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4 Salem, Oregon, Friday, March 3, 1950
Lewis Out-Foxes Mr. Truman
The change in President Truman since his re-election
was never better illustrated than in his handling of strikes
against public welfare. He acted promptly and vigorously
in his first term against both the railroad unions' walkout
and Lewis' coal miners, summarily ending the emergencies
they caused. He refused to recognize an emergncy existed
in the present coal miners' strike, refused to use the Taft
Hartley law's provisions for months and then fumbled his
opportunity.
Federal Judge Richmond B. Keech, formerly an adminis
tration assistant to Mr. Truman in 1945-46, whom he ap
pointed judge of the District of Columbia November 1,
1946, before whom the case was taken, after ordering the
mine workers' union to return to the pits, has ruled that
John L. Lewis, other union officials and the 372,000 mem
bers of the union were innocent of contempt of court for
refusing to obey Lewis had ordered the miners back, but
the miners individually refused to obey under the "invol
untary servitude" clause in the constitution, until their
slogan, "no contract, no work" is recognized.
Judge Keech drew the assignment of testing whether
an injunction of a United States court was powerful enough
to get coal mines operating. Coal miners said it was not,
and stayed away from the mines in the face of Judge
Keech's injunction. The judge, his order disobeyed, was
left with the problem of showing which was the more
powerful the law of the land or the strength of a labor
union. The union won out.
When a similar issue arose on two earlier occasions, the
law won out. Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, on those occa
sions, levied fines totaling more than $2 million against
the mine union, with supplementary fines against Mr.
Lewis as the union leader. Held in contempt of court, Mr.
Lewis and the union paid the fines and mining was re
sumed. But Lewis was foxy enough to order the miners
back this time so there was a different problem from that
faced by Goldsborough.
However, Goldsborough's action and opinion formed a
precedent which Kreech ignored. In one of his opinions, he
ruled:
"As long as a union functions as a union, it must be held re
sponsible for the mass action of Its members. Men don't act col
lectively without leadership. The suggestion that 350,000 men ,
would get the idea simultaneously to walk out collectively is,'
of course, simply ridiculous."
What solution the reluctant and procrastinating Mr.
Truman will arrive at to solve the emergency remains to
be seen but John L. Lewis seems to have proven again that
he is more powerful than the president of the United States
for the time being. But the president has created a
real emergency that may lead to a national economic break
down if not promptly solved.
Meanwhile the war of the goons on producing mines con
tinues, with tragedies mounting among those who believe
in right of men to work if they desire.
The 'Why' of Gl Insurance Dividends
A reader of the Capital Journal, Fred C. Taylor, had
asked how the federal government could have a "surplus"
of billions in GI insurance dividends to be distributed to
veterans. The technical question was referred to Con
gressman Norblad from this district who in turn tossed it
to the Veterans Administration.
. The answer covered both the philosophy and the princi
ples on which was based the national service life insurance
program of World War II.
The act, passed by Congress in 1940, provided that: First,
the U. S. government would bear all expenses of adminis
tration; secondly, the government would pay all death
and disability claims traceable to the extra hazard of mili
tary or naval service.
Congress apparently felt that expenses of administra
tion of the insurance plan should be carried by all tax
payers as an additional service to members of the armed
forces and to veterans. Furthermore, congress evidently
intended that the insured servicemen pay only the cost
of the insurance exclusive of all losses directly traceable
to the extra hazards of war. The disabilities and mortali
ties of war were charged to all the taxpayers as a cost of
war. The government contributed over $4 billion to the
insurance fund.
This is the way the Veterans Administration explains
why the dividend is not a bonus but a dividend:
"The special dividend of $2,800,000 now being paid arises
because the premiums paid by the insureds which were
intended to cover all mortality and disability claims ex
cept those traceable to military or naval service have, in
the light of experience, proved to be more than enough to
cover this risk.
"It is common insurance practice in the mutual insur
ance field to charge a premium that is adequate and con
servative to cover all possible contingencies, such as epi
demics, pandemics, and the like, and to adjust the pre
miums to the cost of the insurance through the medium
of dividends."
Actually, the dividend represents a distribution to the
insured veterans of that portion of the assets which
experience has shown not to be required to meet the cost
of claims not traceable to the extra hazards of war serv
ice. This was sizeable since administrative costs and claims
not traceable to the extra hazards of war were paid by the
general taxpayers. It represented the earnings under ap
proximately 20,000,000 policies, some of which had been
kept in force for the full eight years.
