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4 Salem, Oregon, Monday, February 13, 1950
Worse Than A and H Bombs
Dr. Albert Einstein, who ranks as the world's foremost
scientist and whose theoretical knowledge was needed to
make the atomic bomb, in the first of a series of tele
vision shows conducted by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, stated
that development and use of the hydrogen bomb possibly
could cause "annihilation of any life on earth" through
radioactive poisoning of the atmosphere.
Einstein called the present armaments race between the
United States and Russia "a disastrous illusion" and called
for peace moves to "do away with mutual fear and dis
trust." He said a "supra-national" body would be necessary
to carry out non-violent aims and that international con
trol of weapons would be only "of secondary use as a
police measure."
Einstein presented a general two-point formula for sav
ing the peoples of the world : a ban on violence among na
tions, "not only with respect to means of mass destruc
tion" ; the creation of a "supra-national judicial and execu
tive body (superior to any country) to decide questions
of immediate concern to the security of the nations."
,
Calling for peace moves to "do away with mutual fear
and distrust," Einstein said the present arms race be
tween the United States and Russia has developed a "hys
terical character." . . . "Every step," he said, "appears
as the unavoidable consequence of the preceding one.- In
the end, there beckons more and more clearly general
annihilation." ... A "supra-national" body is necessary
to carry out non-violent aims, he declared, and interna
tional control of weapons would be only "of secondary use
as a police measure.
The scientist said that the fact that the United States
first produced the atomic bomb created the illusion that
this country achieve security through military super
iority, but that it is impossible to achieve peace as long
as every single action is taken with a view of a possible
future conflict and urged "solemn renunciation of vio
lence." "Even a declaration of the nations to collaborate
loyally in the realization of such a 'restricted world cove
nant' would considerably reduce the imminent danger of
war."
It would of course if aggressor nations lived up to their
solemn covenants, but they don't and an agreement has
become merely a scrap of paper to be torn up at will as
experiency dictates. We have had many such agreements
for peace, but until reason and justice govern people and
their power-mad leaders, such consumation is an irides
cent dream. Such efforts as the Kellogg-Briand peace pact,
the League of Nations and the United Nations confirm their
failure.
Realism compels the admission that we are not yet
civilized enough to live in peace in a world still ruled by
hate, malice, prejudice and predatory instincts. And the
Russians, whose economy is based upon regimented slav
ery and slaughter of the innocents are frank enough in
their expressed beliefs and confirmatory actions, that the
entire world must conform by imperialist aggression to
their dictatorship or eventually face destruction.
Any nation that fails to safeguard its defense in the
existing chaos, is doomed for its pacifist appeasement
and unpreparedness to a living hell worse than annihila
tion. Let the Pacific Coast In on It
Oregon is put among those states which are still "global
minded." Holmes Alexander, the newspaper columnist,
figures that the Pacific Const and New England states
are still interested in what he describes as "overseas
adventuring." The midwest, he notes, is developing "a
growing revulsion" against the administration's inter
nationalism. Oregon will freely admit it is fully aware that what
goes on in the rest of the world affects the United States.
And what the United States does now will, in turn, affect
the rest of tha world.
That's perhaps why people from this part of the country
are baffled by the continued lack of a positive foreign
policy by the Truman administration toward the Orient.
Roving U. S. Ambassador Phillip Jessup, for instance,
puts out a warning that we would regard armed aggres
sion by Red China against Indo-China "as a grave matter."
But what can or will the United States do about it if Red
China's forces move down into Indo-China to get rice
to feed starving millions and add another satellite for
the Kremlin?
The Truman administration was full of ideas of what
to do in Europe when Moscow's influence was growing
so rapidly after hostilities stopped in World War II. But
the administration seems without ideas now on what to
do in the Orient or how to do it, despite Secretary of State
Acheson's recent ndmission that a calm, steady, persistent
American foreign policy is needed. The only thing steady
and persistent about U. S. foreign policy in the Orient
is that it is constantly non-existent.
