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Capital AJournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor, and Publisher ROBERT LETTS JONES, Assistant Publiiher Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che meketa St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Want Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409. I Full Leased Wire Service of the Associated Press and The United r'ress. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or otherwise credited in this paper and also news published therein. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By Carrier: Weekly, 25c; Monthly. $1.00; One Year, $12.00. By . Mail In Oregon: Monthly, 75c; 6 Mos., $4.00; One Year, $8.00.' V. S. Outside Oregon: Monthly, $1.00; 6 Mos.. $6.00; Year. $12. 4 Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, March 14, 1950 i Why a Separate Drive for Red Cross? , Every year at this time the question arises: Why does the American Red Cross hold its own separate campaign t for membership and financial support? It's a reasonable question to ask and the answer is just s reasonable. The Red Cross is unique among national welfare agen- cies. It derives its authority from congress and is respon sible to congress for its acts. General George Marshall, '' national chairman of the Red Cross, described the organ ization's functions this way, as defined by federal statute : "First, to serve the men and women of the armed forces in peace as well as in war. Second, to act promptly and " efficiently in times of disaster to ease human suffering and distress." These and other duties involve emergency operations, ' often on a large scale. So the Red Cross must be free to : mobilize and expand its services to meet situations as they arise. It must be able to concentrate its whole strength on the relief of a stricken community or meet the huge de- mands of a national emergency. Therefore, experience has shown that the Red Cross ' can not delegate its fund-raising responsibility to another agency. Nor can it commit itself to an alliance which ' might hinder its freedom or capacity to meet its national and international responsibility. 1 What has been the experience in the past with joint , fund drives? General Marshall noted these findings in a personal investigation : i "I found that the Red Cross has already had unsatis factory experience with joint fund raising. Between World . War I and World War II more than 400 chapters merged their fund appeals with other organizations. "After several years of insufficient funds and curtailed ' services to the community, chapters found it necessary to ' withdraw from joint funds. One by one they re-established their own separate campaigns in order to survive." The general's point is well taken and backed by experi 1 once. Much Bigger Than a $64 Question The landslide of filings for office by the political con tenders leaves the average voter snowed under. It will take him a while to work his way out of the mass of names and to make his selections. Meanwhile, he is going to start wondering about other measures that will likely be on the May primary ballot. . And that brings up the important, but touchy, matter of , city, school and county proposals that will call for taxes. The city has been specific about its needs for the year. The cost has been figured at f 857,363. That would cover 1 aewage treatment, sewers, drainage, bridges and airport improvement. The city administration has listed the ' figures as "absolute minimums." Then to prove the point, the city has outlined the cost of projects needed by Salem for the next 10 years to show a program that anticipates improvements that will be "musts" in that time. The financing to handle those "musts" has been spread as equally as possible over the 10-year period. The school board had previously revealed what it will cost to build enough schools to care for the youngsters who are already here. The figure was for a three-year period, although the next eight years were anticipated, too. The call for more schools is like the call of the city for its improvements. The need is already here. It is not , for some possibility in the future. ' Then the county has its needs, too, for some tax money. i The county wants to finish collecting enough funds for the ' courthouse. There is the health center, also, that is pushed ' as an immediate necessity. The average voter in Salem will scratch his head in won derment at all