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4 Salem, Oregon, Thursday, February 16, 1950.
To Curb Labor Monopoly
The anti-trust bills were enacted to curb monopolies in
interstate commerce. At that time labor unions were com
paratively weak, in membership and power, and as their
avowed and exercised activities were the securing of higher
pay and conditions for workers in industries exploiting
workers, organized labor was excluded from anti-monopoly
provisions.
Since then for political purposes, the original intent of
the law has been extended to cover all kinds of organiza
tions for doing the very thing the law was intended to
accomplish, such as cutting living costs to public, like the
A. & P. store chain, and the doctors for providing cheap
prepaid medical services, and even for bigness, like the
DuPonts.
In the years since, especially since the advent of the
New Deal, labor unions have become among the biggest
monopolists of them all, controlling the entire labor supply
in nearly every industry with untaxed millions in their
treasuries and exercising their new-born power with the
same tyrannical recklessness that the industrial monarchs
practiced in the old days, exercising their might through
pressure groups and purges on public officials.
Financial statements showed that the CIO Steelworkers had
a net of over $8 million including $4 million in cash before do
nating half a million to the striking United Mine Workers. The
latter's last report, 1948, showed over $13 million on hand, the
welfare money being kept in a separate account. The United
Auto Workers CIO assets total $4 million plus a separate assess
ment of $1 per member for the Chrysler strike fund. The Rail
road Trainmen has assets of $55.5 million, but $50 million are
in insurance and benefit funds. The Teamsters AFL, has $20
million assets, $6 million in cash. The Typographical union
has assets of $16 million, even after huge strike expendtures.
Senator Robertson (D., Va.) is pressing his bill to curb
"the monopolistic powers" of John L. Lewis and other labor
czars by making labor unions subject to the anti-trust
laws, if they restrained trade unreasonably in industries
affecting national health and safety.
Robertson declares that Lewis is "vested with monopo
listic powers" and using those powers to control the pro
duction as well as price of coal. This is the effect of the
three-day week, he asserts, and tends to drive out small
business and put "remaining big business under the control
of a monopolist."
Robertson said that actually Lewis' "control of production
and prices" has spread to allied industries "and has had a seri
ous impact upon our whole economy. The country has refused
to accept monopolistic dictation by industry leaders and it should
not be required to accept any such dictation by a labor leader.
In fact, no business combination of which I ever heard has
achieved the kind of arbitrary power and control that John L.
Lewis now possesses and wields. This country cannot tolerate
dictators government or private."
Corrective legislation is certainly needed not only for
the public welfare but for preservation of the rights of the
Individual. .
Paves the Way for the New City Taxes
The Oregon supreme court has unanimously upheld Port
land's new taxes on business and professional men in a deci
sion written by Justice J. 0. Bailey, that also held that
the 6 percent tax limitation applies only to property taxes,
thus settling a long disputed point and upholding the de
cision of Circuit Judge James W. Crawford.
In addition the opinion also held that separate referen
dum attacks have to be made on each law or ordinance in
volved, thus making it illegal to combine several laws or
ordinances in the same referendum petition.
The court said that the 6 percent constitutional limita
tion means that the state and local governments are al
lowed to raise in taxes during any one year a sum which
is not more than 6 percent more than the highest amount
raised on any of the preceding three years and that it does
not apply to state income taxes, only to the money raised
by property taxes.
Said Justice Bailey: "There is nothing in the record
before this court which would justify us in holding that the
license tax imposed upon various classes of businesses,
professions, trades and callings is in violation of the equal
protection, due process or uninformity clauses of the
state and federal constitutions."
The court's decision opens the way for other hard-pressed
municipalities to install city taxes on business and pro
fessional men. similar to those of Portland and the neces
sity of separate referendums on each tax ordinance makes
a popular referendum against such taxes impractical if
not impossible.
700 Democratic Dollars for This
Washington, Feb. 16 W) Here's the menu for the demo
crats' $100-a-plate Jefferson-Jackson day dinner tonight:
Texas rink Grapefruit An Kirsch
Celery Queen Olives
Broiled Filet Mignon, Bordclaisa
Ponimcs Rissoles
String Beans Provencals
Hearts of Lettuce, Koquefort Dressing
Fancy Ice Cream
Petits Fours
Demi Tasse
Rushing Around in Rushville
Rushville, Ind., Feb. 16 (u.RWhen the Coree Pounds'
home caught fire, the family and neighbors tried to or
ganize a bucket brigade. ,
They could find only two buckets.
The Manilla fire department sped to the scene but got
lost. When it finally arrived, firemen discovered the hose
had Jolted off as the truck rumbled over bumpy roads.