BV H. T. WEBSTER
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
'Phew Drearson Vaughan
Are Taken Over the Hurdles
By DREW PEARSON
Washington The circus saints and sinners in New York took
good old General Harry Vaughan over the hurdles the other day,
and also included a few sideswipes at yours truly.
In fact, they wrote a column, "Washington Merely-Go-Wrong,
by Phew Drearson," And in the spirit of good clean fun, I re
produce "Phew
BY CARL ANDERSON
Henr)
Drew Pearaon
KRISS-KROSS
Suggestions for New Form
Of Daylight Saving Time
By CHRIS KOWITZ, Jr.
With the annual early-spring argument involving daylight
saving time coming into prominence again, B. E. Braucht of
3620 Garden road comes up with a suggestion that has some
degree of merit.
Braucht believes his method of handling the time problem
during summer, -
monins w o u i u
provide ' work-
Drearson's" col- " ""W. 1 ?
umn forthwith
and herewith ,
below:
"It will be
denied, but I
have it on the
best of authority
that there is a
serious split in
the White House
family between
President Tru
man and his military aide, Major
General Harry S. Vaughan. The
cause of this cleavage is your
correspondent, whose offer to
apologize to General Vaughan
rocked official Washington yes
terday. "From sources that I have
hitherto found to be absolutely
reliable, I have learned that I
offered to withdraw all I have
said or written against General
Vaughan if President Truman
will withdraw all he has written
or said, especially said, about
me.
"Last night a closed meeting
was held at Blair House. Present
were Truman, Vaughan, and
others of the Missouri crowd.
of the scriptural injunction 'Let
him who is without sin cast the
first stone.'
"During the war did you ever
have to grease a sales manager
in order to get supplies to keep
you going? Before the war and
after did you ever have to slip
the price of a new suit to the
purchasing agent of some con
cern with which you wanted to
do business?
"Did you ever send your con
gressman a box of cigars? Did he
send 'em back? Is all the liq
uor in your cellar paid for or
did some of it come from guys
who you hardly knew but who
wanted to do business with you?
"How do you know but that
you may -need someone some
day, like General Vaughan, to
soften up your 'command per
formance' with the collector of
internal revenue?
"FIVE PERCENT ISN'T BAD
"Moreover, it's about time we
re-examined our attitudes to
wards the so-called 'five-percenters.'
"The fact Is that the govern
ment needs certain supplies, that
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"The President, who. at the there are small businessmen who
time, was holding three aces and hav he stuff for sale and that
ing people with
that extra hour
of daylight, yets
would not in
terfere with
time of network
radio programs
bus and rail
schedules, etc.
Braucht's sug
gestion is simply 0h'to ,Uw", ''
this:
Hi
dence at Salem high school Mon
day night, when the district 11
1 high school basketball tourna-
merit anrl s rnmmnnitv concert
were held simultaneously in the
same building.
The district tourney had been
scheduled months ahead of time.
When the community concert as
sociation requested use of the
SHS auditorium for the same
night as a basketball session,
school officials were careful to
warn the asociation that the
concert would have to run com-
a Joker (George Allen) Insisted
upon standing pat.
"Vaughan, according to my in
formant, tried to get the Presi
dent to accept my apology, but
the meeting broke up at mid-
the man who brings them to
gether is performing a service
to the government and to the
taxpayer.
Moral for All in Conviction of
Dr. Fuchs, Convicted Betrayer
Fn all etfti.no UnVR
etc., to ooen an hour earlier each Petltlon W1n he bal1 8ames
morning and close an hour ,thef . cncer group, was "nab,e
earlier each evening. That's ' find anothe.r suita.bIe dat.e-
all there is to it. People would the tw. events went on at the
actually be living on daylight sam tlme- . ,, . . ...
saving time, yet their clocks Those wh attendfd1 hf
would remain on standard time "vent are still complaining to
to conform to radio programs, .PKS? '""f
transportation schedules, times d "fdents livn near he
Mother towns on standard time,
' . , private driveways, etc. Several
And everyone would get that cars were double parked on 14th
extra hour of daylight after and D streets ... a definite
working hours, Braucht points fjre hazard.
I,.- Come to think of U' Concert - goers were irritated
that a the sole purpose of day- bv the congestion of young peo
light saving time, anyhow. ple moving about the halls dur-
How would the plan affect ing halftimes and between games
farmers? Well, Braucht's not of the basketball tournament,
too sure about that. Perhaps In fact, we haven't found any
some of you rural readers can one who was pleased with the
enlighten us on the subject. situation except the little black
dog that joyfully trotted from
Need for an adequate civic gym to auditorium on several
auditorium in Salem was in evi- occasions during the evening.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Women Don't Understand
A Man's Idea of a Den
By HAL BOYLE
New York Vft Animals have dens, and ever since I was a
small animal I wanted a den, too.