this. The next thing he wants to know is exactly how much the city, school and county needs will , total when billed to him. That is not the $64 question but the many million dollar question for May. Something to Shout About ! Los Angeles is trying to propagandize Oregon. The Los Angeles harbor commission is blanketing the area with pamphlets telling what a fancy port the largest city in the west has. There is nothing subtle about the piece of literature. It shouts with figures and pictures and color of the glories of the Los Angeles harbor. Beneath the ballyhoo is a remarkable story.' The Los Angeles harbor is man-made. It was planned and built ' for shipping. It emerged from the .mudflats. And it is actually 20 miles south of the city of Los Angeles itself. ! In creating what the pamphlet convincingly insists is a first-class harbor, Los Angeles has proved that the citizens of a community with imagination and courage can build a better place. The limitations of the mudflats were over come. The distance of 20 miles from the city proper was i ignored. Despite handicaps and hardships, Los Angeles ! did build the harbor. And it's been only in the past 50 years. Too often obstacles are man-made, the pamphlet would eem to say. That's not bad kind of propaganda. Road Cited for Contempt of Court Prlnevllle, Ore., March 14 IU.B Circuit JudKe Ed Howell f John Day, Ore., has won him.irlf a place in the hearts ot central Oregon residents. Howell was delayed in arriving here yesterday to open court when Circuit Judge Ralph Hamilton ot Bend became suddenly ill. He said a "deplorable" stretch of road on state highway 28 near Mitchel had caused him to bog down tem porarily and that he was promptly holding that particular route In contempt of court. He said, however, the action would be dropped if the state highway department gets busy with some temporary paving and announced that he would support residents in their ap peals to have the route put back in shape. BY H. T. WEBSTER . . Life's Darkest Moment WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND BY CARL ANDERSON I've Been rcaoim about tfj OAMe Tfie kids haj ee&j PLAYING. T'S CALLeO CHICKCN- Ute KIDS ftACe BACH OTHCR WlfteTifc CARS, DRIVING AT TERRIFIC SPeeD WO WITH TfleiR MAUDS OFP The wHeet. Tne first kid -to grib IRE wneec is callso A CHICKCM. I THINK WHEN OUR WILLIE IS ABOUT 45 V&W5J OLD WSMISHT CONSIDER LETTING HIM DRIVE CAR HOW DKeAOPJL! WHAT CfH VMUSttTS Be TfcNKING OPTO U.LOW TF6IR CHILDREN TO DRIVE CARS 7 ITS JUST PLAIN INSANITV M V FACCD WITH iHe PROSPECT OF 06LAY BfiFORe S6CORING THE RIGHT To RISK HIS N6CK AT ft Jil lL New B-36 Could Flv to MOSCOW Henry And Return at Speed of Sound By DREW PEARSON Washington The air force is now designing a supersonic B-38 that will be able to accomplish what hitherto was considered the impossible a nonstop flight to Russia and back at the speed of sound. This may be one answer to the debate over the super airplane carrier, for the navy has contended that U. S. bombers would fly so mm. Draw Feanon KRISS-KROSS Salem Seems Empty This Week Without the Kids ByCHRISKOWITZ,Jr. Once again, it's state tournament week at Eugene. Many Salemites still vividly recall the many years that the colorful tournament was held in Salem . . . when the city be came a junior New Orleans . . . with the hordes of kids from throughout the state supplying the Mardt Gras touch. Restau ranti owners will lone remember those! flocks of kids at tourney timet . tho momis and spoons thatt went out of the doors in kid's pockets for sou venirs, w h i 1 c the manager lust flfnnri hv and quietly chr" """"' ,r grinned . . . the upturned glasses of water . . . the penny tips. A few veteran hotel custodians in Salem swear that every year during tournament week they can hear the echos of happy juvenile voices still through the corridors. Willamette university hasn't forgotten the unending stream of high - schoolers frolicking about the campus lawns slowly that they could be knock ed down by ene my fighter planes. There fore the navy urged a floating airplanebase to approach the enemy. What this new bomber means, however, is that the air force will now be able to make hit-and-run attacks again Russia at tremendous speed from home bases in the United States. For example, a squadron of supersonic B-36s, based in Maine, .could fly half way around the world, rain ato mic bombs on Moscow and get back home in less than 10 hours. The plan, still on the drawing