The house burned to the ground.
'Refund' from Parking Meter
Orange, N. J., Feb. 16 W) A woman driver dropped a coin
into a parking meter yesterday, then yelled for police.
Two policemen responded and obligingly opened the meter's
coinbox and returned her coin.
Sh ehad told them that Instead of a penny she put a $2.50
goldplece In the meter. She had been carrying the gold piece
as a goodluck charm.
BY H. T. WEBSTER
How to Torture Your Husband
if P
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Democratic Campaign Dollars
May Make Party Too Fat
By DREW PEARSON
Washington The big democratic dinner in Washington tonight
contrasts sharply with the republican box supper ten days ago.
It will be the biggest banquet in the history of the world even
bigger than the banquet once given to Julius Caesar. If the demo
crats are smart, however, the contrasts will be a red flag of
warning.
popular Bill Pawley, ex-ambassador
to Brazil, te the December
2 New York dinner. At that
dinner, Pawley took four tables.
Cost: $4,000.
Pawley, a great friend of Bob
Hannegan, made a big killing
after the war when he bought
surplus planes from the British
in China, turned round and sold
them to the Chinese. Since Paw
ley made the deal outside the
U.S.A., it was tax free so he
raked in a handsome profit.
More recently, Pawley has
been pulling wires to help the
Nationalist Chinese to whom he
sold these planes. A good demo
crat, high in party councils, his
BY CARL ANDERSON
Henry
4
KRISS-KROSS
Pinching Cops' Noses More
Fun Than Kicking Kigmies
The demo
cratic dinners.
costs $100 per
plate not a
bad idea to raise
political money.
But what's hap
pening is that
the fat-cats who
once backed up
the republicans
now flock to the
democrats, for a
very simple reason: The demo
crats have power.
In other words, included
among the guests tonight will
be a few who have income-tax
cases to fix, who want to get a
government contract, who seek expensive four tables at the Wal-
to influence White House policy dorf dinner may have had no
or are angling for an airline business motive. And it should
franchise. Two tables seating be noted in fairness that if Paw-
ten guests each cost $2,000 and ley tried to use political influ-
Drew Pesrion
By CHRIS KOWITZ.Jr.
sometimes the investment
worth it.
It used to be that the big
money boys flocked to the re
publicans, but exceut for the
ence with Truman and Acheson
re China, it didn't work.
I Kt I.m. m l V,u ...
CARL- O
Miracle Man Sonnenberg
When Charles Luckman,
the
Tuning ufill opt mnrp satisfaction out of ninchinE a COD'S nose Very faithful a lot are nOW ripnnspri par nf T.pvpr Brnthorc1
than he will in kicking a kigmy. At least downtown Salem switching to the democrats, inis soap empire, raps the gavel at
Yachats, shimmied to top of pole
and recovered it.
Woman admires display in
local flower shop window. Re-
shoDDers apparently think so.
A local department store toy counter has been featuring rub
ber kigmies, which, like the characters in Li'l Abner comic
strip, are do
signed to be
come recipients
of swift kicks in
the sternmosti
section of their
anatomy. Sign
advertising nov
el toy reads
"Kick Me and
You'll Feel Better."
Alongside re-1
plicas of kig
mies were group of minature po
licemen with round, red noses.
Sign read, "Pinch My Nose and
Hear Me Holler."
Cop counter was emptied
quickly by eager shoppers with
yen for pinching . . , kigmies
are still waiting for well-aimed
boot.
doesn't mean that they are really the hie ripmnpratip rfinnpr tn.
for Truman. They just think it nighti it wiu be a triumph for
pays, a roly-poly little man with a
But the danger to the demo- high-buttoned coat sitting in the
crats is that when any party audience
gets indebted to too many fat- Re '
cats, it starts riding for a fall. s ,,.. ,hn.u.
public-relations mir-
Likewise when the republicans acnieved
marks on how perfectly-formed box-supper class, it will start . ehairman of th- two hie
the flowers are. Comments riding to victory O troubi dner, I cT. X
"My they're so nicely-shaped with the recent GOP box supper so when dem0'rats
you'd almost think they were was that it was superficial. The ? . . rfln tVl. -
artificial flowers." boys didn't really relish it.
ChrU Kowitt, Jr.
hold a dinner they figure on
"menus by Oscar and "chair
men by Sonnenberg."
The last New York dinner,
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Extremely Vital That We Know
About History of Our County
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
() Foreign Affairs Analyst)
Two little news items which cropped up within the past few
days have, by an association of ideas, been leading your columnist
a chase of speculation.