Some Pacific Coast republican senators, including Ore
gon's Morse, have cautioned the Truman administration
about trying to form a bi-partisan foreign policy without
consulting the republicans until the policy is already
formed. In reference to affairs in the Orient, the G.O.P.
complaint doesn't hold up since there isn't really any
policy there. The blame for lack of a policy, nevertheless,
falls on Truman.
If top U. S. diplomats in the Far East are this week
drawing up an outline for some policy in those parts, the
president should confer with republican senators and
representatives before announcing a bi-partisan policy on
the Orient. And since the Pacific Coast is so interested
in the Orient, some western senators or house members
ought to be in on the decision.
Mongrel Comes Back Home
Chattanooga, Tenn., Feb. 13 U,R) Bruno, a three year-old
mongrel, surprised his master. Tommy Moon, 10, by walking
up and licking his hand over the' week-end.
Bruno's feet were bleeding and his eyes were swollen. He
had been lost since last summer, when Tommy's father look
th dog to Rock Island, Tenn. -108 mile from here.
BY H. T. WEBSTER
The Timid Soul
MILQUETOAST
pccidcs to CLOse
The window
' toy
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Top Republicans Get in Row
In Drafting PolicyStatement
By DREW PEARSON
Washington The basic differences inside the republican party
were not apparent in the new GOP magna charta issued last
week. But during a closed-door caucus of GOP senators, there
developed a significant clevage which will have to be reconciled
before the party can win any resounding victories.
When the pro- "
posed policy TTfmtk
St!
BY CARL ANDERSON
first presented Jns m
to the private s, m
meeting, Sen..
Margaret Chase
Smith of Maine t
complained that'
part of the f
statement had I
already been!
broad cast by .......
i- F
One hopefully pointed out the
state-control feature of the bill.
But Rayburn shook his shining
bald head and commented, "once
you start giving federal funds,
you get federal control, too."
NOTE The speaker is listed
in the confidential files of the
National Educational association
as "against federal aid, but a
good soldier who will try to
get the president's aid program
considered, without exerting
KRISS-KROSS
Everybody Benefited
Except the Middle Man
ByCHRISKOWITZ,Jr.
Wand-ads can work wonders in an astonishingly short time.
An instance in Dallas last week bears that out.
Frank Hobson lost two $10 bills in the Dallas post office.
Immediately upon discovering the loss, he went to the office of
the Itemizer-Observer, Dallas weekly newspaper, to place a
classified ad in:
ing baseball team for the up
coming season. Rod has a cou
ple of years of pro baseball un
der his belt . . . This morning's
rain came so hard and fast that
someone in the courthouse must
have thought the building was
sinking. The flag alongside the
courthouse tower was flapping
at half mast. At sea, sinking
ships fly their flags in that man
ner to signal distress . . . City
Electric Co. has intensified a
campaign to seek contracts from
other cities. Latest is a pact with
the "lost andi
found" section. I
Hobson got
more than
mild surprise.
when the at-!
tendant behind'
the counter, in
stead of takinp
the ad, t o 1 d
Hobson to con
tact Jim Has
Vf. "Pf 'l
I
Drew Pearson,
so it was urged that the senators himself.'
keep further details from "leaK-
ing to Pearson." However, here sfprftsi
is a brief summary of what hap- ATOMIC SECRETS
pened. It didn't leak out of that super-
Although nearly every sen- s.ecre,t meeting of the congres
ator had his own ideas on what "onalT at.omlc committee, but
the policy statement should say, G,e"' Lef'le Grovcs' wartime boss
it was Brewster of Maine and of the Manhattan project, lndi
Taft of Ohio who engineered the "ctly tried to pin the blame on
final compromise. President Roosevelt for atomic
... . leaks to Russia.
