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4 Salem. Oregon, Saturday, February 18, 1950
k Don Quixote to the Rescue
Despite sobful and soulful pleadings, no Sir Galahad
searching for the holy grail has appeared to save Oregon's
Dame Democracy. Neither has any gallant young Loch
invar volunteered to carry her off in triumph. So William
M. Josslin has consented to be drafted to play her knight
in the roll of a Don Quixote to rescue the old gal as his
fair Dulcinea del Toboso and chivalrously tilt the wind
mills of horrendous republican chicanery.
Josslin is the chairman of the democratic state central
iommittee and will be remembered as a secretary of the
late Governor Charles M. Martin, who gained state renown
as "Pinky" because of his "crowning glory." His name then
was Gosslin. Why he changed a surname that to many
seemed appropriate is a mystery it's the same man but a
different name.
Gosslin never liked his nickname and once asked the
tapitol newsmen, "Why do you call me Pinky? My hair
is not red, it's golden." Then one of them replied, "All
right, we'll call you Goldy if that is what you want." But
they never did.
Josslin has sent out a long form letter to "fellow demo
crats" and the newspapers citing his long and loyal service
to the democratic party for 23 years, as "a Roosevelt sup
porter before Chicago, 1932, one of the original Harry Tru
man men in Oregon who never faltered. I helped draft
Mid now support the democratic state platform adopted by
jur state committee." To many democrats however, the
platform is not democratic at all but socialistic stateism.
And it was FDR's influence that defeated Martin for demo
iratic renomination because he jailed the labor goons in
Oregon and ended their reign of terror.
Josslin says in his letter that he not only served as pri
vate secretary to Martin, but "as legal adviser in effect
is assistant governor from 1935 to 1939 including serv
ice as the governor's contact man with the state legisla
ture." Which is enough to make the old general rise in
his grave with a familiar "damn you Pinky" for the ene
mies he tactlessly made for the governor.
Josslin concludes "as a 'good soldier' I am willing to meet
the challenge" and be a candidate if the democrats want
him. "What would be my prospects in your county? Do
you order me into battle?" He requires little urging for
the political bea has already stung him, and the GOP wind
mills better look out for Don Quixote, astride Sancho
Panza's donkey, his party emblem.
Truman Budget's Cost to Oregon
Oregon Business and Tax Research has figured out the
cost of the Truman federal budget for the next fiscal year.
The budget totals $42.4 billion and if adopted by congress,
the 1,700,000 Oregon residents would have to pungle up
about $432,480,000 or approximately $254 per person, in
addition to state and local taxation. This cost is over twice
the $198,436,710 collected in Oregon, 1948-49, for all state
miscellaneous and local property taxes.
Oregon's computed share of the proposed 1951 federal
budget is based on the state's contribution, on an allocated
basis, to total fiscal 1949 federal tax collections, which con
tribution was 1.02 percent of $40,847,609,000. Oregon's
allocated share of total 1949 federal collections was $414,
826,268. The taxpayer organization explained that "allocation" of
total 1949 fiscal year federal taxes included crediting each
state with all employment and individual income taxes col
lected therein, federal corporation taxes on basis of 1948
calendar year collections, and customs and excise and other
miscellaneous federal levies on a July 1, 1948, population
basis, a formula used by national tax research agencies.
The Truman fiscal 1951 $42.4 billion budget did not in
clude additional social security payroll "deducks" that
would be required to finance the broad extension of social
welfare, including socialized medicine, which would extract
more millions from Oregon workers and their employers.
Senator Byrd's (D., Va.), proposed $36 billion federal
budget would have balanced the 1951 federal budget, stop
ped the deficit financing and saved Oregon taxpayers about
$56,280,000, nn amount sufficient to give, for example,
each of Oregon's 23,332 old age assistance recipients, as
of December, 1949, $193 a month in addition to what they
then received.
Economy, however, seems to have been forgotten by
the administration and President Truman in his Jefferson
Jackson day speech went out of his way to attack its advo
cates and champion deficit spending.
