Capital journal., June 13, 1950, HOME EDITION, Image 4

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Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, June 13, 1950
'further Along Toward Confusion
3 Mayors of west coast cities are meeting In San Francisco
(fiow to discuss civilian defense for an atomic attack. The
ynayors have been encouraged to meet by the admitted
legalization that Pacific coast cities would be "primary tar
tlets" for attack in any future war.
Mayor Robinson of San Francisco, host to the group,
has been a consistent critic of the federal government's
Jpart in defense planning. With the meeting's opening, Rob
Snson has continued his attack with a blast at the federal
Zprovernment' "unwillingness or inability" to plan such de
fense. Those In Oregon don't have to think back far only to
IFebruary of this year to recall an example of the con
tusion brought on by Washington, D.C.'s fuzzjr planning
f or defense. It was in February that Governor McKay was
"given a request to set up an air-raid warning system. No
explanation of the program accompanied the request. Mc
iKay finally did the only thing he could do under the cir
cumstances. He complied with the urgent request, even
though there was no explanation.
I .
? In a survey of the country, the New York Times has
pound that something less than half of the states have
5nade some sort of plans and adopted some legislation di
, rected toward civilian defense. The survey has also shown
that there is only the barest possibility that a nationally
i uniform program could become more than partly effective
(before 1952. No worthwhile program is probable before.
1953, when sufficient materials and facilities for a com
1 plete program will supposedly be available.
The New York Times discovered how inadeauate and
Junrealistie the-attitude throughout the country is toward
civil defense. It discovered, for instance, that one grave
Jwar-time disaster in a major American city would not only
3 require the nation's complete stock of whole blood but
wouia require more man ine country is now aoie io proauce
I'm an entire year.
As it looks now, a make-shift program will be submitted
to the states in September. The program will serve as
some kind of a guide to state, county and community au
thorities with materials and facilities at hand, men prob
ably in 1953 a definite defense blueprint will be made.
That means that the instructions received in a few
months by the governor will form the basis for some action
: by the legislature at next year's session.
' These facta show how poorly organized, how leisurely,
1 how inconsistent Washington defense planners are. Those
,' planners must believe the half of President Truman's state
' ments which claim that war possibilities are a long way off.
! Those planners are gambling the nation's security and fu
, ture on the president's optimistic statements. The pessi
mistic statements of Truman's advisers are being ignored.
i Brannan's 'Pink Pills for Pale People'
In opening the 77th annual state grange convention at
i' La Grande, retiring state grange master Morton Tompkins
' said that because of glaring weaknesses in certain farm
programs public disgust with costly waste of surplus com
modities may result in junking of all government price
support programs. To replace it he renewed his last year's
endorsement of the Brennan farm plan for at least a trial
run.
The Brannan plan devised by the secretary of agricul
ture would substitute direct payment by the government
to farmers for present government buying and disposal of
surplus to make up the difference between the competitive
market prices and priority prices, a scheme opposed by all
farm organizations except the Farmers Union.
While Tompkins was advocating the Brannan plan,
Albert S. Goss, national grange master, was speaking to the
61st annual convention of the Washington State Grange
at Everett, Wash., was rapping the Brannan plan in favor
of national grange plan.
The grange plan calls for a 12-man farm commission
appointed by the president on nominations from the 12
grange districts of the United States. It would be non
partisan, with not more than six members from the same
political party. It would make representations to the
secretary of agriculture and judge his action.
The grange plan is divided into six main points, as fol
lows, Goss Btuted:
1. "Ue everything we got. 2. Expand the marketing agree
ments act. 3. A multiple price system. 4. A flexible support
program. 5. Produce controls. 6. Produce payments."
Goss said the Brannan plan "abandons what the grange
fought for and built up for 20 years," adding that it was
for multiple farm problems, 'No pink pills for pale people.
There is no one answer. Wo have as many problems as
products. No one man is capable of doing this job." Ho
concluded:
"The Brannan plan If basically unsound as it buys consum
ers' food with tax money and spreads more taxes over the
,' whole nation as a mult It won't work for long. The grange
doe not want to go to congress for unknown billions of dollars
for subsidies. We want to produce what we can and take a
fair price that we can get for It."
Evidently Tompkins is out of step with the national
president and favors "pink pills for pale people" in the
guise of a Brannan plan, as a cure-all for all farm problems.