The first item had to do with the suggestion, made at a
meeting of the New York state council for social studies, that
schools spend
hoof.
Cute Salem General hospital
nurse drives downtown on shop
ping trip. Parks car in metered
zone, puts one nickel in meter
and another nickel under wind
shield swipe of her car.
With latter she places note
saying, "To whom it may con
cern: I will be a little late.
We ran across an old classi- Democratic Fat-Cat
fiprf rf ,hlph pffo "iior,pr Illustration nf hnw ripmnpratie . . . . . - "
. .. . ' " .. , . . ... y,, which netted the democrats more
pigs ior aaic. . . rail uogs on.ine ouiueis mV ...... than S2Sn OOfl as nrPsiHprf nvpr
North Carolina boy who rose to
be head of Sperry Gyroscope
and who, like Luckman, is a
client of Sonnenberg's.
To understand how the amaz
ing Mr. Sonnenberg was able to
perform this miracle of putting
his clients in front of the speak
ers' stand twice in a row, you
have to understand the gentle
man himself. And even his
wife says that is difficult.
Coming to this country from
Poland as a boy, Ben never has
forgotten his humble beginnings,
reminds his friends that his
grandfather was a rabbi and his
Old Look Preferred
Gardner, Mass., Feb. 16 (U.R) Maurice .Hurd was puzzled
when a thief stole his automobile from its parking place
in a group of late model cars.
Hurd told police his car was 22 years old.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Maryland Sawmill Worker
Breaks Bricks with His Head
more time on
c o n t emporary
affairs ard noU
so much on his
tory. It was ex
plained that for
many students
coming out ot
high schools
now, "history is;
a luxury."
The second,
V Q 1
Bv HAL BOYLE
famhrinVo MH fPlVnit never heard of rats that raise kittens? father a pushcart peddler.
Please put this nickel in the me- rw Foxes chasine does? Or about the fellow who's been breaking Ben represents some of the
ter for me." bricks over his nead for 30 years? biggest corporations in the coun-
The young lady doesn't know Well, come to Maryland's eastern shore. They've got 'em alP1 try Texas Oil, J. S. Bache jsf
just who to thank, but when here plus golden-fried chicken, beaten biscuits, oysters, and wfH Street, Remington-Rand,
j-iuuu iviurns ana j-iever croxn-
find in many books. He came ers. But he has a heart of gold
she returned almost two hours whistling swansrae
later, she found both note and in the Choptankfe -(fV
niplrpl miccinrr frnm .irin.Jc.hlnl.4 r T
no red showing on meter, and It is one of
no ticket on car. the most color-
ful regions ir
America, where
Henry Baer, foreman of wet descendants of
room at Oregon Pulp and Paper the men who
for 31 years, dons the ball and beat the Pil-!
tiioiu mis p.m. ine iaay wno grims across
Dccomes lorcman of the foreman still live close to
is Gladys Surgeon of 1975 North the sea and soil,
otn street. and earn their
bread from each,
1
If U
I Ial
out of the tidal marshes himself and never is too busy to help
to get his college learning, and out the nonpaying little fellow,
he loves to go back to the marsh- Though he takes good care of
es, for they never lose their tidal his clients, he is brutally frank
pull for their own'. in talking about himself, and
How can rat raise kittens, Mr. once explained his high stiff
Andrews? collar and tight-fitting coat this
"Oh, they're muskrats, and way: "I chose my clothes be-
their young are called kittens, cause I knew that whereever I
They have several litters a year, went, people would say, 'Who
"The muskrat is a wonderful in God's name is that?'
animal so clean. It lives . on "I don't care what they say
roots in the marshes, and it about me." adds Sonnenberg.
Th. r-h(o'i, t-ji washes every root before it eats "just so they remember me." It
Among prized possessions of Choptank means blue water lt'T ,,, mllctrot th t isnt he Rothes that make the
W. Paul Koontz of 2410 South used to be here, too," said Em- f "5? knw """krat ttiat n however. It's the fact that
Church street is a United States mett Andrews. "But they pulled ,could b.e ta,me " '.f,0"6 of thfe, he delivs.
flag, made in 1884 and con- up the bones of their ancestors few ammaIs that wlU naw off ...
taining 36 stars. Flag once be- and moved away te to ge ouif a a"d SENATOR TAFT'S OPPONENT
came stuck on a 125-foot pole in Andrews, a former high school ?J? JZl ?n Alhaped man with merry
i.aKeviiie, jnaiana. Koontz's principal, knows lore about wild , CJ"S, """ a
"ut-" ui tiic ociiaic uuuuuig. ill
"He's a very strong animal ex- front of room 332, Mayor Mike
cept at the tip of his nose. When Di Salle of Toledo, Ohio,-paused
you trap one, you just hit him and read the name, "Robert A.
