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A Salem, Oregon, Thursday, March 9, 1950
Repeal of Federal Oleo Taxes
Both houses of congress have passed the controversial
bill repealing federal taxes on oleomargarine and sent
it to the White House. President Truman is expected to
sign it as the democratic party platform pledged it. It
.will go into effect July 1. The house vote was 262 to
106 and the senate 59 to 20.
.r The measure was bitterly fought by dairy farmers and
vigorously supported by farmers growing cotton seed,
oy beans and other vegetable oils. The final bill was a
compromise worked out by a senate-house conference com
mittee which eliminated a provision that oleomargarine
be sold at retail in triangular forms. Its final form satis
fied some congressmen from butter producing states on
labeling requirements.
. Senator Wiley (R., Wis.) voiced, the sentiment of oppo
nents when he declared the law would penalize the milch
cow areas and that grass would grow in the streets of
some, industrial regions too and that the "farmers have
been sold down the river." On the other hand Senator
Aiken (R., Vt.) says the measure gives butter men pro
tection against fraud that the taxes do and that the better
Interest of the dairy farmer has been safeguarded as much
as possible by law.
, The taxes to be repealed are :
Ten cents a pound on colored margarine at retail; Vt cent a
pound on uncolored; $600 a year on oleomargarine manufac
turers; $480 a year on wholesalers of the colored product; $200
a year on wholesalers of uncolored oleomargarine; $48 a year
on retailers of the colored product; $5 a year on retailers of
uncolored margarine.
' Many states have discriminatory taxes on oleomar
garine, including Oregon, which are not affected by the
federal bill, but efforts will probably be made to repeal
these at coming sessions of the legislature.
Oleomargarine is a healthful food and is almost uni
versally used in cooking because it is cheaper than butter,'
as well as a spread substitute when colored. Repeal of
federal taxes should lower its cost and so benefit the city
dweller in slashing the cost of living.
' Enforcement of the penalty provisions as to labeling
Is left to the federal trade commission. Violators of the
labeling regulations could be fined up to $5,000 a day.
The food and drug administration will have the job of
seeing to it that the product is what it is represented to
be, and not adulterated.
The 'Parrisans of Peace'
J In as much as President Truman and Secretary of State
Acheson refuse to make any effort to renew official ef
forts to end the "cold war" instigated by Russia and
reach a (settlement on the atomic bomb issue, a fifteen
man volunteer American delegation is trying its hand as
"Partisans of Peace" to effect a reconciliation.
Three of the delegates appeared Wednesday speaking
5n the Kremlin before a representative group of the Soviet
parliament, urging creation of a United Nations atomic
control group with the right of unlimited inspection
throughout the world, apparently omitting control here
tofore demanded.
'" The Americans were former Assistant U. S. Attorney
General O. John Rogge, illustrator Rockwell Kent, and
radio commentator Johannes Steel. Rogge acted as spokes
man, urged that the U. N. body be given unlimited power
not only to inspect atomic installations but also armaments
and military bases throughout the world. All the group's
findings should be published, he said.
,'. "Once we have removed the mountains of fear, denun
ciations, counter-denunciations and name-calling will sub
side," he said. He expressed the opinion that capitalism
and communism can exist peacefully side by side and
quoted Premier Josef Stnlin to that effect. He continued:
"I look forward to the time when Russians and Americans
will be partners in work) peace within the framework of a
strong United Nations, which will free all peoples and all
human beings from all forms of oppression. If there must be
competition between those countries, let it be for determining
who is the champion of all oppressed people."
- Of course Premier Stalin has the say as to whether
he wants peace or war, and what the deputies of the
supreme Soviet and other leaders want doesn't count, and
the peace efforts may be doomed in advance to failure,
or utilized as a sign of weakness lo promote aggression,
but it certainly does no harm for it expresses the peace
desires not only of the American people but peoples of
all the world, including the Russians. But the fact that
Rogge is a policy maker for Wallace's progressive party
raises a suspicion of politics.
Up in (Whose) Arms?
."' Louis Johnson, the defense secretary, has another scalp
to hang on his office wall.
The "victim" was Rear Admiral Boone, who had served
as White House physician to Presidents Harding, Coo
lidge and Hoover. Boone was fired from his high medical
post in the defense set-up because he was "uncooperative."
This latest victim of the Johnson purge had described
Johnson's economy cutbacks in military hospitals as
"shortsighted." And, as the American public is learning,
no one can question the word and wisdom of Louis Johnson
and stay in the defense organization. Admiral Denfeld,
the top naval officer in the service, found that out last
fall and was fired.