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OF WYATT BARP, The
Toughest Peace once.
The old wesT even. Kwew
5
go, he Is afflu
ent, and his
wife is a mem
ber of one of
the big textile
families of
north Georgia.
Yet, on top of
the fee from
Ralph Stanfield,
the congress
man also enjoys
neat arrange-
m
KRISS-KROSS
Dogs Named Everything
From Rags to Cinderella
ByCHRISKOWITZ,Jr.
If dogs were able to understand the English language and
American slanguage, no doubt thousands of canines in this
country would be insulted each time they heard their names
called.
Some people are content to name their dogs Rags, Spot, Sandy,
Skipper or Las
sie .. . decent
monikers for,
any mutt.
Other dog
owners Insist on
calling their
pets by weird
names. Some of
them we've
heard of are
Fancy Pants.
Fiji, Sigma Phi,
Scaredy Cat
L1L
Chrlf KwMs, Jr.
cat, planted a swift kick in the
sternmost section of the cat's
anatomy, and said, "Get in there,
damit." From then on the cat
had a name "Damit."
Naming cats can sometimes
present some difficulties. Such
as the cat belonging to some
friends. Feline's name was
Tommy . . . until it had kittens.
To guard against any possible
name-changes, we named our
cat Gismo. The beauty of that
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Congressman Wood Solved
Servant Problem and How
By DREW PEARSON
Washington It s a peculiar thing about Congressman John S.
Wood, the Georgia democrat whose office took a $1,000 fee from
a crippled boy for getting a $10,000 compensation bill passed
by congress after the boy was hit by a U. S. army truck.
The peculiar thing if that financially Wood is well off. At most
congre s s m e n .
For while Governor Warren haa
done hit best to clean up Cali
fornia's serious crime cancer, he
has been powerless to do much
because of the fact that his at
torney general is independent of
the governor and solely in
charge of state law enforcement
The attorney general race,
therefore, was locally almost as
important as the race for gov
ernor; and .here it one back
stage factor responsible for
ment whereby he put his colored Howser's crushing defeat
servant on the congressional Two years ago this commen-
payroll. tator called Howser the friend ot
In other words, the servant the gamblers and described some
served in the home of Congress- 0j his alleged operations with
man Wood while paid $50 a the gamblers. Howser waited
week by all the taxpayers. This aDOut a year and then sued for
is a way to solve the servant ibei. inside fact is that he
problem which every housewife didn't want to sue, actually
would relish. wrote a leter to his Washington
Here is how the congressman attorneys, Herbert Bingham and
manipulated this piece of gravy. Roger Robb, pointing out that
The servant's name is William a California court had Indicted
Fowler and he has been attach- tome of his agents in connection
ed to the Wood family for years, with the gambling racket there-
When the congressman became fore the suit might not be wise,
chairman of the un-American Bingham and Robb, however,
Activities committee in July wrote back that this should not
1945, he promptly shifted Fow- deter him from suing Pearson;
ler from his personal payroll so the suit was filed,
to the payroll of the committee jter, however, when attor-
as a janitor. ney general Howser's desposi-
Fowlers salary paid by tion and others were taken, one
Uncle Sam was $191.88 a phase of my charges against him
month, which is not bad pay were prved namely that he
for a janitor, especially since he wa, a friend of the gamblers,
spent most of his time at the witn thi, part of his libel suit
Wood home rather than at the obviously lost, Howser went into
Capitol. However, he did appear court and asked permission to
at the committee rooms from drop this part of his case, and
time to time. Justice Bolitha Laws, of the
Fowler stayed on the un- u. S. District of Columbia
American Activities committee enurt. i.t him nt with Ht
However, the fact that Howser
had stuck his neck out by claim
ing he Was not a friend of gam
blers and then, by withdrawing
""we
Good Ad for Prize Movie
Stockton, Calif., June 12 OJ.R) A tally ot votes in Califor
nia's primary election showed today 75 write-in vote for
Willie Stark for governor. '
Stark Is the ruthless politician who was the central
figure of the academy award movie, "All the King's Men."
filmed here two years ago.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
A Dream House Is Still
Just a Dream to Hal
By HAL BOYLE '
New York W") The greatest home-lovers are those who never
bought a house.