Let me tell you about my den.
When we finally became rich enough to afford a four-room
apartment a couple of years ago, the wife of my bosom said:
"For ten years ,
partment store and perpetrated
some draperies by the window.
The draperies had brown horses
rearing against a chartreuse
background.
"Look, Man-o-War might like
those but I don't," I com
plained. "They're real manly," said
Frances. "What did you want
on the draperies men chasing
pretty ladies across a meadow?"
Why not?
Next a beautiful white birch
By DeWITT MocKENZIE
(tJPt Foreign Affairs Analyst)
There is s traeic lesson in the case of Dr. Klaus Fuchs, natur-
niWo4 nriHch eiiVtiorr. who has been convicted in London of be-
"After all, booking agents get tr-vj.,,, Aneln-American atomic secrets and has been sentenced
10 percent for their services, to 14 vflars in miaan.
night with the general apparent- lecture agents get even more, so Tne morai js that anyone who subscribes to communism of
ly losing the decision and $42.60. wly snoum anyrjoay kick at a the Soviet brand
. reasonable figure like 5 percent pie(jges his loy-
"SECRET MEETINGS to k.eep he wfeels ol business alty to Moscow,
. ... , ., . turning, to make as many peo- irr(.!rMr't i v e of
"It can now be disclosed that , ... irrespective oi
, . . . , . , .. Ple satisiiea as numamy pus-
I have held several clandestine sibl and to lighten the crush.
meetings with General Vaughan, Jng burdens upon the president?
and that he has been largely ..He hag been unfairly ma
successful in convincing me that iigned (Vaughan, I mean) and
no personal animosity was re- as S00n as I get Truman's apology
fleeted to the President's ap- rm going to call halt to it
parent uesignauon or. me as an "Reactionaries and character was one o those
'0.'.?; . . . .... assassins like Westbrook Win- wv,n missed the
chell. Fulton Pegler, and Walter poitutil lt
, ' :.. . juewis naa Dewer wa,on ineir was too late.
th in ti! Toh n.Tiv SteZ The. Ame,fican Pe0Ple are Fuchs was a German subject that he divulge the atomic se-
: ."7 " :"T 8el8 lea P- ...u j w,i rnn n crets of America and Britain.
his nationality.
A lot of folks
seem to have
failed to grasp
that cardinal
fact, and it may
be that Fuchs
DoWltl Maokensia
1933 and was given refuge in
England. He was a brilliant
physicist and was given oppor
tunities to become one of the
world's outstanding atomic ex
perts. Finally he was loaned to
America to work on the atomic
bomb.
Dr. Fuchs had become a mem
ber of the German communist
party in 1032 and he clung to
this ideology. Naturally the
time arrived when Moscow put
the finger on him and demanded
(OopyrlaM isso)
accepted as meaning sweet old
bungler, as applied to one who,
CSSlaSS1 MERCY DEATH FOR ELEPHANT
wrong thing.
"While I am entirely willing
to accept this interpretation, I
felt that I was still justified in
demanding an apology from the
President, in view of the fact
Coco Had Friends to the End
Perhaps the doctor was shock
ed at first. Who can say? In
any event, as he himself had
said, he split his personality
into two parts, one loyal to the
West and the other paying de
votion to communism.
In this uncertain state of mind
1fflaBRaKS
r 1 1
V 3J
you have beenf
howling to have (j
a aen. now
want you to take
the small bed
room and make
yourself a den.
And from now
on please do all
your growling
in it."
Well, first
there had to be
furniture for the living room
and the bedroom, and you know desk and stiff upright chair ar
what post-war furniture costs, rived. I am afraid to use the
So for more than a year my den desk for fear of getting finger
was a storage room for old print marks on it, and I'd rather
trunks, boxes and stacks of lie on the floor than sit on the
books. chair. It's more comfortable.
One night we bunked a friend The photo montage then was
in there, and the next morning ruled out because the lease did-
at breakfast he said: n't allow it. Instead an Did pic-
"When I woke up and looked hire, ot wi,f,e' grandfather
around, my first thought was wen UP- J. ho lered at this so
that I had been put in here as a mu;h s,he finally put mirror
mmishment " ln 'ront of Grandpa. But this
But about a year ago Frances e,( a j WRnt ,0 when j hav'e
Atlanta, March S (U.B Coca was gentle to the last, because
there were children standing near.
