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Capital Adjournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1888 GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor ens Publisher ROBERT LETTS JONES, Assistant Publisher Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che meketa St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Wont Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409. Full Leased Wire Service ef the Associated Press end The United Press. The Associated Press In 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, 25e; Monthly, Sl.M: One Tear, $12.00. By Mail in Oregon: Monthly, lie; $ Ms., $4.00; One Tear, f S.00. D. 8. Outside Orefon: Monthly, f 1.0: Mm., C.0; Tear, f 12. 4 Salem, Oregon, Thursday, September 21, 1950 WHAT IS A "LIBERAL"? A reader of the Capital Journal requests the "proper definition of a political liberal and conservative." It is small wonder that the inquirer is confused, for poli tical parties in most countries keep their original titles, appropriate at the time of origin, for the principles en dorsed, but abandoned and reversed later. In our own country the democratic party was founded to advocate freedom of the individual, decentralization of government, to perpetuate state, local rights, individual liberty, and oppose the principles it now advocates, then favored by their opponents, the Federalists. Democratic 'liberals" now favor centralization of power t Washington in the hands of an all powerful bureau cracy appointed by the president. To this they have added endorsement of the creeping paralysis of socialism and strange foreign Ideologies that pave the way to totalitar ian tyranny, the police state and the road to serfdom. Webster gives the definition of political liberalism as : "Not bound by authority, orthodox teneti. or established forms In political or religious philosophy; independent in opin ion; not conservative, often specifically havng tendency toward democratic or republican as distinguished from monarchial or or aristocratic forms hence adopted as the designation of poli cial parties, in some countries, notably England." In England the designation of a liberal was first applied In the first quarter of the 19th century in derision to the more radical element in the Whig party, but soon sup planted Whig both as adjective and noun. About 1830 Conservative supplanted Tory, the earlier names being re served for the Conservative minority in each party. Webster defines Conservative in a political sense: "Designating of or pertaining to or characteristic of, a poli tical party, which favors the conservation of existing institu tions and forms of government; opposed to change or innova tion." Liberalism as a term in politics originated to indicate the advocates of freedom in church and state, as anti clericalism in Spain, France and Italy. But liberalism al ways claimed the merit of working on constitutional lines or to secure a constitution as a guarantee of freedom. Under one name or other liberalism appears in the politics of every modern state, but the name Liberal may be very far from having any right to the name. The name has been prominent only in politics, of Germany, England and Canada. The New Deal brought forth these definitions in congress. Of a liberal "A liberal is one who believes in new laws and more job-holders, therefore in higher taxes and leas liberty." A liberal is one who Is willing to spend somebody else s money. "A liberal is one who has both feet firmly planted In the air." Every New Dealer. Fair Dealer, every communist and fellow traveler, every Progressive, every ex-Common-wealther blatantly proclaims himself or herself a "liberal" which has brought the term into obliquity. Associate Justice Robert H. Jackson in his decision up holding the validity of the anti-communist oath required by the Taft-Hartley act said : "The see-saw between freedom and power-makes up most of the history of governments, which as Bryce points out, on a long view consists of repeating a painful cycle from anarchy to tyranny and back again." The objectives of many of those posing as "liberals" in the name of security would undermine our freedoms, open the way to oppression and destruction of democracy, with the concealed purpose of establishing eventually the police state of totalitarian tyranny. OREGON FOURTH IN SCHOOL SUPPORT Oregon, along with Texas and North Carolina, stands fourth in the nation in the percentage of personal income of its citizens spent in support of public schools. In a survey conducted jointly by the United States de partment of