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I Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, March 8, 1950
Our Crazy Farm Policies
To get rid of some of its immense food supplies acquired
In support prices, the government's expanding food give
away program has become a multi-million dollar operation.
The agricultural department has arranged to give away
for distribution to needy Americans in 47 states, foods that
cost it more than ?3 million, listed as follows:
Dried Eggs 1,173,200 pounds (equivalent of 43,000,000 shell
eggs) which cost the government about $1,600000.
Dried Milk 2747,960 pounds, equivalent of 11,000,000 quarts
of skim milk, when reconstituted with water, this cost the gov
ernment about $340,000.
Potatoes 34,894,650 pounds, which cost about $1,300,000 in
addition to spuds dumped.
This stockpile represents only a small fraction of the
stocks the government is holding. The food is free at stor
age points to public and private welfare agencies, including
the Indian bureau and free school lunch program. The
agencies must pay transportation charges. Arizona is the
only state in which welfare agencies have not sent in
orders.
Some 13 states are handling distribution for needy fam
ilies for local areas in distress. In many other states the
foods are being taken by county welfare agencies and in
stitutions, but not being distributed directly to families
on relief for home use. Oregon has been shipped only 93,
800 pounds of potatoes, one of the smallest recipients.
The administration's farm program matches its other
financial actions and helps explain why with a staggering
indebtedness we have a yearly peace time deficit of over
$5 billion. Congress is as much to blame as the adminis
tration. Only a week ago the senate voted on a wide
variety of farm amendments and its votes in all cases
either worsened the situation or prevented improvement,
and declined to halt the policy of strong price supports
and weak production controls by defeating the Williams'
amendment by a vote of 60 to 17.
At the same time the senate voted to increase the plant
ings of cotton, wheat and peanuts, which means more sur
plus to tie up. The government owns more wheat now
bought than the nation can consume in a year and it has
two thirds of a billion dollars tied-up in cotton alone. Pres
sure politics for votes by doles added to the "welfare" slate
ism is bankrupting the nation. But today the house com
mittee voted ?2 billion increase in the CCC price support
program which may rise from $3.6 billion last year to
1 6.3 billion by June 30, 1951.
The Cost of a Modern, Efficient City
The main reason Salem voted for the city manager form
of government in 1947 was to get efficient city manage
ment. City Manager Franzen gave that to Salem. The
voters thought so in 1948, too. They gave him a vote of
confidence when they killed a move to abandon the manag
er type of administration.
His three years in office led to project planning. The
more he considered projects for the city's betterment the
more he found the need for long-range planning of those
projects. So it was not surprising when he packaged those
projects into his 10-year-development plan for Salem. That
was the basis for the outline of projects he revealed Mon
day night. He had figured the costs on a pay-as-you-go
plan.
If Salem expects to meet the needs of the people of the
community for the next 10 years, better than $8 millions
in projects can be expected. That was what Franzen fig
ured. When asked by Alderman Gille and O'Hara if the
10-year-program had been pared of all frills, Franzen gave
a definite "yes" in reply. He was looking at the needs of
the city as an engineer, manager and planner. He gave his
assurance that nothing but essentials was in the long
range program: Sewers, drainage, bridges, water, fire pro
tection, street widening, airport development, and park
development.
Furthermore, Franzen had come up with a program for
all parts of the city.
Anything as comprehensive, as this 10-year-program
calls for a videspread education program to all groups.
This is especially so since the program belongs to the peo
ple of the city. It should bo translated into projects bene
fitting the city. And the logical man to do the translating
before clubs and organizations would be the man respons
ible for the program, City Manager Franzen.
This 10-year program has been in the making for the
past year. So that it may be properly evaluated by the vot
ers who will be called on to approve phases of the financial
basis for it at the May primary, the program should have
wide presentation in the coming months.
Franzen has listed the projects as the cost of building a
modern, efficient city.
Unreasonable Search Defined
A recent 5 to 3 decision by the federal supreme court
written by the recently appointed Justice Minton, in the
case of U.S. vs. Albert J. Rabinowitz, holding that the police
search of his premises without a search warrant was legal,
and not a violation of the Fourth Amendment of the Bill
of Rights which outlaws unreasonable search and seizure.