Tho frlenfllv elenhant of Atlanta's zoo was given a mercy
that these initials are, in more death yesterday, and put out of the misery that had plagued Dr. Fuchs deliberately betrayed
enlightened sections of the coun- her 3,000-pound frame and swollen a foreleg to medicine-ball size, the land which had given him
try, associated with words , that There were a few groans, then refuge. And he divulged top
have an entirely different con- one jast vast sigh Twenty or powerful shot of poison, inject- secrets of the United States
notation, reflecting upon the more children were in the into an ear vein as Coca which is an ally of Britain,
birth or ancestry of the designee. smaii crowd attracted by news stricken on the Grant Park When the law finally caught
"Right here I want to say that that the end had to come for Co- rass- she feU yesterday, after up with him, Dr. Fuchs said
I was not in the least disturbed ca's own sake. Tears sparkled weeks of keeping erect on suf- why, yes, he had given the se-
when the President nominated on their cheeks, and their lips ferin8 les or suspended in a crets to Russia. We are not
me as an s.o.b. What did hurt and the eyes of most were swing. told whether he fully recognized
me deeply was that the senate clamped tight. "We knew we would not be the enormity of his crime at
was ready to unanimously con- Coca sometimes surly with abIe, toget her 2P agalo'- that time. Be that as may, he
firm the appointment someumes suny wn n parks Manager George Simons, finally realize what he had done,
appoimmem. her trainer and especlaUy so ln who mourned her as deeply as for Sir Hartley Shawcross, the
riinni?s .Kn rinrrirc her time of pain' lay uietly- a"y f the children who watch- prosecutor at the trial, pictured
uuiLELbS5 ANUOU1MLE4S The feared lashing of her trunk ed the death of their favorite, the prisoner as "disillusioned and
"I have never been sparing of did not come as a hypodermic Most of them had come daily ashamed."
criticism of people in public life, needle was slipped into her ear. to sympathize witn tne zz-year
but I must admit, in all honesty. The cause of death was a old pachyderm,
that I made a serious error of
judgment in my campaign
against the general, and I
vaughan to take it all back as
soon as the President removes
the stigma he has stamped upon
me.
"General Vaughan is really a
man of rare personal charm who
gives freely often too freely
of his friendship. Naturally there
are those who take advantage of
him for their own purposes.
"I have done some checking
back and, when I receive Tru
man's apology, I intend to say
that I have found the general
blameless in every charge made
affninst him thus far
"Take that matter of the med- To the Editor: We believe it would be in the public interest
al from Argentina. I accused to clarify one statement which appeared with reference to the
Vaughan of shortsightedness, Proposed insurance to be placed on the public service building
medal - mania and excessive in Salem.
vnit i , u "Strangely 100 per cent coverage . . . costs less for three
appreciates Arrfentina's enmitv years tnan does ou per
Wags Gag Reverse Marshall Plan
Berlin, March 3 (U.I!) A gag of sorts was making the
rounds today among those Berliners whose wry sense of
humor came intact through the city's heaviest snowstorm in
memory.
The Wags were passing around the suggestion that the
Marshall plan be reversed and Germany send some coal
to the United States.
Berliners doubt that anybody else in the world can ap
preciate better than they the plight of Americans caught
with their coal bins empty in the dead of winter.
OPEN FORUM
Insurance on Salem Building
cent
The presiding judge, Lord
Chief 'Justice Goddard, summed
up the case in part like this:
"You have betrayed the hos
pitality and protection given you
with the grossest treachery. . . .
You have done irreparable harm
both to this land and the United
States of America and you did it
as your statement shows
clearly for the purpose of fur
thering your political creed.
"Your statement shows the
depths of self deception to which
people like yourself can fall.
"Your crime is only thinly
differentiated from high trea
son." Did Dr. Fuchs fully realize all i
this when a Red agent first cor-y
nered him and demanded the, 1
atomic secrets? Or is Fuchs one
of those cases whose minds are
ideologically wool- gathering
most of the time?
There are a lot of folks who,
when mention is made of com
munism, think in terms of the
announced:
Last Christmas a brown couch
He Hopes to Beora 'Em
Winnsboro, Tex., March S ff The Rev. Sidney J. Spain
f Central Christian church wishes more people would
come to see his beard. If more people would come ta church,
a could shave.
Spain promised his congregation h won't shave antll at
tendance exceeds that of First Christian church at nearby
Mineola.