education, the University of California school of education and the Council of State Governments, it is shown only in New Mexico, Utah and Arizona are higher contributions made for operation of public schools. inis revelation comes as the voters are asked to armrove an additional $30 for every "census school child" to be added to the $50 assessment now made under the basic school law approved by the voters in 1946. When the people voted the $50 per-census-child lew it. was estimated by its sponsors that the first levy would be only $13,000,000 a year. It was almost $3,000,000 higher that first year. Under the 1950-51 tax levy the basic school lew will yield $18,424,750 and according to estimates made by the state department of education the $50 tax will produce $19,400,000 annually in the following two years. ll tne proposed 3U increase to the basic school levy prevails the basic school levy will provide $30,800,000 and become progressively greater as the huge increase in school registration, predicted by all school administrators, becomes an actuality in the next three and four years. Funds for the basic school levy are coming from surplus state income tax funds with the result that the property owners have actually been unaware of the added school contributions. Members of the state tax commission and the state budget director have estimated that with declining income tax returns, the present surplus will vanish by the end of 1952 and the state will be in the red to the tune of approx imately $34,000,000 based on present state income and expenditures. Should tne basic scnooi addition be approved, together with the proposed soldier bonus, these officials declare this state deficit will be in excess of $60,000,000. Should this be the case, it is certain that a substantial portion of the basic school levy funds will be collected in taxes from the property owners of the state, thus adding to the already high school taxes paid In the school dis tricts of the state. Town Marshal Gets Gun Rlverton, III., Sept. 11 ( Rlverton's tewn marshal Is going to get a gun, the town board has decided. Marshal Pete Card ra I hasn't kef a pi the last few years. tot he told heard members last (ngMi "Yea eaa't tell what might happen these days.' The board agreed and voles e say aim a gun te protect thai central Illinois eesasMaity ef MOO population. BV BECK The Tip Off SSiSSgSTO PLAY GAOCERY STOW AT ffe!33jisjg T&Jf&Xr&fii. OUR HOU6E. Y0UVl LAX) IN f RTt WJl TTVt so much stuff that Nss a ' l ' I ail WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Executives Working for U. S. Draw Lush Pay from Industry By DREW PEARSON Washington Congressional memories sometimes are very short. It was only last year that the senate refused to confirm Carl Ilgenfriti as chairman of the munitions board because he declined to give up his $60,000 salary from the U. S. Steel cor poration. BY CARL ANDERSON Henry in 0mr IHafM KRISS-KROSS At Last . . . Another Use Found for Plumber's Friend ByCHRISKOWITZ.Jr. Finding other uses for common household items has always fascinated me . . . such as using light bulbs for darning socks, matches to hold shirt collars in place, etc. ... I always thought there must be some good use for sanitary plungers besides un plugging sinks and tolleU . . . a few years ago, I found that they worked pretty good inr. picking up cor-i ners of linoleum' to sweep dirti under . . . but,!: someday, I kept'; telling myself I'd find a much more practical use for the plumber friend. oar. K.wiu. jr. Now. I've dis covered it ... a sanitary plung tXV I Xg aand, she leans over (quite un gracefully) and, with her free hand, runs a finger down the hole ... U she feels a clam therein, the plunger goes Into action . . . sne places the red rubber end of the plunger over the hole, then starts an up-and-down movement that would be the envy of any plumber . . . after a while, she reaches down the hole again with her free hand . . . noting tne position oi However, Just about the same thing is now haonenlna with two other SV high officials and nothing is being said about It. They are: 1. E. G. Plow m a n, another U. S. Steel exe cutive, who gets $60,000 a year from his company while work ing for Uncle Sam as director of the defense department's military traffic service. 