 or she is 45. No hate to be undecided. And 39
woman ever was 39. is the year of indecision. It
But here I am at this fatal should have happened to a
masculine figure horrible, hor- younger man.
Cops in Tear-Jerking Scene
Clay's account of negotia
tions with Russia leaves one
with tha impression that there
Camden, N. J Feb. 10 (IP) Six detectives stood In their
headquarters at Camden City hall yesterday with teari
streaming down their faces.
A great tragedy? A frustrating crime
No, nothing like that. Seems Detective Sgt. Clifford Carr
opened a tear (as cylinder marked empty.
It wasn't.
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