The Fourth Amendment reads :
"Unreasonable Search Forbidden. The right of the people
to be secure in their persons houses, papers, and effects, against
unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated; and
no warrant shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by
oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to
' be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
(Proposed bv congress September 25, 1789; ratified December
' 15, 1791.)
The majority court opinion held that when police, armed
with an arrest warrant, but no search warrant, for a dealer
charged with eelling altered postage stamps, searched his
one-room place of business and found more altered stamps,
"the relevant test is not whether it is reasonable to procure
a search warrant, but whether the search was reasonable."
Those who signed the decision besides Minton, were
Chief Justice Vinson, Justices Barton, Clark and Reed.
Those who dissented were Justices Frankfurter, Jackson
and Black. (Douglas taking no part).
The Frankfurter-Jackson dissent, Black filed a separate
one, said:
"It (the decision) makes a mockery of the Fourth Amend
ment to sanction search without a search warrant merely be
cause of the legality of an arrest. . . . The right to search the
place of arrest is an innovation based on confusion without his
torla foundation and made in the teeth of an historic protection
against it. . . . The progress is too easy from police action un
tcrutinized by judicial authorization to the police state,"
It would appear to the layman that the dissenters have
the best of the argument and that the decision is another
one undermining liberties written in the Bill of Rights.
BV BECK
A Dog's Life
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Tax Chief, Four Aides Indicted
After Merry-Go-Round Expose
By DREW PEARSON
Washington It looks as if the U. S. attorneys, some of them
hitherto phlegmatic about prosecuting income-tax frauds, were
now getting to work.
On January 20 this column published the sordid details of a
hold-up scheme by which five internal revenue agents in New
York City shook
BY CARL ANDERSON
Henry
KRISS-KROSS
Here We Go Again . . .
From Saucers to Monsters
By CHRIS KOWITZ, Jr.
Here we go again . . . now everybody has forgotten those flying
saucers and are seeing sea monsters instead.
Since that odiferous gob of sea life washed up on the beach at
Delake last week-end, sea monsters have been bobbing up all over.
Most spectacular one to make an alleged appearance is a 50-
off the
down federal
taxpayers who
either had vio
la t e d the tax
laws, or else
wanted to avoid
tax argument.
The column
cited dates,
names and pla
ces regarding
these shake
downs, and rais
ed the question as to why this
type of fraud had not been pro
secuted. One of those named, in
cidentally, was William A. Gan
ney, chief of the fraud squad of
New York's third internal reve
nue collection district, and a
friend of certain high-up demo
cratic politicians.
Drew Pearson
trying to draw the witness out.
The roomful was waiting for him
to say those two words, "Alger
Hiss." But the senator was not
ready yet. There followed more
smoothly probing questions and
cautious replies.
Then Bridges said, smiling
pleasantly, "would you say a
person who is known, for in
stance, to have given material
from the state department classi
fied files in defense of Alger
Hiss would be a security risk?"
A ripple of ohs and ahs passed
across the tiny chamber. The
words were out.
"Anyone who dealt with
classified material in an unau
thorized way is a security risk,"
Acheson said firmly
A few minutes later, he was
ITinallir rrt ATo tVi 9 civ iiriaalrc?
after the column expose, the five I?"""6 statement on Hiss,
men were indicted. h'S voice lonSer h?d
, . . stiff, edgy quality, and when he
Acheson Passes Deadly Test finished, there was a hush in the
A tall man with an eleeant room, as Acheson waited for the
mustache and a soft, cultured
footer
coast of Ucuelet.l
Vancouver Is
land, British Co
lumbia. That
one reportedly
sticks four feetr
out of water,
has a long stove
pipe neck and a
tiny head.
What's more, it's
two-tone in col
or .. . light buff
below and dark on back.
What next?
This may be a bit out of sea-
voice went through a special va
riety of hell in a tiny, smoke
filled senate room the other day.
His agony was there for the
world to watch. Glaring came-
verdict. It came from Chairman
Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee:
"Well, gentlemen," he croaked,
"we'll let the secretary go. He's
a busy man."