across the nose with a twig, drop Taft."
him in your sack and go home. " "There'll be a new name on
You can kill one with a lead pen- that door next January," he pre-
cil by hitting him across the dieted.
nose." And in a whirlwind, three-day
And about foxes chasing dogs, tour of Washington, Di Salle suc-
Mr. Andrews? ceded in selling quite a few dem-
"Well, the hound dogs had ocrats that he could back up that
the foxes pretty well thinned prediction.
out here. But as the farmers To Secretary of Agriculture
began keeping fewer hound dogs Brannan, Di Salle said: "The
the foxes came back. farmers don't like Taft's less-
"One time a few years back than-parity stand, but they aren't
some foxes got tired of being an- sold on the Brannan plan either,
noyed by one particularly both- They don't know what it is."
crsone hound dog. So they just Of Secretary of Commerce
ganged up one day and turned Charles Sawyer, he asked: "What
on him and chased the hound does the administration have to
clear back into the farm yard offer the small business man?"
so the farmer said." To Undersecretary of State
H-m-m-m-mmm. And about James Webb, he observed: "The
the fellow who breaks bricks people deserve to know more
over his head Mr. Andrews? about foreign policy, and the
Why? the why of it."
"Oh, you mean Charley Wil- With Sen. Paul Douglas of Illi-
lcy? He started breaking bricks nois, he concurred: "I agree with
over his head 30 years ago as a you, the democrats must take the
stunt. He'd bet you a nickel he lead in cutting waste."
could do it all in fun. To Democratic Chairman Bill
"Once we told him as a joke, Boyle and scholarly Louis Bean,
'Charley, you used a soft brick the administration's political an-
that time.' So he cot a second alvst. the mavor SDOuted statis-
This convenience would be population that have clean rest brick and broke it over his head. tics. One contention he disnuteH
most sinacrely appreciated espe- rooms, and these towns do not and there wasn't much we could was that "Jumping Joe" Fer-
cially by we mothers who take have near the source of revenue do except pay over the nickel." guson, Ohio's wise - cracking
our little ones to town. I have that Salem has. Hasn't this ever hurt him? state auditor, could not be beat
seen many mothers with babies Atpr Bli is. Salem thp rani- "Oh, no, not as far as anyone in the democratic senatorial nri-
father, A. J. Koontz, now of life and gusty people you don't
Whiff of Million Dead Fish
Eric, Pa., Feb. 16 (IF) Did you ever get a whiff of one
million dead fish?
Residents living near Lake 'Erie have been having that
"pleasure" and they don't like it.
Since January 24 more than 1,000,000 dead mooneyes or
gizzard shad a non-edible fish shunned even for fertilizer
have piled up on the waters and beaches of the west
slip of Prcsque Isle bay.
A number of the fish are killed each year by the un
cleanliness of the water, but this year's crop is larger than
ever.
The city of Erie and the Pennsylvania fish commission
have been trying for days to clear up the problem and
the smell. Large numbers of the dead fish have been
scooped up in bushel baskets and taken to a dumping
ground.
But there are still a lot of mooneyes lying around.
OPEN FORUM
Rest Rooms in Downtown Salem
To the Editor: Many thanks go to James Vocglin whose letter
was printed in the February 13th issue of the Capital Journal
suggesting something ba done toward establishing rest room
facilities down-town.
This topic is a general discussion among all I meet in town
ana ot all my friends.
ment long has been copied by
budding nations abroad as an
example of democracy at its
best. If that is what America is,
how did she get that way?
It's a fascinating story of
colonial pioneering in a new
world filled with dangers and
hardships. It's a picture of dar
ing men and women hewing a
nation out of the wilderness
lahnrine with rifles handv as
which seemed " " - protection against the savages
to supplement the other, was enduring privations so grievous
from Boston, Mass., recording that often death was a welcome
that Mayor John Hynes had an- relief.
nour.ced cancellation of that Jn short it was an achieve-
city's annual dual observance of ment involving a major degree
the birthdays of Washington and 0f personal initiative.