BYH. T. WEBSTER " "
Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime
BY CARL ANDERSON
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SIX-THIRTY -TlWs . XfEV
THE FIRESIDE PULPIT
BY REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT
Rector. St. Paul' Episcopal Church
The season of Lent will commence next Wednesday. Lent
should not be approached with reluctance, but welcomed. Lent,
with its emphasis on temperance, meditation, and relief from the
pressure of social activities should bring that "peace of mind"
which is so much sought after but seldom found today. However
we keep Lent, there should be
a spiritual objective in mind, which takes up time, we should
Giving up something more or spend every minute of that time
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Baptist Truman Preaches to
Methodists; Wins Approval
By DREW PEARSON
Washington You have to have a card-index system these days
to keep up with the accusations of certain congressmen regard
ing communists in the federal government.
Unfortunately the average citizen doesn't have time to keep a
card index, so gets confused over harum-scarum Senator Joe Mc
Carthy's recent
Michigan, almost exactly the
same charges are shouted by
the republican senator from
Wisconsin.
Truman Preaches
With Bible In hand, Baptist
Harry Truman preached a ser
mon the other day to a dozen
Methodist ministers. He started
off by assuring: "Well, I am not
going to preach a sermon."
Nevertheless he fingered
through his Bible, read two
chapters out of Isaiah, and upon
this based his hope for the
peace and happiness of the
world.
"You said you didn't intend to
preach a sermon, but you have
actually preached an excellent
sermon," responded Bishop J.
Ralph Magee, head of the Me
thodist church in Illinois, when
the president had finished.
I am sure that all the gen-
apologies to him for ever ques-
to have Harry Truman fill their MdcKENZIE'S COLUMN
Drew Pearion
accusation that
there were 57
card - carrying,
communists i n
the state de-.
partment.
When the
senator from
Wisconsin f i n
ally was pinned
down, he could
produce not 57,
but only four
names of state department offi
cials whom he claimed were
communists.
A careful scrutiny of these
names is important. Of the four
accused by McCarthy, one, Dr.
' Harlow Shapley, at no time
worked for the state depart
ment. Two, Gustavo Duran and
Mrs. Mary Jane Keeney, resign
ed four years ago; the fourth,
John Service, was reinstated af
Observance of Lent Should Be
rl lL..:iJ: .IA...Ca..Ii. ter a Prolonged and careful in- 1 a" ure all the gen-
rOrUDDUIlainQOTWUrjOUIS vestigation and after virtual tlemen present would be happy
' annlnpinc in him fnr irtt mine- to have Harry Truman fill their
HI, t., Iw i. I.. l rrt
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tioning his loyalty. He is now PulP' any time he could find
servinc with the most anti-Rus- u Possible," added Illinois' Sen.
sian of all American diplomats,
Loy Henderson, U.S.
dor to India.
ambassa-
less as a stunt is
not keeplngf
Lent. A man "
once made a
pledge to give
up smoking dur
ing L e nt . He
kept the pledge, if
and proudly in
formed me o f i
his feat. I con
gratulated h i m
on his evident
r i i
with spiritual exercise, such as
attendance at services of wor
ship and instruction, or going
about doing good for others.
Lent is not the time to be lazy,
even though it is a time to be
quiet, a time to give the nerves
a rest, a time to think about
our responsibilities as Christ
ians, and to be more diligent in
carrying them out. We should
make of this Lent not a nega
tive thing, and not an empty
But there is even more inter
esting background behind Sen
ator McCarthy's charges. Some-
Scott Lucas, who had introduc
ed the ministers at the White
House.
This brought applause from
the ministers.
Truman went on to congratu
late them for coming to Wash
ington to study their govern-
what the same charges were ment, and suggested that more
people should visit the capital
to studv what the nrpsiripnt nnrl
gressman Bartel Jonkman of congress are up against.
made three years ago by anoth
er republican, this one, Con
Michigan, just across the lake
from McCarthy in Wisconsin.
"Mr. Lucas is carrying a very
heavy load on the hill, and it
strength of char-"' Swl" thing. We should resolve, among
acter, and enquired if it wasn't other things, to exercise temper
terribly difficult at times to ance in those things which hcre
keep his pledge. "Oh no," he tofore have had too great a
said, "Whenever the pressure power over us. We should seek
started I took a good chew of God's help in prayer, in regu
tobacco." lar attendance at services of
worship and meditation. We
Whatever we do or do not should work out a definite plan
do in our observance of Lent, for Lent, and stay with it. It is
whether it be abstinence or fast- important to work at one's re
ing, or doing definite things ligion. Inasmuch as we ourselves
over and above what we nor- shall be the beneficiaries, we
mally would do, it should be should welcome Lent, and give
for the upbuilding of our souls, it a chance to bring blessings to
When we give up something our souls.