- Reports from Washington, D. C, say the house armed
nervices committee is up in arms over the removal of
Admiral Boone. But the only arms the armed services
committee is in are those of the boss-man, Louis Johnson.
. When will the congressional committee stop being the
pet of Johnson and become, instead, the watchdog of the
defense department, as it is supposed to he according to
th system of government in the United States?
Siamese's Open-Door Policy
Portland, March 9 (IP) The Or. Richard M. Stelner family
may have to keep the front door locked Sunil Su Is too smart.
After worrying for three months about finding the door
tanding open at many odd hours, they disrovered the culprit
is Suml Su, a female Siamese cat.
Suml Sb learned to Jump at the door, eurl a paw in the
curved handle and press the latch with the other paw.
The door swing open and in goes Suml Su and her malo
litUr-mata.
flV BECK
Popular People
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
BY CARL ANDERSON
h '"A THB GUY WHO iSMOAtO
I a -A' W r TOWN ALL AFTERNOON, AND
' ' r7lfa THEN OASrIES INTO THE SHOP
- tr JUST BEFORE CLOSINS TIME,
U.S. Has Two Alternatives in Henry
Battle for Peace; Which One?
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Some people around Washington think I've been
nagging government officials by last week's letters on winning
the peace. Maybe so. However, peace is something which about
15,000,000 American men thought they were fighting for, and
which an entire nation still devoutly hopes for, so I'm going
to keep on nag
ging. However,
since it's not
quite fair to put
others on the
spot without
giving your own
views, here are
my own grop
ings toward that
most precious
and elusive of
all goals per-
Drew Pemrsoa
Russian soil, that area would
have to be policed afterwards. It
could not be left a stark and
naked wilderness. Furthermore,
the American people have a hab
it of going into areas we have
defeated and spending billions
in reconstruction. And we would
probably do this also after war
in Russia,
More important, however, the
bitterness of the Russian people
would be such that another war
KRISS-KROSS
Hey, Buddy, Here's a Deal
That'll Make You a Million
By CHRIS KOWITZ, Jr.
"Hey, buddy, want in on a sure thing?"
A couple of gents around town are attempting lo drum up
interest in a "cat and rat" farm. They haven't actually asked
anyone to invest capital yet ... in fact, we doubt if they're very
serious about the idea. Nevertheless, their plan sounds convincing.
The proposed
"cat and rat"
farm would op
erate like this:
Product, cat
skins, would bck
sold to glovef
factories. Sales!,
would be almost
clear profit, lor
ove r h e a d ex
pense would be
nearly nil. The
cats would
manem pedue. would be inevitable. They would
. f- ,, there can begin counting the day, one hour
fi ae" a firstga,omic explosion,
Moreover, the ideas which follow
bear no copyright nor claim to
originality. In brief, I believe
the United States has two gen
eral alternatives:
when they could build up their
strength to strike back.
If our goal is a warless world,
this is not the way to win it.
Nor would the bitterness of
i n i tv,o or;nmo altpr- the rest of the world be much
Hrnnnino thp hnmh less. The United States has en-
now, when we are way ahead joyed great moral leadership be-
in A-bomb production.
2. The other is the difficult,
be better than ever this year,
with lovely Gloria Ellexson, na
tional champion baton-twirler,
due to perform in an exhibition.
. . . Louie du Buy, operator of
North High photo and radio
shop, had a gross of those popu
lar false noses with glasses
frames flown in from Los An
geles. Sold the whole gross in
a day.
cause of the fact that not since
the Mexican War of 1848 have
back-breakmg Job of WQrkmg at Sometimes our failure to take
peace for a period of 25 to 50 initiative has bee costl as
years, with ""J1 at Pearl Harbor; but from the
those which we have ever con- point Qf view o world leader
templated before. ship i(. has been tn(J wjsest
To some people, me iirsi ai- poijCy we ever f0uowed.
MacKENZIE'S COLUMN
ternative, horrible as it is, might
Finally, and aside from the
CSi!ri ti" i3f; Zlr. opinion of the rest of the world,
frequently seems the most con
venient way out of an interna
tional impasse, which is one rea
son dictators declare war. Fur
thermore, the United States, de-
we have to live with ourselves.
We cannot lose our own self
respect. Therefore, despite the great
Generalissimo Chiang Makes
Fresh Bid to Reclaim China
By DeWITT MacKENZIE
(UP) PorelKD Affairs Analyst)
As the signs read, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's dramatic
resumption of the Chinese nationalist presidency marks the real
beginnng of his fresh bid to reclaim his country from the com-
Cbrls Kowltl. Jr.