Or so it seems to them. .
Owning a place of his own Is one of man's oldest dreams, and
nothing proves more surely that, to this extent at least, he is a
cap! t a 1 i s t by .
nature.
It begins In
childhood. And
a growing boy
relives the his
tory of the hu
man race's de
sire for a better
shelter.
Soon after he
learns to walk
he starts crawl
ing under the
table and piling chairs around
!iraawasi
at-.
Hal B.rl
And the longer he goes with
out his own home the more he
wants it in his heart, no matter
what his mouth says.
My trouble is I can't make up
my mind what kind of a home
I really want. At first all I
wanted was a log cabin like the
one Thoreau lived in at Walden
Pond. But this was impractical.
I couldn't build it. I knew if
I went into the woods and cut
down a tree it would fall on
me. That's how inept I am.
it to build him a kind of lean-to Once I even was run over by a
home. Next he digs a cave in milk wagon,
the backyard, roofed over with Later came the grandoise
tin, where he can roast potatoes period. I wanted an estate with
over a smouldering fire and eat formal gardens and a huge 46
them half-raw in smoky, savage room mansion with 47 bath
dignity, rooms something crawling
Then he risks breaking his with 17tl century draperies and
arms, legs and neck to build a Italian renaissance marble. I
tottery tree house in the nearest didn't give up this dream merely
elm or oak, and feels he is in- because it would require $3,000,-
uuu. Who knows a kind mil
lionaire might leave me that
"Why, it would take 30 serv
ants to staff a place like that,"
a friend told me. Well, that
ended that. Who wants 30 maids
Not a Pre-Shrunk Yard
London, June 12 U.B The British Board of Trade let out
a state secret today tha shrlnk-proof British Imperial yard
is shrinking.
The Imperial yard Is a metal alloy bar which comes as
tar to being II inches compared to the metric system aa
alx decimal points eaa make it
It was measured at .MJ9i maters In 1S9I and nestled
in a special vault Bnt despite precautions It did what It
was not supposed to do. It shrank twe mllllontha ot Its ori
ginal length.
Officials dlattvtrtd the secret twe yean age bnt kept
ejuiet beeaase If the havoe It could cans In measuring
circles. The yard It tht standard measuring rule of tht
mplrt. Ntw that It's therttr, everything British at cor
respondingly 1 on gar,
'Parliament will have to put a special act before any
' changes eaa be made In tht yard aa It ntw Is the length
f a metal bar which it iwe mllllontha of a yard lest than a
yard.
Dimples, Cinderella, Hot Cakes, name that lt fiu either gen-
Snookums, Marshmeiiow ana der.
Beedlebaum. '
There's Probably an Interest- Latest courthouse rumor (ab
ing story behind the naming of ,0,utely official): New court
every pet We re reminded of house to constructed on west
a large black cat which served end rf mUlma with
as mascot for several U. S. Navy nt courtnouse block being
flyers during the war. The cat eyotei t0 bu,llM!M site,.
always accompanied them on .
flights. The fellows loved their
cat, but nobody could find a Sunday was a day that will
suitable name for the lazy, stub- be long remembered by Mr. and
born creature. Then one day Mrs. Gordon Pratt . . . late that
when an airplane was about to afternoon Gordon Pratt and La
take off on a crucial bombing Fyrne Showacy received their
mission, the cat refused to get diplomas from Willamette uni
in the plane. One of the flyers versity . . . then a few hours
lost his patience, got behind the later they were married.
OPEN FORUM
Tidings From Washington County
To the Editor: Received today copy Capital Journal (June 10)
containing great news "Steelhammer Holds 36 Votes For
Speaker!" "Election Assured With Others Climbing On Band
Wagon!"
Congratulations, Speaker Steelhammer Oregon Is with you
now it is up to Marion county "
to roll up an overwhelming mighty fine lot of people In a
majority for Representative great county in the greatest
John F. Steelhammer next No- state in the west!
vember at the polls! EARL E. FISHER
I believe they will do just State Representative
that for it is the home of a Washington County, Oregon
MacKENIIE'S COLUMN
ECA Funds Bringing Aid to
People of European Colonies
By CLARK BEACH
(SutitltutlM for DawlU Mftcktnil. AP Forttta Afrtlrs Ana!t)
When the European recovery program was launched, many
a student of history feared it would open a new era of colonial
exploitation.