Stranded Not Strangled
Canton, Miss., Feb. 18 VP) An ambulance sped to flooded
Bear Creek, near here, to pick up a man reported "strangled."
After arriving, the ambulance crew surveyed the situation
and then returned to town to call a wrecker. The man was in
trouble alright, but he hadn't been strangled. He was strand
ed. Girl's Wrestling Tactics Pay Off
Cleveland, Feb. 18 VP) A girl teenager who learned wrest
ling tactics by watching television routed a street thug early
today.
Marion Vllt, 17, told police that when the man grappled
with her, "I grabbed his index finger and bent it back hard.
He let go and I punched him twice. He ran one way and I ran
the other."
She also credited her brother, Don, a football player for
Bowling Green university, with teaching her some of the
tricks.
KRISS-KROSS
Salem's Wanderingest Mutt?
Why, Schneebles, of Course
By CHRIS KOWITZ, Jr.
"Bet that's our Schnceblcs," said a couple of members of the
Phi Delta Theta fraternity at Willamette university after read
ing about a mystery collie dog wandering about Salem's streets
making friends by the dozen.
No, Schneebles isn't a collie. In fact, he isn't much of any
one breed .
On Feb. 26, 1947, Jonkman would be difficult for me to
named two of the same alleged reach my objectives without his
state department officials assistance," Truman added.
Keeney and Duran even At a parting shot, the presi
though they were not then with dent reminded the visiting min
the state department. Jonkman lsters that his primary "theme
also hurled some accusations at in iife is t0 bring peace to man
Joseph Panuch, then deputy as- kind."
sistant secretary of state. Actu- ,.
ally Panuch was the man who IngrW Baby
eased out Keeney and Duran, n Capitol Hill, the big issues
but Jonkman attacked him any- of the day are not always dis
Way. cussed on the floor of the sen
. ,. . ate, but in the senators' private
As a result, Panuch sued restaurant. There, senators are
Congressman Jonkman and the franker than when their words
publisher of the Washington are rec0rded by a stenographer
Times-Herald for libel. The suit for posterity to read,
against the Times-Herald pub- . , ...
lisher had to be dropped be- . But '"thf .
cause of her death, but the con- today hottest topic is not Rus a,
, Viui nr China, nor surplus pota-
promised the suit with an offi- oe but Ingrid Bergman's
Virginia's Sen. Willis Robert
son is firm in the view that
society must frown on Ingrid's
illicit romance with Director
a truce in the
east-west cold
war.
Hard hitting
British Foreign
Secretary Ern
est Bevin prom
ptly dubbed
Churchill's pro
posal a political
"stunt", and?.
said agreemenl
should be pur-
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Council Pays Storage Bill
Redmond, Feb. 18 IP) Ted Bliss parked his automobile
here Jan. 25. When he came back later that day, it was gone.
Police finally found it for him. It was In storage, and had
been since last month. What's more he owed the storage bill,
for they had towed the car away after finding It in a no-parking
zone, they said.
Bliss objected he hadn't left it in a no-parking zone, and
didn't Intend to pay the bill.
The street-cleaning department then entered the confusion,
admitting It had moved the car while cleaning streets and had
forgotten to move It back.
The city council paid the hill.
Truman Whizzes Through Red Lights
Washington, Feb. 18 (P) President Truman whissed
through 20 red lights on a four-mile drive to the big demo
cratic dinner the other night.
It was all perfectly legal, because his car had a police and
secret service escort. Traffic regulations are waived under
such circumstances on the theory that a police officer carries
more authority than a traffic signal.
But only 24 hours earlier, Mr. Truman told a national crime
conference:
"I never go through red lights, despite the prerogatives
attaching to the presidency."
Well, They Do
Walthim, Mass., Feb. 18 (U.R) A woman seeking U. S.
citizenship papers did all right with the examination until
she came to s question about the flag.
To the query, "What files over the state house in Bos
tonT" she replied: "Pigeons."
3
just plain dogf
But Schneebles!
has passed forr
everything fronii
Hungarian wolfr,.'
nouncl to uoDer-
man Pincer.