Quoting from National Asso
ciation of Intercollegiate Basket-
eat the rats and after the cats ball interpretation of "two-min-were
killed and their skins re- ute" rule:
moved, the cat carcasses would
be fed to the rats. No feed bills on the ,ast o tw0 attempts the
that way, the two would-be ,: ,, ,
.4- J.- -
spite the 'leak of atomic secrets military advantages to be gain- munists.
to Russia, is far ahead in the d, the vast majority of the The recent successes of the nationalist air raids against Chinese
production of atomic bombs, and . , 0Uie, communist ter
in a speecn at nis neaaquar
ters in Taipei, Formosa, the gen
eralissimo declared that the es
sentials for triumph and survival
are unity, teamwork and the
complete sacrifice of personal
interests. And he added:
"If this is achieved I am con
fident of eventual defeat of the
communists."
will continue that lead for at " . " vu.'c J"B'"U.H ! ritory, coupled
least a year, probably longer. ',u"?"ve inuroppirig me atomic wjth the ap.
But if we wait much beyond Bom at tms tlme' proach of spring
that, the military odds against There may come a time when and better
us increase. Not only could Rus- dropping the bomb will become weather, seem
sia catch up to our atomic stock- necessary, as will be set forth to make this the
pile, not only can she get away in a later column. But not now. appointed hour
After a missed free throw to an even start with us in mak- "al ,nen aret(.1 weapons V for Chiang to
ing hydrogen bombs, but her " J "" intensify his at-
"After a missed free throw on
the last of two attempts, the
ball will be thrown up between
"farmers" point out.
As we have said, the gents who
are circulating the idea prob-
their efforts to start up a "cat tne two opposing centers at the
and rat" farm. nearest free-throw i,ne."
Perhans they're iust trvinff to We've seen some mighty corn-
prove that there's more than one plicated sports rules in the last
-rSt- 1
rnrf trnnn arp now far su- cherished goal of permanent taci. Moreover.
perior. her air force is now about Peace? t;me js 0f (he
equal, her tanks are better, and (Ed. Note Drew Pearson's essence. He oewm Mckeni.
her submarine fleet is growing, program for peace will be con- must strike be-
. tinued tomorrow.) fore the Reds have consolidated
(Copyrlsht 1950) eir positions.
way to skin a cat.
Leonore Boyson, Bcaverton
entry in tonight's drum major-
few years, but that beats them
all.
...
Everett Dean, faculty member
ette contest at Salem high school, at Stanford university, is being
is twin sister of girl who won considered for job of dean of
the contest three years ago
students at University of Indi-
The majorette contest is always ana, his alma mater ... If he
one of the more colorful events gets the job, he'll be the only
of the year in Salem, and should Dean Dean in captivity.
Short Skirts Get 'Ugly' Rating
Los Angeles, March 9 Wt Short skirts and all they reveal
were the "ugliest period" in feminine fashion history, says
a top fashion expert.
So there's little likelihood that women's hemlines will creep
much higher, believes H. Stanley Marcus, vice president of
Neiman-Marcus in Dallas, Tex.
Marcus, here for a fashion show, said "It's always danger
ous to review styles that still live in the memories of most
persons. They always remember the bad points."
auch as knobby knees?
TIME IS RUNNING OUT
With the Russian population
increasing much faster than ours,
and with a greater proportion of
her budget spent on armament,
time is running rapidly against
us.
As of today, however, the
atomic warfare odds are so pre
ponderantly in our favor that
we could take the initiative in
war with every expectation of
winning.
Those are the cold, calculated
facts on the side of alternative
No. 1.
Alternative No. 2 is a 25-10-50-year
war of nerves, of sacri
fice and of diplomatic jujitsu.
This is a much tougher battle
than appears on the surface. For
one thing, the faoviet govern-
Not Lettuce For a Salad
Austin, Texas, March 9 (ff) That lettuce Mrs. Marvin Thorp
brought home from the grocery wasn't just salad.
The green stuff in one sack, she found, was the long, folding
kind $50 worth. Mrs. Thorp hustled it back to the grocery.
Store owner H. S. Gullett said the money had been bagged
for a trip to the bank and mis-routed to Mrs. Thorp's grocery
sack.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Sin Has Beginning and a Middle
But Doesn't Seem to Have End
By HAL BOYLE
New York () Some time ago, having attacked poison snakes.
, ,,'i,ui ni.jj i I promised to go on and deal with the problem of sin.
sabotaging the free world, and But after exporing the subject a bit further, I found myself
any conferences which we or ln Sr.eat difficulty.