Not a voice was raised in pro-
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A- L i PREHISTORIC
1 - i.feiA.Y BONES
J ijyjjL VjLL IMVITEP
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Chrle Kowitt, Jr.
Herb Carter, the Salem at-
torney, is still hitting the mag
azines regularly with his fic
tion stories . . . Jim Lugenbeel,
assistant brewmaster for Salem
Sicks' brewery, is an accom
plished bow and arrow hunter.
He's bagged many deer that
way . . . Suggestion for modern
girls' use of grandma's old hat
pins: Try cleaning your cig
arette holders with them. We
hear it works beautifully.
About 400 Willamette students
were among the crowd witness
es Stared at him. Reporters oecreiary Ai-iiesun jiau
scribbled notes. Hostile words passed his trial.
picked at him savagely. No tem
pejs flared or voices raised. It
was very polite and very, very
deadly.
Dean Acheson, the secretary
of state, sat before the mighty
senate appropriations commit
tee and an intent audience.
The test began when urbane
Sen. Styles Bridges of New
Hampshire casually asked: "Mr.
Secretary, what do you consid-
Capital News Capsules
Truman slams door It hap
pened some time ago, but it's
still significant that the presi
dent had a meeting with Geor
gia's Sen, Dick Bussell, the
shrewd southern leader, about
compromising on the civil-rights
fight. Bussell figured southern
senators would yield on some
things if the administration
would sidetrack a vote on the
er a security risk?" Everyone in dynamite.laden fair employment
Portland U. in the finals of the
Northwest NAIB tournament at
Portland Tuesday night.
u i.,t o innoi n( were among xne crowa witness
son, but at least one local gem . ,. , n on , ,
w hnih, nvor '"8 Willamette's 79-60 loss to
the thought that the Salem Cher
rians have termed the tree on
me couruuiuK Cne of the Portiand U. song
gerous to be decorated at Christ- O'Connor, Stayton
mas time . . it seems the tree whQ wag n o'the lg49
has grown so tall that to string Salem ch festival. ... In
lights on it would be hazardous the crowd wag Mrs w c Dyer
for the persons doing the job. wnlamette Phi DeIta Theta fra.
Our complainant would like to termt house mother, she never
point out to the Chemans that misses a game-despite the fact
other cities in Oregon have or- that there,s not a single phi
ganizations where men are men. Delt on the Bearcat team.
. . . Albany Loggers, Coos Bay Fred (Happy) Lee, whose 27
Pirates, Grants Pass Cavemen, points proved djsastrous to Wil-
etc. Their very names suggest lamette, was a former Astoria
ruggedness. And the Chcrrians high schooi teammate of Pete
are balking at a little thing like Bryant, a senior playing his
climbing a tree. iast game for Willamette Tues-
Come to think of it, the Log- day. . . . Lee and Bryant were
gers belong in the woods, the members of the Astoria team
Pirates on the seas, and the which starred Cliff Crandall,
Cavemen in caves . . . but who later an OSC star and now with
should feel more at home in a the powerful Stewart Chevrolet
tree than a Cherrian? AAU club. (
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
Pomp, Splendor and Socialism
Mix in English Parliament
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
t ((At Foreun Allaire Analyst)
Those who hold that this funny old world of ours is doomed
because of "class warfare" and the clash of ideologies, might
get comfort from the drama of the British parliament opening
Monday in London.
Thousands of Britons rich and poor, aristocrat and little man .
lined the route ti
to cheer the roy
al pro cession
from Bucking
ham Palace to
West minister.
Just as in days
long gone the
king and queen
rode in their
wondrous horse
drawn golden
coach escorted
tne room Knew Bridges "secur
ity risk" was Alger Hiss. An as
sistant secretary of state looked
anxiously at his .boss. Acheson's
expression was a be-nice-to-senators
look, but his voice was
cold as he answered: "We have
regulations on this matter."
practices act. Truman was cor
dial but tenacious. "I won't even
talk to you about civil rights,
Dick," he said. "I've got a pro
gram and I'm not going to back
down an inch."