Schneebles id
a mascot of thrl
Phi Deltas atl
WU . . . and nol
other dog in Sa- Chrii Fowiu. Jr.
lem gets around
One of our noble readers
writes in to say that our favor
ite newspaper carried an ad say
ing that Fulton Lewis, Jr., would
be heard at 9:15 p.m. on a cer
tain evening. Actually David
Rose came on at 9:15. . . . Maybe
whoever wrote the advertising
copy was just trying to prove
that a Rose by any other name
sounds just as sweet.
Man at policemen's ball Thurs-
more than he. Keeping up with day attempts to peddle tickets
Schneebles is about as hard as to another dance. Cops irritated,
keeping up with the latest trends but can't say much because they
in women's necklines. had pestered everybody they met
Schneebles spent the other for daJ's attempting to sell
night at the Senator hotel . . . tickets to their ball. Neverthe
a few days prior to that, he less, cops got last laugh. While
showed up at the only non-com- en route home later that evening,
pulsory chapel held at Willam- man who was trying to sell tick
ette. cts at dance is pinched for drunk-
He has followed many a Bear- e" driving,
cat halfback down the center
of the football field, and is liable Display in Hogg Brothers win
to come bouncing into a class- dow at 115 South Commercial
room or library at any time, street exhibits refrigerator and
When Schnceblcs gets bored cook stove with doors opening
with school activities, he simply and closing. Window attracts
goes for a walk . . . and how he much attention from passers-by.
can show up at Vista and Lana Interest centers on one item
avenues at the same time we'll the refrigerator light. By care
never know. ful observation from certain an
The wandering collie we re- gle, light can be seen to shut off
ported the other day, however, as door closes. At least 50 per
is not Schneebles. cent of those viewing display
Schneebles is a he. Collie is comment, "Well, the little light
a she. Maybe the two are meet- does turn off after all, doesn't
ing at some secret rendezvous, it?"
cial abject apology which stat- """J
cd: "it was not my intention to
accuse you of lying or of any
other improper conduct in con
nection with vour duties as de
puty assistant secretary of state "ODeno itossenini ana tne ma-
during your tenure of office." irtiy agreed. Privately, how-
The congressman also paid Pan- ever senators sympathize with
uch's court costs and, incident- Miss Bergman's right to live her
ally, was defeated for re-elec- own life-
tion. "I guess they must have fallen
. ....... . crazy in love," mused Texas'
But no, after both the voters elderly Sen- Tom Conally over
and Mr. Panuch took care of the his bcan soup
republican congressman from (coprriiht i50
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Columnist FindsCustomers
Are Always Finding Fault
By HAL BOYLE
New York VP) Writing a column for the newspapers is getting
to be downright perilous.
Our windy Mount Olympus is under siege. The readers are
fighting back.
It used to be a columnist didn't know where his next chunk
of caviar was coming from. Now'
he doesn't know whence the
next brick is going to be flung at
him. But he feels sure there
won't be a hamburger tied to it.
Latest case in
point is actress
Joan Bennett's
valentine gift of
a d e o d o r ized
skunk to colum
nist Hedda Hop
per, who her
ald's happenings
I n H o 1 lywood
Taking this ges
ture as a criti
cism of her lit
erary efforts, the
lady columnist gave the woods
pussy to a cat-fancier, murmur
ing on the "great affinity be
tween cats and skunks."
Personally, if anyone shipped
me a sanitary skunk I'd have
kept him and put him to work.
I'd tie him to my desk to scare
away press agents. Often these
disparaging presents sent to a
columnist by his riled readers
can be used to further his car
eer. Once a stranger sent me a red
dish blue glass ,eye, and I have
found it highly useful. When
the receptionist phones in to
say, "There's a man out here
mad at something you wrote,"
I tell her, "Show him in." Then
I quickly tape the glass eye on
to the middle of my forehead.
When I look up and say, "Yes,
what is it, fellows?" the man
takes one gander, wipes his face
with his handkerchief and walks
away. He feels, I hope, that any
one with three eyes can't be
blamed too much for anything
he does.
What wories me about the
Hollywood skunk valentine epi
side is that it sets a bad prece
dent. What if I unknowingly
wrote something that peeved
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.? I
might open my door some
morning and find a whole herd
of white elephants tied to it.