boards, is to streamline the pres ent B-36 by giving it swept-back wings and a turbo-prop engine. Most important of all, however, will be a supersonic propeller, already developed by air force while neither the brother nor brother-in-law filed an income of more than $2000. Where they got the $18,000 nobody yet knows. Quickie Divorces Joe also has a record which has aroused comment for grant ing "quickie" divorces for his political friends or their clients. In Wisconsin, divorces are not supposed to be filed in two sep arate jurisdictions. But when McCarthy was a judge in Apple ton, Wis., his political friends, Congressman Kersten and Arlo McKinnon, suddenly brought the divorce case of Kordas vs. Kordas before him, even though it was already filed in Milwau kee. They got almost immediate action. The complaint was filed on Sept. 3, 1946 and the divorce was granted September 5. The two attorneys, Kersten and McKinnon both contributed to McCarthy's political cam paign. McCarthy also granted divor ces at about that time to two PAINT) iLr' jjg paint) PAINTp (SJ AnDeaaon POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER LU Salem truly misses the tourna ment . . . misses the kids who made everyone feel young for a week. Two housewives, waiting their turn at an Independence gro cery store, were overheard dis cussing the last depression. "It came at such a bad time," remarked one. "Just when every body was out of work." technicians. Hitherto onlv iet planes have been able to fly other Milwaukee residents, faster than sound. But the new Chester J. Roberts and Eileen propeller will permit propeller- Roberts, who were represented driven planes to fly at that speed by Max Litow, a prominent re publican wno also contributed to McCarthy's campaign. The divorce was granted in about also. Present trouble with superso nic jet planes is that their range is limited. However, the propeller-powered B-36 now has a range of 10,000 miles, and addi tion of the new supersonic pro peller will give it a speed faster than sound. Love Rates as Big Problem To Dwindling List of Kings A card received by one of our newsroom colleagues announces the birth of four boys and four girls. The receiver of the card thought he had stumbled onto ringing something more sensational than me auaa sexiupieis oi xne sieve Roper comic strip. But, read ing on, he found that the octu plcts were puppies. The card was sent by a former neighbor getting a sneak prevue of col- of the reporter. (Reporter's dog lege life in a classrooms and dor- 18 the alleged latner oi tne eignt mitories. puppies.) No, Salem will not soon for- get the state tournament and the kids who gave the whole city a carnival atmosphere. The third week in March will again seem dull and quiet . . . two days. During his 1946 campaign against Senator Bob La Follette, McCarthy not only failed to re sign from the bench but swaon. ar i. n ...:,u , " many I I .Juages 50 thrones and .v, -.n,,,HaiSii in various pariS nr,l ennnffh of tho t ..,i, i ,1 not enougn - ""-, me icauu mat the board of bar commissioners recommended to the Wisconsin supreme court that ho ho rfio- sin asked some friends for ad- barred. The supreme court stat vice on what he could do to en- ed that the senator had violated sure his re-election in 1953. He th Rtato mn,Ktn j it- wanted to start early, he confid- code of ethics of the American We,le- buncedf "i uuuu d ntuiu inn wuuiu car association, but failed to dis make certain his return to the bar him. By HAL BOYLE New York (If) Come, fellow peasants, let us sit upon the ground and tell sad tales of the plight of kings. The common man used to believe he bore most of the world's woes, but it turns out kings have their troubles, too. In the last century people worried because there were too McCarthy's Witch Backfires Last year, likable young Sen ator Joe McCarthy of Wiscon- many kings on poker hands. Today unem ployment is the plague of mon arch!. In olden times kings Elmer D. Cook, Polk county justice of the peace, writes his signature with just one, unbrok en line . . . the late Earl Snell wrote his name the same way. Carrying Coals to Newcastle Melbourne, Australia, March 14 (IP) When his truck caught fire on the highway, the driver put in a rush call to the fire departments of two nearby towns to bring fire extinguishers. The firemen put out the blaze and then inspected the goods the truck was hauling. They found a load of 400 fire extinguishers. MacKENZIE'S COLUMN America and