European leaders had proclaimed that Europe must develop
its colonies and possessions as an essential aid to Europe's re
covery. The questions asked
were: Africa and other colonial areas
Would they simply drain off that "the need for educating lo
the natural riches of the colo- cal populations and raising their
nies, leaving the natives only standards of living as a funda
wlth their wages and depleted mental requirement of progress"
resources? has become a major preoccupa-
Or would they plow a good tion of the governments con
ahare of the profits back Into cerned.
the busines, enabling the na- "Policy makers," he added,
Uvea themselves to benefit per- "are apparently realizing more
manently, to raise their standard and more that, concurrently
of living, to develop their own with agricultural world develop
Indepednent economies? ment they are responsible for
the welfare and education of lo
Some U. S. officials are re- cal populations."
assured having had an oppor- in an the countries he visited,
tunity to observe how ECA he said, there were programs
fundt have been spent In the to promote health, education,
colonies, and to atudy develop- rural welfare, credit transpor
tnent programs that the Euro- tation, marketing and distribu
tes n countries have conducted tion. Various forms of vocation
with their own funds. al training were provided. And
They say there is no doubt in all countries the natives were
that the countries of Europe are being taught how to grow more
showing determination to share food, through demonstrations of
the profits of colonial enter- modern farming methods,
prises with the people in the .
colonics. All this it in sharp contrast to
About $300,000,000 of ECA tha old colonial system, under
funds hat been spent In colonial which foreign owners simply set
dependencies. In addition, $100,- up their rubber plantations,
000,000 In counterpart funds has their tin, copper or bauxite
been Invested there. One ECA mines and left the natives with
official who works In this field nothing but their coolie wages,
says that a large share of this Even in the most prosperous
money is going Into projects yean the natives made no prog
which will be of permanent ress at Individuals. In years
benefit to the communities In- when rubber, tin, copper or
volved. bauxite were not In demand la
world markets, they were)
Norrtt X, Dodd, director gen- thrown out of work. Then na
eral ot tha United Nations food Individual farms or native eco
a n d agriculture organization, nomy were available to relieve
aid aftar a recent trip through their poverty.
payroll until Jan. 4, 1947. This
was exactly the date that Con
gressman Wood ceased to be
chairman. The republicans took
over and after that the post of one part Gf his suit was forced
janitor was abolished. admit. rttt that h
The republicans apparently the friend of gamblers was not
icit mai jtmuur was jiui ueces-
sar, though Parnell Thomas,
then chairman, padded the pay
roll in various other ways and is
now in jail.
UNIQUE LAW PARTNER
It is also interesting that Con
gressman Wood kept his law
partner, Carl Tallant on the
government payroll as his office
assistant for $7,022.
Even the greenest congress
man knows that it is illegal for
a congressman to take a fee in
any case against the govern
ment; nor is his law office sup
posed to take such a fee if the
congressman is any way in
volved. Most congressmen separate
themselves from their law offi
ces as soon as they are elected,
as for instance. Senator Mc
Mahon of Connecticut. However,
Wood's law partner sits right in
the congressman's office draw
ing a $7,022 salary from the tax
payers. And enjoying this
unique capacity, he exacted a
fee of $1,000 from crippled
Ralph Stanfield, Immediately
after the latter received his gov
ernment compensation.
No wonder Congressman
Wood Immediately told the
boy's father to keep the matter
very quiet
CALIFORNIA CRIME
One of the most crushing de
feats in the history of Califor
nia politics was administered
last week to the republican at
torney general, Fred N. Howser.
Not only was he overwhelmingly
defeated for the democratic
nomination, but he also ran last
for the nomination in his own
party.
This was a significant fact in
the California crime cleanup.
BY CARL ANDERSON
lost on the voters of California.
They let him have it with both
barrels and on both tickets.
NOMAD PRISONERS
A heart-rending story of how
106 Jewish refugees, who fled
first from the Nazis, then from
the communists, finally landed
at Ellis Island, was unfolded to
President Truman the other day
by Rep. Manny Celler of New
York.