This would be hard to explain to
my apartment housemanager, as
he doesn't even allow eagles or
small dogs in the place.
From now on no columnist
can feel safe from the "indig
nant subscriber." The world is
full of animals from teetles to
buffaloes, and the columnist who
wittingly or unwittingly offends
his readers may shortly find his
home has become an annex to
the zoo.
It is easy to say, "Well, don't
write things that annoy people."
But just try writing a column
yourself and see how many days
you can go without making
someone angry. Anything you
write can stir up reader wrath,
even if you Just say, "etaoin
shrdlu, etaoin shrdlu," They get
the idea you don't like foreign
ers. My lifelong policy has been
to attack nothing but poison
snakes and sin. But when I did
criticize poison snakes in a
freindly way recently, a natur
alist wrote back: "Who are you
to pick on poison snakes? The
average poison snake destroys
more vermin than you do, ape
face!" There you are. Still intend to
attack sin one of these days.
But sure as sin itself somebody'll
write back and demand, "What
are you trying to do ruin my
business?"
Suggested Big Three Meeting
Brings Varied Views and Ideas
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
ilPI Foreign Affair Analret)
That hardy perennial the call for a meeting of Russia, Britain
and America in the interests of peace-n-is again in bloom and is
being viewed with mixed emotions.
None other than Britain's Winston Churchill raised this ques
tion during a speech in his general election campaign. He sug
gested a big three meeting on
the "highest level" to try for open to international negotia
agreement on atomic control and tion for control of atomic wea
pons, and he hinted that he
still had in mind a possible
special peace mission to Russia
at some future time.
Only last week Secretary ot
State Acheson in a sensational
pronouncement of foreign policy,
rejected all suggestions for new
American peace appeals to Rus
sia. Instead he based U. S. anti
communist strategy squarely on
a policy of power.
....... i. 'i nn wprpTnrv niv nn pvnpr-
sued through the lence had brought realization
atomic coramuuee i. c u,..u hlt progress towards peace
nations. A prop o s of Bevin s simply by making agreements
charge, observers noted that if wUh Rusgia ,s jmpossible- How-
Churchill's conservative party ever the soviet government is
should be returned to power he realistic and adlusts lts poHcies
would in natural course be wh(m compelled by facts t0 do
prime minister again As head of SQ go American baslc pollcy is.
government he would be in pos- To build situations whlch .
ition to initiate such a parley wM exten(J the area Qf possibIe
and this thought might attract agreement, that is, to create
votes now. strength instead of weakness
Howevei, others besides which existsin many quarters."
Churchill are advocating action.
Newspapers on both sides of the Moscow has given no sign that
Atlantic are editorializing vigor- !t desires to call off its cold
ously pro and con. n the contrary the evi-
There is of course no disagree- dence indicates that the Soviet
ment over the desirability of Umon " 8ln8 a11 out ' ts
reaching East-West agreement, drive to spread communism. And
However, there's a vast diver- what else can we expect, with
gence of views as to whether a Russia holding her gains in east
meeting of the big three would frn Europe and making sweep
be useful or,, indeed, whether in advances in the Asiatic thea
it even would be wise to try tr?j .... , . ...
to arrange one. Presumably Marshal Stalin
President Iruman at his news would receive a peace mission
conference yesterday threw cold courteously in Moscow and
water on the idea of a Big would enter discussion with it.
Three meeting abroad. He re- f ut th"e no reason to to
iterated that he doesn't intend to hevf, tha' such a conference
go outside the United States to would achieve peace,
meet with Stalin or any other ,n the contrary, many close
chief of state observers believe that Russia
Replying to a question wheth- would interpret Such a move by
er he thought the time had come the western powers as an act
to see Stalin, the president said o aPPesement.
he did not. Any mve which might be In-
terpreted as appeasement at
However, the president said this juncture might easily be
he would be glad to see anyone disastrous. However, this fact
who wants to come to Washing- shouldn't prevent our taking ad
ton to consult him. He declared vantage of every legitimate
the American door is always opening to achieve peace.
Of All Times!
Baltimore, Feb. 18 (U.R) Ralph Fleming who was aux
iously waiting for his wife to have a baby at the hospital,
stepped outside for a breath of fresh air and was promptly
robbed of $45.
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