Australia Agree On All-out Effort Against Reds By DeWITT MacKENZIE ((fl1) Foreign Affairs Analyst) It's of more than passing interest that the U. S. secretary of state and the Australian minister of external affairs laboring a world apart should simultaneously call for concerted and intens ified effort by democracy to meet the challenge of Russian com munism. senate. One friend urged that he push the St. Lawrence seaway which would benefit the Great Lakes and bring new business to Wis consin. It was also urged that he work for closer industrial co operation between neighboring Canada and the Great Lakes states. Finally it was suggested that any senator who consistent ly attacked communism would have a great appeal for the vot ers. Today the man who urged this latter advice, Father Edmund A. Walsh of Georgetown univer sity, is not happy at the outcome; while republican leaders are getting unhappier by the minute at the antics of the junior sena tor from Wisconsin. In the first place, McCarthy's witch hunt for communists in side the state department has disrupted our entire foreign ser vice at a time when our foreign relations are more delicately bal anced that ever. Sincere republi cans consider this a calamity. Second, politically-minded re publicans hitherto could make broad charges about communists That's the record of the man who now so vigorously challen ges the records of state depart ment employes. (Copyright 19501 off theit thrones because (1) they J went mad, (2) they cut off too many heads, (3) a stronger rela tive wanted the job, (4) they tales, and commoners have had Hal Borla tired of paying them too much in taxes. Now, however, kings seem to lose their ermine and sceptor over love love, that wonderful four-letter word. They gave up their power, their prestige, their dominions but, by cracky, the kings have showed a stubborn streak when it came to love. They have in sisted on exercising the right that princes have always had in fairy ilost a war, or (5) folks just got Dog Telephones a Man Midville, Ga., March 14 (U.PJ W. Elliott Curry, telephone operator, said he answered a buzz from Hugh Rountree's store yesterday but could only hear scratching and barking. He rang Rountree's residence and Rountree rushed to the store. Rountree said his dog Duke had been locked in. The tele phone was on the floor and Duke was barking away for help. President Best Paid Man in World Despite $100,000 Pay Washington, March 14 (U.PJ President Truman, with his yacht and gold-plated limousine, could well be the best paid man in the world. At least that's the way it looks to a republican congressman who has made a close study of how the chief executive. lives. Rep. Roy O. Woodruff, (R., Mich.,) says Mr. Truman has a and elevators, are paid for by ihs- ,, yearly salary of $100,000 after the air force. The Independence, taxes, a pretty substantial take- a super deluxe DC-6, costs $120 home pay by any standards in 000 a year for the crew alone, in real life: the right to go with the gal they like. King Carol, for instance, said, "To heck with Romania I'll take Madame Lupescu." Before he had even sat on the throne of England long enough to get it warm, Edward VIII gave it up for Mrs. Simpson, "the woman I love." And widower- King Leopold felt he couldn't help it if Belgium was overrun by invaders, and went right ahead and married a commoner. Now Leopold has won a ref erendum showing a majority of Belgium's voters want him re turned to his home country and throne. One thing you have to say about these monarchs: They have all stuck by the girl of And all the world these days of high taxes. But it's not just the salary that in the state department and get impresses Woodruff. These state-1 ments apparent ly are coincid ental, yet both recognize the funda mental fact that Mos cow is out for world domina tion. In effect they arc a warn ing to folks who continue to dal ly with the thought that the cold war can be halted at this juncture by compromise. DeWltl Alaekenila military and economic pact "be tween countries that have a vital interest in the stability of Asia and the Pacific, and which are at the same time capable of undertaking military commit ments." This alliance would be headed by the United States and would include Australia, the United Kingdom, and other Brit ish commonwealth countries, to gether with any other nations which might wish to join. He added: "Defensive pacts are in many ways negative. We look toward a