Lincoln. Lack of public interest The pioneers coordinated their
was given as the reason. Last effortSi o coursei for mutUal
year only 32 people showed up advantage. They established cus-
for the combined event on Feb. toms and made laws or the
12 in Faneuil hall, "cradle of tection of al, But despite thati
American liberty. each individual stood squarely
on his own feet so long as he
Well, it certainly is vital for was able to stand. When he
everyone in school and out couldn't stand, the community
to keep close track of current intervened to help and safeguard
events these days when the his interests,
world is undergoing a political- However, while there were
social-economic upheaval. It is safeguards, there was no state
not safe not to, for our very na- paternalism. Within the regula-
tional security may depend on tions of the colony, man made
our alertness. Ms life what he would. If he
However, it strikes me that it was able to work and didn't
will be tragic if this effort of work, he didn't eat. The com
keeping track of history in the munity wouldn't support him.
making precludes a reasonable By the same token the corn
study of history already made, munity didn't interfere with his
As a matter of fact one is in- liberty of action, so long as he ,
clined to recommend strongly didn't intrude on the rights of '
that more time be spent in re- others.
viewing the development of our A man could work hard and
own great nation. make himself relatively rich, or
That might help in cataloguing he coultI Ioaf and make himself
some of the specious ideological relatively poor. It was up to
germs which are flitting about, him- He himself regulated his
seeking soft spots on which to famiIy welfare in major degree,
attach themselves. n short, he was his own man.
. That's the story of the build
ing of America's brand of de-
This country stands not only mocracy. It's a history which
as the richest and most power- all should know and not for-
ful of all time, but its govern- get.
Military Planners Expect 'Hot1
War to Be Fought in Cold Area
Washington, Feb. 16 W) U. S. military planners are taking
quite seriously the possibility that if there is a "hot war," fight
ing will take place where it is bitterly cold.
They are anticipating what can be done in event there are
major clashes with Russia in the Arctic regions.
This was disclosed in a house " r"
military appropriation subcom- search to Improve socks, mit
mittee report just released. tens, shoes for cold wet areas.
The report makes public in Col. Jack Finks of the army
part secret hearings on the quartermaster general's office
army's request for $4,018,384,- told the subcommittee that
000 of the proposed $13,000,- chemists are trying to develop a
000,000 defense budget for the way to heat clothing artificially,
fiscal year beginning July 1. He said the quartermaster de-
The army quartermaster de- partment has developed "a meat
partment is seeking $8,258,000 component for an arctic ration
for research and development that the soldiers will eat, and
alone. The requests are studded one that has great stability in
with research projects on how keeping a long time." Finks al
to enable the soldier to live and so reported that the army has
fight in the arctic. One such found it can store cooked bread
study dealt with ci.iditions in two years in the arctic.
wpctprn Gihpria
. . . . . w.uk&mH. nn,n . . .
j.uc ljuui iciiuaaiei turps IS
now working to see just how
light it can make a stove that
will help the soldier heat his ra-
....... a..u u..B ,a, of tn sta(t? Tms
could tell. He's 63 and a grand- mary.
in
or two just old enough to-walk accommodation any city should father now. Works at a saw- Mayor Di Salle looks like Paul
clinging to her skirts. Even nave, especially one so large mil1- Whiteman, has a round, jolly
mougn icrriDiy tirca ana the and prominent, and should be "Every year we hold an out- face, twinkling eyes, a brief
youngsters cranky, they have iookcd upon as a necessity. door shw here. Charlie goes moustache, and claims the open
to stand to wait for their bus, Wirl up on the stage and breal bU support of Mayor Burke of
no matter the weather. ' teen brought to the oublic's pine shinlcs over his head for Cleveland, plus the smile of
I. too, think the empty build- has bn b"uf Jtta public s aQVd He woudn,t migs ft Govern(jr ' Frank Lauschev Un.
r.g on Commercial would be aDT"0w11m e for anything. Had to this year daunted by the odds, he Insists
ideal for a terminal and rest Pa?" wU1 wrl,e w as 1 nave though sick." that he can beat Ferguson in
room and can't see why it should a ne- A headache maybe? the primaries and Taft in the
con much. I have seen towns MRS. RONALD A. HARLAN "Oh, no. I don't think Charlie final election,
of only four or five thousand 274 Senate St., Salem. ever had a headache." coruhi uhi
Much attention is given to
how to keep the soldier warm,
the type of food he would need,
eLTomen? T to "ZkP E tions' wa himsel ani '
mnrHsnL ?n clothes- The old standard stove
more usable in the severe wea- , j ,
ther that slows down man and ZuLs"I... "L"!
machine.
For examples, the army wants
The corps now has one that tips
the scale at one pound.
The study of how an Amer-
to spend $48,000 in developing ican soldier's equipment and
light weight, highly resilient clothing would stand up in
and durable filling material for western Siberia was one of four
padded arctic clothing. It wants done in 1949. The others were
to find a substitute for the for the near east, Africa and the
warmth of down in sleeping middle east. Similar studies
bags. have been made of Alaska and
It proposes to continue r- Japan.