Winston Churchill may have Poison snakes and sin are quite different. Poison snakes have
,ith .Top Stalin aren't eoine to a beginning,
Well, that's strong language.
What makes Chiang believe that
he can evict the communists who
control virtually the entire Chi
nese mainland? Has he really
a whisper of hope?
Fred Hampson, AP chief of bu
reau in Hong Kong, cables that
the Chinese communists, whose
armies overran China in a year,
are now sitting bucks for the
Nationalist air force.
"Military experts," says
Hampson, "are becoming puz
zled at the Reds' continued help
lessness against a relatively
small power. Indeed, they have
come to believe that the Reds'
position in power may actually
be threatened unless they can
whip together some air defenses
pretty soon.
"Whatever the explanation,
the situation daily grows more
intolerable for the communists
and, what counts heavily in Chi
na, the Reds are losing face at
a terrific rate."
OPEN FORUM
Likeness of Crows to People
To the Editor: A brief item in the Capital Journal or February
25 decribed some of the characteristics of the common crow,
particularly as to their remarkable intelligence and cooperation
against enemies, although they are notorious thieves among
themselves.
It is a startling coincidence
that the characteristics of the during wars: however, as soon
crow are so nearly the same as as it ends, they start right in
that of man, we may wonder quarreling, slandering, lieing
if it were possible we descended and filching each other,
from the crow, rather than Personally I am inclined to
monkeys. have a little higher regard for
The ethics and social conduct crows. They are intelligent
of the crow family is nearly a enough to settle their disputes
perfect counterpart of Republic- without resorting to mass mur
ans and Democrats. (Crows dcr. That is more than we can
should make good obstructionist say for mankind,
senators), Republicans and R. A. MOHNEY
Democrats cooperate splendidly 1515 Bellevue, Salem
Suggests Moving Courthouse
To the Editor: I have been reading about the new county court
house that is being built here in Salem, and I think that they
all have missed the point when they intend to build a new
courthouse on one of the most Important blocks in the city of
Salem.
The stale capital Is taking buildings in a group, and I be
enouRh of the city without leav- lieve that the profit from the
ing the courthouse in the mid- sale of the block where the
die of our fair city, courthouse is now would more
So here is my suggestion: than offset the cost of the move.
Move the courthouse east to the I believe that the people of Mar
center of Cottage Street between Ion county should have a chance
State and Court where the foun- to consider this before a new
tain is in the park. It will al- courthouse is built,
low normal growth in the city I. E. SUMPTER
and still have all the government 910 Norway St., Salem
change that fact. Unfortunately, middle and an
President Truman's statements na: .ln "as, a
that Stalin is a pretty good fel- beginning and a
i tu-f rhio middle, too
Justice Vinson might be able to
but it doesn't
straighten him out overlook the see.m t a an
fact that Russian policy is rigid.
It does not change easily. Nor
is it set by one man.
The Politburo sets policy and
it has been fixed in one groove
"He does not sin who
without intent." Seneca.
end. It goes on
and on and on
like the rim of !
a cup.
Sin is general
ly hiehlv un-
for years a groove which looks popuiar. But
to the day when the free world many people who denounce it
will fall of its own weight, plus jn public must practice it in pri-
persistent, cunning digging vate, 0r it wouldn't go on gett-
around the roots of the tree of ing ttie attention it does.
freedom by the Soviet world. Anyway, the more I investigat-
Shanghai's power plants are
rpnnrtpH nut nut nf MmmlMinn
"Sin brought death, and death trains run at night. Coastal and
will disappear with the disap- river shipping is being wiped
pearance of sin."-Mary Baker out and the Nationaiist bombers
r-,,, i are keeping foreign ships out
Little sins make room for 0f every Red port except Tient
great, and one brings in all." sin
Thomas Edwards. ' .
"Sin is not hurtful because it 's lnoeed an astonishing
is forbidden, but it is forbidden situation so strange, as a matter
because it is hurtful." Benjamin OI lacl- Inal we snouian't jump
Franklin.
to conclusions about the Chi-
"Sin writes histories, goodness m! 1
is silent." Goethe.
"Through sin do men reach
the light." Elbert Hubbard.
with it. They may have a pow
erful answer in due course.