pact that has also positive aims away with it. But now the har- em-scarem senator from Wiscon sin has reduced it all to cold figures. He started by claiming there were 207 communists or pro-communists in the state de partment, then reduced it to 57. But so far, any of the real pro communists he's mentioned had already been kicked out. Finally some of the republi can senators who really know the gentleman from Wisconsin The President, he noted, also sports a fleet of 35 automobiles, Woodruff said. A private citizen, he added, miles from Washington. analand, a ing an income tax argument and a move for his disbarment. loves a steadfast lover, crowned or crownless. Certainly all wives do. That is why the latest jobless Woodruff said Mr. Truman's private railroad car, with radio, teiepnone, Kitcnen, caning room, monarch, young chief Seretse bedrooms and shower, cost be- Khama of Bechuanaland, has tween $250,000 and $350,000 much Dublin svmnnthv two planes, a private pullman originally. It requires the serv- The Oxford-educated chief an car, a yacht, a navy destroyer ices of a steward and two mess involuntary exile in London is escort and a couple of vacation boys from the Williamsburg, he -pining for his absent bride hideaways. said pretty Ruth Wiliiarns a forme; They cost an estimated $30,- The marines supply a detail typist, who is holding the fort 433,000 originally and are man- of four officers and 57 men to for him back home in darkest ned by 665 people whose salary guard Mr. Truman's hideaway Africa. runs to about $1,500,000 a year, retreat, Shangri-la, in the Cato- Seretse rules 100 nnn Ramane- ctin mountains of Maryland, 70 watos, the largest tribe in Bechu- 975 nnn.,.qM.miia and the situation in his state are 0Uld n,?ed 3.500,000 a year to But what caught Woodruff's chunk of "the unknown contin afraid the democrats will raise llve on the scale- eye was Mr- Truman's new ent itle cry of: "Look who's talking!" ,T.he President's yacht, The limousine. With a gallantry rare even in For Joe McCarthy had some Williamsburg, would cost a pri- It has gold-plated doorhandles, civilized lands, his tribal coun troubles back home which don't vate owner $250.00 a year. The vanities and perfume cases. And cil has forgiven the young chief bear too much inspection includ- navv- whlch supplies a crew of its roof is specially designed so for marrying a white foreigner iuu men, siaiias uie expense. ivir. iruman ana nis guests can with no blue blood in her veins The President's two planes, get in and out without taking off Thev want him hav wmpictc wini mttiicu idi;uiucs mcii urns. But Britain's labor There isn't anything which the promotion of democratic can halt communism, except political institutions, higher liv- something that is better and ing standards, increased culuir- stronger than communism. al and commercial ties.' Secretary of State Achcson Mr. Spender then made a state flung a new banner into the ment which in time might pro wind "Total Diplomacy" as duce far-reaching results in the an inspiration for an all out fight relationship between Australia to prevent Red domination. He and America. He declared that laid down two lines of foreign Australia's aim is "to build up policy for this drive: with the United States some- 1. "To meet wherever possible what the same relationship as all thrusts of the Soviet Union" exists within the British com- as in the case of Turkey and monwealth." That means, I take Greece. it, a close but non-political 2. "To create those economic, brotherhood. political, social and psycholo gical conditions that strengthen and create confidence in the democratic way of life." Illus- The Australian minister called attention to the fact that the center of gravity of world af fairs now lies in the Pacific and Quick Thinker Wns Out Omaha, March 11 CU.ni a department store clerk told this tory today: A man and a woman spotted a pair of women's shoes at the tame time. Each grabbed one shoe and tried to out-talk th ther one. Then the man pulled out his billfold and paid tot the shoes. "I can't find the left shoe for this pair, but It's okay," ha told the clerk. "My wife has lost her left leg so I'll pay th fall price for one. Wrap It up." Two hours later, the man cama back and picked up the ther (ho. tration: The European recovery Asia areas. That is a true bill, program, and the American aid The weight of the cold war has In helping Indonesia to independ- shifted from Europe to the Far ence. The