The whiskers are well beyond the stubble stage. They're
several shades darker than tht minister's wavy hair. The
Iftct it startling. . -
"We're solvent again, Hover r detest brown arrived. It
Boy. How would you like your was so big we had to leave it
den fixed up?" in the living room until I paid a
I told her I wanted it in red man $8 to take it apart and re
and green and blue. I said I assemble it in "my den."
wanted a beat up old pine desk Before that another fellow
to work on, and a broken down had put "Little Blowhard," an
old oak swivel chair to dream air-conditioning unit, in the
in. I said I wanted to cover the space by the window where I
walls with a montage of photos had planned to use my type
from the war days the pictures writer.
of old friends who had died The other day I saw Frances
during prohibition. measuring a space by the wall.
"Just a rough and ready den." "For television set," she ex
I cautioned. 'Nothing fancy." plained. When I objected I
Well, a carpenter came and didn't want to turn the room in
hammered out a high-priced to a theater, she asked:
built-in typewriter cabinet. The "Are you going to be stingy
door is so hard to open that I with your den?"
have never managed to get the "If this is a den," I said, "it's
typewriter out and that is why for a different kind of hyena
the great American novel has than you married."
never been written. Frances can't understand this
Then a thin-faced, ascetic- attitude at all. She feels I am
Toicad gent arrived from a de- vesy ungrateful.
' - s " -'
i
Wd th ttsa j . coverage for one year". This value of certain types of property
t,nAAn,: u jj 'I-.! i isn't pntirelv correct. Actually, it is nnssible to endorse a fire
me UCVUiauuil lie WaS nVrrm ,j . V.A 4h .....in. ... veins ui
only trying to cut down on their tne RATE would be about tne poijcy with a "coinsurance somewhat benevolent brand of
stockpile of strategic metal. same ul ,ne cm ?" nu"?s ""u clause" which is, in effect, a the lsm which existed long ago.
"His activities in the Tanforan cents would be just twice as contract between the insured and That was a Utopian ideal in
racetrack and the molasses deals much because twice as much in- insurance company and like whieh the members of the corn
were solely to stimulate business fura?ce wouId bc "j a11 contracts, imparts an oblige- munity "ved in brotherly love
that was being stifled by bu- thV0,ieArJ2 f ,PJ1-... tion on both parties. The insur- and shared equally one for aU
reaucratic red tape. His friend- at e SAME rate for 0 y ance company, for its part, will and ,al1 for one'
ship for John Maragon was noble ' allow a percentage reduction "'s a far cry from that com
and inspiring, and we all ought Fire Insurance rates, general- from the "flat" rate if the m"nism to the creed of the
to bear in mind that Maragon ly on a national scale are based insured, for his part of the obli- PresRnt day Bolshevism. The cur
has never been pointed out as a on the fact that those who gation will agree to carry an rcnt brand calls for one world,
pro-communist. insure property will insure it amount of insurance equal to a and the capital would be Mos-
. to at least one-half of its actual percentage of the insurable value ow, with the sovereignty of all
"GRAFT OR GRATITUDE insurable value. This should, of the property which might be notions resting in the Kremlin.
under normal conditions, provide anywhere between 60 per cent 'n sbort, every citizen of that
"There's been a lot of loose sufficient premiums in order to t inn per cent at the option of world would be answerable to
talk about deep freeze units, per- pay the fire losses arid the oper- the insured; the higher the per- Moscow. That's what Dr. Fuchs
fumes, and such. ating costs of the insurance com- centage of insurance, the less the finally came up against, and
"Before you become prey to panies. For those who wish to proportionate rate. ' Thus, the wnat every dyed-in-the-wool
whispered innuendoes I ask you insure for an amount greater rate may be reduced as much as communist must face,
to examine yourself in the light then 50 percent of the insurable 65 per cent for an "A" class There is growing recognition
building if it is insured to 100
Wife on the Hot Seat
per cent of its insurable value.
of this truth. We see evidence
of that in the Fuchs trial, and I
In addition, the insurance e"fv? e Fuch CaSe W.aS fvfl
Rome, March 3 iPi An angry husband in Parma took
Tengeance on his unfaithful wife by seating her naked on a
red hot stove, Rome newspapers reported today.
The husband, 25 years older than his bride, found her
with a youthful lover when he returned nnexpectedly from
a trip, the dispatches said. The woman was reported seriously
burned. ..... s . .
laws of our State permit insur-
flected in some degree in the
. u. It?. recent British general election.
ouit iu uc wi i u mr mice , , ... ,
years for just twice the one year FnmUniS,n g0t a ternlic kn0Ck
rate a money-saving device for ,,
the insured which is not allowed
in all states. . . .
S. A. BOISE
Huggins Insurance
There were 100 communist
candidates for parliament, in-,
eluding two members of the pre4
vious commons, and every moth
er's son of them waa defeated.
V