Jailed Missionaries It didn't
attract the publicity of the Vo-
0alai pau in Wuntrarv hut Am-
Minutes later, Bridges was bassador Ellis Briggs finally got
back again with a smooth two Mormon missionaries out of
would you say that a friend of jail in Czechoslovakia, where
a known communist would be a they were being he,d for aueged
Se1!J? ris7.' spying. The ambassador had to
XfS' secretary said, threaten economic retaliation
quietly, "I think probably so." unless the tw0 men Stanley
He parried the thrust and was Abbott 0f Lehi, Utah and Aldon
on guard again for the next one. johnson of Idaho Falls, Idaho,
Would you say a friend of were released. Reprisals are now
a persons who is a member of feared against 300 Mormon con
a communist front organization verts left behind in Czechoslo
would be a security risk?" vakia
The audience was watching ' 0ut in Oregon, GOP Chairman
with awed fascination Would Guy Gabrielson asked old guard
the secretary of state fall into republicans not to create a
the trap? This was a game for tough fight against liberal Re.
keeps. Acheson, still in the low, puDiican Sen. Wayne Morse,
cool voice, said, 'it all depends Morse has been wooed by the
on whether the person would democrats and Gabrielson does-
jihuw wiiai nis menu was up nl t in nim ttj,.,.
Foster Mother Leads Drive to
Give Girl, 7, Chance to See
Belding, Mich., March 8 (ff) Flora jean Street's gallant foster
mother is leading a whole community's effort to give the win
some little girl her second chance to see.
Blonde Flora Jean's world has been a dark one during a
good share of her seven years.
One major operation restored
part of her vision. But she needs cut away scar tissue that cov
another one. ered Flora Jean's eyes and graft-
Mrs. Louise McCormick, her ed Jn the corneas from the eyes
63-year-old foster mother, and Qf a stillborn child.
the town of Belding are raising
funds for the surgery. Flora Jean could see- But her
. . , vision was far from perfect. Now
Flora Jean was a lonely, she needs the corneas from the
blind, unwanted youngster eyes of an older person,
four years ago when a court
publicized her plight and Again Belding is helping Mrs.
asked if anyone wanted to McCormick
adopt her. Mrs. McCormick There are donations from clv.
. . . ic groups, residents and doctors
"It never has been a burden Pa ' businessman has of--she
is my greatest joy," the
foster mother says now. " " ' r T ,-,,
Soon after taking the pretty Z ZJ
little toddler into her home, Mrs. eral months h?nce' t
McCormick found out Flora Jean Flora Jean is confident,
might be able to see if she had "I'm going to read and write
the proper operation. and ride a bike with yellow
She turned her home into a wheels and blue fenders," she
restaurant to raise funds. Bel- said. "And I may even open a
ding joined in and raised $3,200. beauty parlor and buy mama lit
In September, 1947, a surgeon tie knick-knack things."
Time to Fix the Locks
Fort Lauderdale, Fla., March 8 VP) Broward county com
missioners have decided it's about time to fix the locks on the
jailhouse door.
Jailer C. B. Lewis said the locks had not been overhauled
since the courthouse was built in 1928. The jail is on the
fourth and fifth floors.
He said sometimes it takes a full half hour to open a cell door.
to."
secretary of the Navy Dan Kim-
f yiiun baU wiu soon resign,
the role of the charming lawyer (ownitin iso
No Small Theft Job
inaugurated the so-called "wel
fare state."
Incongruous? Well, odd to
say the least. However, that's
hot the whole story. Sitting in
the gallery with the laborites
(socialists), in almost equal num
bers, were the members of the
conservative party.