secretary summed up: East, and the outcome of the con- "When we have reached unity flict way well be decided in that and determination on the part of great theatre. As this column the free nations when we have has pointed out before, that may eliminated all of the areas of be Armageddon, weakness we will be able to So, judging from the state evolve working agreements with ments of the two foreign minis the Russians." ters,, America and Australia are thinking along similar lines in Meantime "down under" in the matter of the conflict with Canberra, Australia's new min- communism. That is, the time Ister of external affairs, Percy has arrived for a "total" effort C. Spender, proposed a Pacifia on the part of the democracies. Tax Troubles His tax troubles occurred in 1943, when the state of Wiscon sin claimed he failed to disclose an income of $42,000. Joe ex plained that he had made some money speculating in stocks while he was out of the United States and not a citizen of Wis consin; therefore, he didn't have to pay a state income tax. How ever, McCarthy still held office as a state judge at the same time he claimed he was not a citizen of Wisconsin, and in the end, tax authorities accepted a compro mise payment. Joe also managed to compro mise his tax troubles with the federal government. One year later, 1944, Joe ran against GOP Senator Alex Wi ley in the primaries and receiv ed a total contribution of $18, 000 from his father, his brother and his brother-in-law. Wiley defeated him. But when the cam paign smoke was over, it was discovered that McCarthy's fa ther didn't have enough income to file a tax return himself, govern ment, which relinauished India. U the brightest jewel in the im-' perial crown, says, "No. Seretse. Hollywood, March 14 (U.R) Movietown's famous fathers agreed y?u slay in England and be a , today that when it comes to raising children, mother knows . ex-cnief. There are dark best. Fathers Are 'Duds' as Parents A Texas schoolmarm says fathers are here say she's probably right. "We fall short of our duties because we're too tired or too lazy," Gene Kelly said. "There's a lot of truth in what she says." Dr. Lucinda de Leftwich Templin said In Chicago that when it comes to laying down the law to junior, fathers spoil the kids or pass the buck to mom. "You're so proud of them," Humphrey Bogart said, "that you leave everything up to your wife. "Even later on when he starts asking all those ques tions, I'll say, 'ask your moth er, son'." Robert Ryan admitted his wife does "all the hard work" raising their kids. "I figure mother knows best," 'duds" as parents. Fathers ays Harry James, Betty Grable's spouse. But Eddie Cantor, one of the town's champion fathers, sticks up for his side of the family. whispers as to why. There are hints that South Africa wants to take over Bechuanaland, and that a chief with an Oxford ac cent might stand in the way. So far the best offer the labor government has mario tn soretso "Why is it so many mothers is a guarantee of about $3,750 a say to papa, 'you take those kids year if ne wiU Play ball. in hand I haven't been able to Offhand, it looks like Seretse to anything with them all day?" could do better on Broadway and He chuckled. He added that he Hollywood. plans to revive the tune, "What's ru bet Rodgers and Hammer- the Matter with FatherT He's stein could assure him of at All Right." least $100,000 for a comic opera The town's champion mother, based on his life story young Maureen O'Sullivan, who has six love versus the empire. He could was on the same side. pick up another $100,000 or so "I wouldn't be a father for fro"i a film on the same sub nything," she said. ject. Free Kiss Not in Price of Meal Bandit Gets Sympathetic Detroit, March 14 (P) The young bandit who held up Gus Lakas' little grocery store Sunday night found just $3 in the cash register. He took the money out, then handed a dollar bill back to Lakas. "You're about as poor as I am," tha youth said, and fled. Tokyo, March 14 (U.R)Miss Kaeko Takahashl, 28, a waitress In a Tokyo restaurant, let a diner know in no uncertain terms today that the price of a meal did not include a free kiss. When he tried to embrace her, she bit his lip. The diner, vexed that his advances were spurned, smashed chairs and threw ash trays. Miss Takahashl called police. They did not search very long before finding and arresting a man with a bleeding lip. No man can humiliate me just because I am a waitress," aid Miss Takahashl.