However, it is interesting to
nntp that tha nxaeont nA.Ut
He that is without sin among seems to flt in with the generai.
issimo's hopes and plans. He
figures on beating the commu
nists by crippling their ship-
rr-u - u a.l 4U nmn..,n;ol oA tl.a nf cin the mnrn T
llie lUta melt me i.uiiiiiiuiiioi, nit iinu vi on. ..... . .
and democratic systems can live realized it was too complex for Z Tit
together side by side, as sug- a simple poor man's philosopher "ew -stameni.
sinH h Winston riinrphitl is to understand. Few lve to hear the sins
,u,',. nnnvii Thov ran't livp ... they love to act." Shakespeare, ping, land communications and
side by side for the simple rea- Like Calvin Coolidge's preach- "We cannot well do without industries with his air force, and
son that the politburo isn't going er, I'm "agin' it." But here are out sins; they are the highway launching guerrilla warfare at
in nprmit it what some of the great minds our virtue. Thoreau. many points on the mainland.
Those are some of the argil- f the past have thought about
ments against alternative No. 2 s'n:
and its long-drawn-out war of "That which we call sin in
nerves and diplomatic jujitsu. others is experiment for us."
. , . Emerson.
"Naught that delights is sin."
ATOMIC RECONSTRUCTION Ben Jonson.
Nevertheless, despite these (Bovle's note: This definition
depressing odds, I still believe has to be taken with a box of "To abstain from sin when a ing him through the grave fam-
we should adopt the second al- table salt.) man cannot sin is to be forsaken ine which has swept a wide area
ternative. I say this not because "There is often a sin of omis- by sin, not to forsake it." St. north of the Yangtze river. Mil-
I shrink from plunging the world sion as well as commission." Augustine. ijong 0f peasants are living on
into atomic-war though I con- Marcus Aurelius. ."Th? PrPer process of unsin- roots and grass. Death is tak-
fess that I do but for more "Sin is a state of mind, not an ning sin is to begin well doing." jng toll with a ruthless hand,
practical reasons. outward act." William Sewell. "0Derl crowning. and experts fear that mjiijon,
may perish before relief can be
"It would be better to eschew
sin than to flee death " Thomas
A. Kempis.
"Verily the sin lieth in the
scandal." Aphra Behn.
"The sin is not in the sinning,
but in the being found out."
W. G. Benham.
Plans for inspiring the guer
rilla outbreaks were laid months
ago. Chiang has been biding
his time until conditions seem
ed right.
Meantime nature has been aid-
First it wnnlrt take vears to "It makes a great difference wno sins and mends corn-
recover from the chaos left by whether a person is unwilling to mends himself to God." Cer- provided,
nn .lmin war H.VPn IT TUP Sin. OT QUtS 1 L KI UW 11UW. .......
destruction were confined to Seneca.
Boy Stuffed Into Trunk
Houston, March 9 Deputy sheriffs hauled in their
man last night soon after an excited woman shouted over the
telephone:
"Quick! I just saw a man stuff a boy Into tha trunk of a
ear and drive off with him."
The culprit eonfessed:
"I was taking some kids to a drive-In movie. And I put th
hoy in the trunk so I wouldn't have to pay for him."
Atom, Hydrogen Bombs Outlawed
Vauoluse-Fontaine, France, March 9 m.Ki The town coun
cil today enacted a law prohibiting the "hearing or use of
atomic or hydrogen bombs within tha city limits.'
Remembers Gas Ration Board
Grants Pass, Ore., March 9 U. Someone in Portland has
a guilty conscience.
Marvin Clark, insurance agent and head of the gas ration
ing board during the last war, received a penitent letter from
a former Grants Pass resident now living in Portland. It
read:
"During the war you were head of the gas rationing board.
At that time we had a car and also a buzi saw. We took some
of the tickets left over from tha bun saw and used them for
the car, which was illegal.
"My only defense is that I never used them for pleasure
trips but as needed to keep from coming In for more gas.
"However, even this was wrong, and I am willing to pay
th penalty for this whatever is thought right."
"He that falls into sin is a
man; that grieves at it, is a
saint; that boasteth of it, is a
devil." Thomas Fuller.
"A sin confessed is half-forgiven."
John Ray.
"One leak will sink a ship;
In China, as in other oriental
countries, the people blame the
current government for ill for
tune. That's what the commu
nist regime is up against and
will continue to be up against
until it can secure heavy inl
and one sin will ripstrnv a sin. Ports of foodstuffs and other
ner." John Bunyan. essential supplies. The way it
"The Gods visit the sins of looks now tne Chinese commu-
the fathers upon the children." n'sts must turn to the western
Euripides. world for most of their im-
"Every sin is the result of a mediate supplies and that cre-
collaboration." Stephen Crane. ates smother problem.
"Be sure your sin will find So it looks as though China is
you out." Old Testament. on the verge of fresh develop-
"A large part of mankind is ments. They are likely to speed
angry not with the sins, but with up as winter gives way to better!
the sinners." Seneca. weather.