"If you agree with 80 per
cent of the statement, that is , Groves "te"detJ tha the
as much as anyone can expect," wouldn t have ocurred if
j tj..,oo. "Wo FDR had followed his advice
draft a statement 'that will suit ?nd insisted on a tighter screen- MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
everyone perfectly." "? '
, ,, , . scientists working . on the A-
The "young Turks," however, bomb 8 n
demurred. Their sharpest spokes- '
man was Vermont's stocky He also complained that Roo-
Gcorge Aiken who objected to " i"a 10 invue mm
thP slnr-an. "liberty asainst so- to. a meeting in Quebec with
Henry
LLin . i
- LAKE - JgdKS
OPEN FOB -Z
s SKATINSr
m. r-
I I 1 w i:..- r. t Vrii .
cialism" and urged instead, lib- Winston Churchill at which
A Little Learning Often Can
Turn Into 'a Dangerous Thing'
By DeWITT MacKENZIE '
(fffl Foreign Affulra Analyst)
The U. S. office of education says fully 45 per cent of Amer-
Chrll Kowlti, Jr.
senger of 1002
Main street in Dallas, and the
$20 could be recovered.
and Hassenger promptly handed The D.a? airPrt install run-
over the pair of ten-spots. He , """"s
refused to accept any reward.
Explanation: Hassenger had
4ri lnrl (ha Vtillo on1 rannrinrl 4 Via
finding to the Itemizer-Observer house lawn un.les someone puts
just a few minutes before Hob- an.ew Pa'nt f n Fo?
son came in to report the loss. . KIelff 18 donating space which
ncit. mi Hhcnn v,. ' would regularly rent for $25 per
newed confidence in honesty of month . Raleigh Morris of Scio
crtv aeainst totalitarianism." lm,c. scumy regulations were
drafted
you are making," he warned. ""'an nnen mcmanon 01 Jca.s smau and rural high schools still are or. me one-reamer
Aiken also condemned the Connecticut and Reps. Chet Holi- variety a statement which stirs burning memories for your
weak and viUat"ngstand on fTleld l Callfornia and Henry c0-umnist who long ago had to fight with his bare fists before
Z i,.Z ,nH L?TthP Jkson of Washington hotly re- he couid teach in one of these institutions of learning.
implied endorsement of high Jit wasTtVSo8 I was just out
tariff, But his loudest protest JJ tcide'd M
was over the statement on farm had been certified as trifstworth and 1o
, by the British govrnment. "nrincinal" (and
"rWur Poarsnn sava the re- . principal linp)
rr" v:;; . iney a.lso Dlun"y "minded staff) of a vu-
fV.i;.n;i.f...rWAi.. roves.,hat lf. Roosevelt had lage high school
iouowea nis advice and placed in my native
our own scientists in a strait New England
Foster-Kleiser
outdoor advertising firm indi
cates it will take down veterans'
memorial billboard on court-
the Brannan plan," tauted Aiken,
then proceeded to criticize the
uut- s equivocal gtana on co- jackct of miht discipline, My salary was
operatives and failure to endorse ,iuf u .:. j j , , I ,, "
mankind; (2) Hassenger feels
joy of doing good deed; (3)
However, things started off
well (too well for peace of
mind). The mid-forenoon re
cess arrived without untoward
incident. I stepped down from
my platform and walked into
the middle of the room where
the boys were gathered.
As I reached them they sud-
Groves also eot into hot water and taught a cmy performed a neat, maneu
ver iniimiimi that ik. ,.tj ,.n i,hioct School was in ver and I found myself en-
ators McCarthy of Wisconsin, ,-k , , ,,... , ,i hall huse circled. With that a strapping
Watkins of Utah and Young of duri and since the war ha(J room whjch in wlnter theoret- young farmer about my own
North Dakota that the GOP poll- been overplayeQ b the news. ically was heated by a pot- ag- and weighing 185 pounds
cy drafters agreed to insert REA papers A engineers he lm. bellied wood stove but practical- to my 145, stepped into the ring
the rural electrification admin
istration. Aiken's support of REA was
so vigorously backed up by Sen-
many might have resigned and twelve dollars a'.
we would have lost out in the week. I had ai
race for atomic supremacy. score of pupils'
hard to handle. It was no place
for a novice.
