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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
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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
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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
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OF 06LAY BfiFORe S6CORING
THE RIGHT To RISK HIS N6CK
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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
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
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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.