In theory these conservatives
are representatives of the "upper
by -scarlet uni- check we find that it was the
formed household cavalry. State self -same conservatives who,
landaus followed with dignitar- wnen in power, laid the founda
ies. Guns roared a royal salute tions for the "welfare state."
from St. James park. They are the ones who imposed
Lords in scarlet and crimson such taxation that they virtually
robes and richly appareled peer- wiped out the landed aristocracy
esses filled the august house of and more than a few members
lords' chamber awaiting their ot parliament belonged to that
majesties. The members of the ciass. Already the conserva
house of commons were in their tives were operating "left of
gallery, and the envoys of many center."
nations filled the diplomatic Then as the war was drawing
boxes. to a close the country in a gen-
eral election decided to try the
Enter the king-emperor and paces of lhe labol. (or socialist)
his queen. King George, in robes party So the soclalists came
of crimson and gold, topped by to power and immediately start
an ermine cape, led his regally cd in on a program of national
gowned queen up to the golden ization of industry. They swung
thrones. There, wearing his much fllrther to the left politi
crown of state, he faced the cialIy than the conservatives had
assembly and delivered the bcen-
"speech from the throne" in In'the recent general election
which he stated the policies of lhe people rebuked the socialists
his government an outline for going too far left. Prime
which had been prepared by the Minister Attlee's party just man
cabinet, aged to squeeze out a victory.
And now we come to the but one wnich has lcft u im.
strange part of this picture of potent to enact any radical leg
pomp and splendor. The gov- isiati0n.
ernmcnt facing his imperial ma-
jesty was socialist, all members And what is the significance
of the labor party. of all this medley of pomp,
It was, by and large, the same splendor and socialism? To me
government which had ruled the It means that, with reasonable
country for the last five years, give and take, the so-called
although now reduced to a bare "class" differences can be work
majority by the recent election, ed out reasonably and amicably
It was the same government if the goodwill is present,
which carried out a considerable The alternative to that is regi
degree of nationalization, and mentation of humanity.
New York, March 8 OJ.R) The New York Philharmonic
Symphony reported today that a thief had entered its instru
ment room and marched off with the biggest thing he could
find the bass drum.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Middle-Agers Bewildered by
Machines Surrounding Them
By HAL BOYLE
New York (P) Are you confused? Don't you know which way
to turn? Does life have you puzzled, uncertain and doubtful?
Well, cheer up. It isn't your fault. You are just an unfortunate
victim of history, a member of what will be known as "the in-
between generation.'
This is the
generation
which, when
young, was
taught that it
had to do things
for itself. But
this same gener
ation, now - at
maturity, finds
that machines i
have been de
veloped to do
most of these
things for it. So,
mm
naturally, it
coin vending machine and the
electronic brain.
It will occupy three-fourths
of the living room of the house
of the future, and a new type of
modern people will emerge to
use it.
There will no longer be any
need to leave the home. In the
mornihg just tune in the boss on
"little do-it-alls' " television at
tachment, and he tells you
what he wants done. So you
mark up a card, put the card
doesn't know what to do with and a quarter in the machine, a
itself. few gears grind and out comes
It is the real lost generation. your days work, neatly filed
, i i I tl
It no longer trusts itself, and it
is too old and wary to put its
faith blindly in machines..
I think the generation coming
up or the one after it, per
haps will be the lucky genera
tion. It will be geared from
birth to adjust itself to the machine.
You throw your dirty dishes
in one end of "little do-it-all,"
and they come out clean and
dry from the other end. But
there won't be many dirty dishes,
as the machine will serve you
food in paper containers. It will
also play you a chess game for
a dime, give you Bing Crosby or
Right now the trouble is there sew button on your pajamas,
are too many machines. Mid- What will people of the future
die-aged people just can't un- be like? Well, they'll have no
derstand all the machines that need to walk, so they'll just sit
surround them typewriters, in wheelchairs all day in front
motor cars, electric razors, vac- of "little do-it-all." The only
uum cleaners and dishwashers, muscles they'll require are a
radios, three-speed phonographs, strong right arm to pull nickels,
television sets. And there is also dimes and quarters out of a huge
a spreading wilderness of coin- pocket full of coins to keep the
vending machines that will do machine operating,
everything from telling their
fortunes to shining their shoes. The danger I see in "little
All this turmoil will dissolve, know-it-all" is that some wag
however, when science perfects may build a sense of humor into
a single, all-purpose machine him. Any machine that acts as
that will do anything and every- a psychiatrist for people might
thing you ask it. This magic take to playing pranks to show
machine "little do-it-all" his steely contempt for soft hu
will be a wedding of the present man beings.
for everyone!
are fun
says JOE E. BROWN V
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