OeWIU Maokenslft
maraner dog
City's finally
in the magna charta.
plied, could have built the atomic ly was a polar waste.
and looked me over with a
Itemizer-Observer loses chance completed repair of parking me-
to sell want-ad. 'Bls """"b uy .u, . . .
, a , Another sign of spring: Man seen
Kross-Kut Section At least a"ying pussy-willows down
one Salem man has already start- Salcm street
ed growing a beard for next
spring's cherry festival. He's Now that a rumor has risen to
Pete Valdez, the renowned bowl- the effect that Omar Pinson is in
er . . . Rod Province also has Salem, there will probably be
put his razor away for a few dozens of people who'll begin
months. But Rod isn't growing seeing him again. It's odd how
his crop of whiskers for the cher- so many people in so many
ry festival. He hopes to join the places can see the same fugitive
bearded House of David travel- from justice at the same time.
bomb without the scientists.
Joining Aiken was Massachu- "That." remarked one eon-
setts' cultured Sen. Henry Cabot gressman, "would have been like
Lodge, Jr., who objected vigor- an architect trying to build a
ously to digging up the old skele
tons of Yalta and Potsdam in
order to criticize democratic for
eign policy.
"This looks backward when
we ought to be looking ahead,"
objected Lodge.
Lodge also charged that the
labor statement placed the great
est e'npbdsis on retaining the
home without a blueprint.'
(Copyright 1990)
tt ,!! with some treoidation aucy eye. Then he walked up
that I opened the first session to me and deliberately gave one
my initial experience "as a of my biceps a fierce squeeze
teacher. Some of the boys were with iron fingers.
tough, and the school long had It was a challenge to corn
borne the reputation of being ba- My athletic training had
Deen lor me nan ana quarier
How Big Must a Cubicle Be to
Be Considered as a Bedroom?
By ARTHUR EDSON
Washington, Feb. 13 (IP) The senate, where the talk often
mite runs, but this didn't seem
to be the time for running.
There was only one thing to do,
with that gang standing around
me. So I mustered a grin and
told my farmer to come on.
He did like a whirlwind.
He was so much heavier and
It's the Husband Who Pays
Vale, Ore., Feb. 13 (IP) Sheriff John Elferlng will be mail
ing the letters his wife hands him for dropping in the corner
postal box more promptly hereafter.
If he doesn't, lie may pay another fine.
There Is no law regarding mailing the letters, but the
sheriff paid a $750 fine when his wife was brought into jus
tice court on a charge of driving without a license.
In Elfering's pocket was an unmailed letter soiled by
several weeks carrying which contained his wife's applica
tion for license renewal.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
'Gaffers' Are Aristocrats of an
Ancient Art-Glassbiowers
By HAL BOYLE
Corning, N. Y. VP) America is full of all kinds of gaffers, but
it has only a dozen or so like James E. Janson.
A "gaffer" is a master glass blower, and he is a vanishing type.
For glassmaking, like most industries, has become heavily
mechanized. In the sprawling Corning Glass Works here machines
have been de-
I asked Janson how long it
had taken him to learn his craft.
"A lifetime," he said. "I start
ed learning as a boy from my
father, who was a glass blower.
But you never stop learning. We
learn something every day."
All glass used to be made by
hand. Then it was blown into
molds. Then machinery took
over most of the work.
"But hand-made glass will
never die out," said Johnny
name of Taft-Hartley, instead of tends to be high and 1iighty has come down to a subject dear stronger that he broke through
corrjcKng me injusuces oi iau- to the heart of everyone who ever went house hunting,
naiuey. For recentiy ;t debated this stirring question:
Senators Ives of New York How big does a cubicle have to be before it properly can
and Smith of Maine also lined be considered a bedroom?
up with the "young Turks," but Alas, how often I have gone it will take for seasoning."
when the question of adopting to what the ad called a three- "How manv bedrooms do these ever, he was slower than I and
my defense and hammered my
body, while that ring of boys
looked on silently. He sure did
hurt, and for a time I took the
worst beating of my life. How-
velopcd that
stamp out 37 -
000 different
glass products
for home, fac
tory and labora
tory use.