The refugees escaped Nazi ty
ranny before the war and set
tled in Shanghai. Then a new
terror beset them as the Red
army overran China. Again they
fled this time hoping to find
sanctuary in the United States,
However, immigration author
ities at San Francisco couldn't
clear them since they had no
passports. So the 106 homeless
men, women and children were
put aboard a "sealed" train and
taken across the continent to
Ellis Island for deportation back
to Germany.
During the trip they looked
out of the train windows at what
to them was a land of dreams.
They could see the majestic
Rockies, the broad prairies, the
fertile, well - kept Iowa farm
land, the Mississippi, the great
industries of the East.
But they couldn't leave the
train. The doors were locked
and guarded.
'The tragic thing is that they
are so close and yet so far from
the one thing they seek free
dom," Celler explained to the
president. "Though In the great
est home of liberty, they are still
prisoners."
Much moved, Truman said:
"These people are not sacks of
potatoes. They are human
beings. We've got to help them."
tooprrltht 1H0)
deed monarch of all he surveys.
And, finally, he comes down
into the backyard again and con
structs a wooden shack as a kind
of clubroom for his pals. He
nnslf tt tlffn An 4Via nn
"Grownup - Stay out! This ?nd .bu1f Pad " Paddin about
Means You!!!" hls halls? . . ,
He usually has a lock on his For tne last rve
shanty too. And that shows he mucn time gomg through
now has a personal sense of the real estate sections, mentally
property. t t t buying a home one moment dis
carding it the next. There's
For a few years he doesn't do something wrong with them all.
any more building. He is busy It isn't the size of the house
with finishing school and going anymore. I'll settle for six
through the cocoon agony of be- rooms, an acre and a view of
coming an adult. mountain and water. But I can't
After he gets a Job and mar- decide where I want my house,
ries, he starts dreaming again I'd like it in Connecticut and
of a place really his own. Wheth- Maine, in Florida and Califor-
er he actually does buy a home nia, on the Riviera and on Hong
or stays a renter the rest of Kong, in Kansas City and in
his days, he never forgets the Seattle. And In Albuquerque
thrill of that first jungle lean- and on the Isle of Capri and
to in his parents' living room, oh, at least a hundred other
the cave, tree house and shanty places.
in the backyard. The yearning It looks now as though my
is there; inherited across the dream house if I ever get it
ages. For home stands for se- will be a trailer and on the
curity much more than it does Isle of Capri and a portable
for mere pride of possession. outdoor barbecue pit.
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Effective June 18
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Latest departure, earliest arrival. No Extra Fare.
m
Eastbound No Change
Example
Friday
Sunday
Lv. Portland 5:30 p.m
At. Chicago 11:30 ajn.
. Went hound Kw cufcMfnl
Lv. Chicago 5:30 p.m. Friday
Ar. Portland 7:30 a.m. Sunday
"PORTLAND ROSE" . . . Convenient through service to
Denver, Kansas City, Omaha, and Chicago . . . direct con
nections for Salt Lake City, St. Louis, Texas, Southwest
and East.
Eastbound New Schedule
Hen
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Q
Lv. Portland 8:30 p.m.
Ar. Denver 8:00 a.m.
Ar. Kansas City 11:15 p.m.
Westbound No Change
Lv. Kansas City 11:30 p.m.
Lv. Denver 5:30 p.m.
Ar. Portland 6:15 a.m.
"IDAHOAN" Fast schedule with through service connecting
with the "City of St Louis" Streamliner for Denver, Kan
sas City, St. Louis. Direct connections also for Salt Lake
City, Texas, Omaha, Chicago, East and South.
Eastbound New Schedule
Example
Friday
Sunday
Sunday
Friday
Saturday
Monday
Lv. Portland 8:10 a.m.
Ar. Denver 7:43 p.m.
Ar. Kansas City 7:43 a.m.
Ar. St Louis 1:00 p.m.
Westbound New Schedule
lv. st. louis 4:00 p.m.
Example
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Sunday
Friday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Lv. Kansas City 9:30 p.m.
Lv. Denver 7:43 a.m.
Ar. Portland 4:40 p.m.
THE "SPOKANE" . . . Coach and new Pullman accommo
dations to Spokane.
Eastbound New Schedule
Lv. Portland 8:43 p.m.
Ar. Spokane 7:00 a.m.
Westbound No Change
Lv. Spokane 9:30 p.m.
Ar. Portland 7:00 a.m.
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