But in one
corner a half
dozen oldtime
gaffers still lurn
out exquisite
pieces of hand
made Steuben glassware, that "They will always find someone
sell anywhere from $20 to $1,- to make it."
000. The company he is employed
They are the aristocrats of an by hasn't found it easy. A few
ancient art, and Janson the years ago they sent scouts
workers call him "Johnny" is through the West Virginia moun
one of the best. tains, searching for experienced
gaffers in small glassworks
"I have been working with there. They couldn't find any.
glass for 55 years now," said Now the company is trying to
Johnny, who is 69. Like most train native American boys in
glassblowcrs he is Swedish. He the craft,
came to this country in 1901.
The gaffer bosses a shop of "It is like playing the violin,"
five or six men. Two or three said Johnny. "Some can get
bit gatherers collect molten glass farther along with it than others,
on long iron blow pipes. The But I am entitled to green pas
servitor fashions the base and tures soon like an old horse. I
stem from the red hot glass, and hope to retire next summer. I
the gaffer then takes over. have a lot of fishing to do."
Seated on a bench, he shspes Johnny's interest in glass
and finishes the glass, adding working doesn't stop when his
handles or decorative features day at the factory is done. He
with a pair of long applewood built himself a small experi
pincers. This requires artistry mental furnace in a basement
as well as top craftsmanship workshop. There he works out
for the gaffer must have an abso- new patterns in glass for his
lute sense of form. And he has own pleasure. He has them all
to work speedily. over tht house.
the policy statement was finally bedroom house and found one houses have?" asked Tydings. "lis finally gave me an opening
put to a voice vote, only seven so small it didn't have bed room Then as he read the statistics for his jaw. I mustered all the
or eight shouted "No." for a stoop-shouldered canary! from various builders, he gave strength I had and let him have
Remarked Senator Aiken aft- Senator Tydings (D., Md.), his own answer: 't right on the point of the chin,
erwards: "This is a great day chairman of the senate armed "Two, two, two, two, one and Tnat was it! He was out!
for the democrats." services committee, was arguing a half, one, two, two. The army Then I did a little grandstand-
for a bill which would provide house has three bedrooms." irg- I turned to the gang and
AIR VS ORATORY military housing at $16,500 for "Will the avenging angel turn asked:
, . " L , . ' . a three-bedroom house. the page a little?" Douglas "Any of you gentlemen like
Irate Secretary of Air Stuart Senator Douglas (D., 111.,) was asked. to try your luck?"
Symington spotted Undersecre- arguing that this was too high. The avenging angel would Nobody did, and I was glad,
tary of Defense Steve Early at a He figured that around $9,500 and Tydings did. because I had enough myself.
Washington cocktail party. would be a more appropriate But after studying the page But that wasn't the end of this
Just a few days before, their figure. awhile, Tydings again trium- strange incident,
boss, Secretary of Defense Louis (Editor's Note: The senate phantly trumpeted:
Johnson had made a blood and eventually voted that the houses "Two bedrooms, two, two, one, As soon as my farmer was
thunder "we-can-lick-the-R u s - should not cost more than an two!" feeling better he came to me and
sians-at-5-a.m." speech, while al- average of $13,000.) "Well," said Douglas, "how stuck out his hand. We shook,
most simultaneously Symington Douglas quoted figures to large are these army bedrooms end from that moment he not
was telling another audience prove his point until Tydings that Tydings was so proud of?" only was my friend hut was an
about our inadequate air de- broke in with "The smallest, Tydings said, ideal student. The rest of the
tenses. "I must say I take these figures "is 9 feet 6 inches by 8 feet boys fell in line and we be
So, at the cocktail party, Sym- with a grain of salt." 6 inches." came real pals. I joined in
ington demanded bluntly of Whereupon Douglas dumped a "That's not a bedroom," shout- their sports, and even used to
Steve Early, who is the great huge book on Tyding's desk. ed Douglas, "'that's an alcove!" go to the village poolroom oc
pacifier of the Pentagon: "What "Here are the figures from All of us house-hunters regret casionally to shoot a game with
in hell is this all about? I Private industry," Douglas said, that this didn't come to a vote. somi. of them. Thus we made
thought we were all together on "Tns book weighs three pounds. But at least we have been given erduring friendships,
policy. Then Louis gives this I am not sure how much salt a good line by Senator Douglas. I moved on to other activities
speech that makes me look like a' the end of the school year,
a fool." nPFhJ FDDIIAA and a new principal took over.
yrCfV rUKUVl He was a skinny cadaverous in
"TEACHER" SAM RAYBURN pA.f D divdual wth a chip on his shoul-
Speaker Sam Rayburn, who "CST lOOmS UOWntOWIl der. He had heard of the
taught a one-room school in the To the Editor: I am wondering why the city of Salem with a tl' 0ne-time, bad P"'3-
UUhnt" Z'IT PoPuion of fifty thousand people does not do something about " the Penin8, daJ
is hot against federal aid to , rest down-town for the people. ""J1 tlmf b the forelock,
education and makes no bones i was star,ding on North Commercial street the other dav Headdrsed he school:
aDout waiting for a citv bus. A woman with two small rnilHron 1 . understand that some of
The speaker even delivered a waitinB ror the bus. The children you. Doys are tough. Let it be
lecture on the subject to a group were cryirlg. The mother asked have the rest for people to get understood that I am boss here,
of club women, who were both mo whoro thoir rt t f iv, ik ..; s. 1 11 ake no nonsense."
astounded by his candor and ciose by and the only place their busses. .. Wlth that- he slammed his
charmed by his courtly manner, anywhere would be at a beer It could rent the front for a ?' on his desk- Well he lasted
In his slight Texas drawl, Ray- parlor. coffee shop and the city could th.ree weeks' The hy forth-
burn said: "I am not for federal i would like to see the city raise- the money to pay for the , h started to toke pot-shots at
aid to education. But I will do buy the building that is vacant building by putting a 25 cent m Wlth apple cores and what-
all I can to see that it gets a on North Commercial street tax on the water bill each not when his back was turned,
hearing in the house." where the city busses all stop month until the building was FlnaI1y thcy organized a grand
Reminiscing of his days teach- to leave and take on passengers payed for. JAS. VOEGLIN fina1.
ing country school at Dial, Texas, and put toilet rooms in rear and 248 S. 25th street, Salem They broke up a11 the furni
the speaker mused: "I didn't get ture and threw it out the win
much money teaching, but I did- Colnnpl Milpc Writhe Tlinrite dows- Wnen the r"t was over
n't organize and lobby to pres- V.VIVIICI IVUICS TTIIICS .1 HUIlKb the teacher had folded his tent
sure congressmen into getting To the Editor: I desire to express my appreciation to the and slipped away,
more pay." staff of the Capital Journal and especially to James Olson and
He made it plain he thought Ben Maxwell, for their fine presentation, both factually and pic- Not long ago I visited that
the clamor for federal aid came torially, of the Detroit Dam project. village again, just for old time's
principally from the National Upon return from my assignment to the Southwest Pacific, sake, and learned that some of
Education association and the I hope to again renew acquaintances. those tough lads became fine
teachers' union. J. W. MILES, " men and have gone far in suc-
The ladies suggested that per- ' Lt. Col., Corps of Engineers, cess,
haps times had changed and Resident Engineer Thus endeth on a happy not
teachers needed higher salaries. Detroit Dam Project another reminiscence.'
(