2. William H. Harrison, who has just assumed charge of war controls in the commerce de partment while still drawing his salary from International Tele phone and Telegraph. The excuse given for permit ting men to draw a salary from private industry while working for the government is that it is hard to get good men to serve the government without doing so. This is true in peacetime. But in wartime, when thousands of G.I.'s not only have to give nn 4hAti Inha Vint 4hoi livac It would seem that enough patri- la"ded a Inchon. Bradley scur- otic businessmen would be will- " """"su" ing to work for a government stipend of $13,000 to $20,000 a year. the U.N., actually, Russia Is dead against Red China joining the world organization. Accord ing to British intelligence, Rus- sia hopes that by keeping China our, ine can remain as unina s spokesman and appear to the Chinese people to be their one real friend. Bevin and Nehru are also con vinced that Mao Tse-Tung and the Kremlin are not getting along well. They hope Mao will become a Chinese "Tito." Therefore, Bevin and Nehru plan to bring the question of seating the Chinese to a vote before the general assembly where the veto cannot be used. However, it will probably re quire a two-thirds vote to seat Red Chinese and exclude the Nationalists. The British think they can muster the required votes to break the deadlock. MERRY-GO-ROUND General Bradley, chairman of the 1oint chiefs nf staff tnnlr off to rest and work on his MacKENZIE'S COLUMN memoirs tne otner day. Im- . mediately fireworks broke loose. First Secretary of Defense John son was fired, then the Marines - - 'H W ttutm V.. I- W-1 J Three military men have served as secretary of war. Mat. Gen. Henry Knox, an officer in the Revolutionary war, was the first Big Three Make Separate Peace with West Germany JIMMY ROOSEVELT Jimmy Roosevelt helped to place the insurance on two housing projects at an air force field at Victorville, Calif. Air force officials state, how- . The 953 lobbyists, paid $7,. 000,000 a year to bring pressure on congress, are heading for home . . . More than a million cover iv ... - a-...-., then back t0 work er works wonders in digging plunger. ever, hat they had nothing to lon5 of Aeel plate and ; have .Ti . ins,ur.ance' gone underground in the last and that the matter was left en- six weeks-part of it bootlegged clams ... in fact, you don't have n iUi- at all when you use a Believe it or not, it actually works . . . plunger sucks tne promoters. ' I 'hnro am Iwa hAu.in. n-A. ' " t. Ket price cio a. .iic viLiuivuie air uase: " .... - wurna . f - o - - plunger ... the secret is suction clam right to the top, ana an . . . method is amazingly simple th. lady ha, to, do is pick up . . . it's been tried and proven. a too . .a lady who lives Desiae the Alsea river, near the mouth of Drift creek, uses the method regularly . . . and it works beau- Ta-4 T9nlr..M,ll .1..t 1, 41-. ... , ,.0,n u,h oy me victor out of tne bag whe h, intr0. f"ey vH?,1SLng.Srorp - and 250 duced Senator Byrd of Virginia ""'"to uuiii Mjr i.itrsti vsiaicrs. C. O. Moore is the owner of WflA Pnifprsnn. wno October 1, assumes position of health educator for Marion county health dept., was on St. Helens By DeWITT MacKENZIE (IS) PONlra Affairs Analyst! Th decision of the Bitr Three powers Britain, France and secretary of war, while two Civil America to end their protracted state of war with western Ger- war generals Grant and Sher- many is a strategic move calculated to maintain peace and to man also served as secretary, strengthen the defenses of western Europe. lis lerms consuiuic a warning w x.ua. im. v ......-.w ...... government, with the Big Three continuing occupation. But will Germany remain di vided permanently? I don't believe so. The Germans are a clannish folk and it's in the book that sometime in the distant fu ture these two portions of the Fatherland will coalesce, by force or otherwise. The Big Three decision not to end military occupation of the country serves a double pur pose: It is a safeguard against it sells $50 a ton above the mar- Industrialist Wil- tifully. high school coaching staff with Here's how lady catches clams ex-Willamette U. footballer Doug ... she attires herself in a pair Qa in 1948 . . . Doug is now of unbecoming shorts, loads a principal of Jefferson, Ore., high couple of kids and a plunger achool . . . Elmer Schaake, for in her boat, and shoves off down mer Willamette university bas the Alsea . . . when she comes ketball coach, is now at Bur to a good spot for clams, she Ungame, Calif., high school . . . grabs plunger in hand, crawls Die Wilkins, an end on this out of the boat and begins wad- year's Bearcat football team, got ing. his gridiron schooling from Upon reaching a hole in the Schaake at Burlingame. POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER One-Day Diary of Tripto Kimpo Is Just One Ditch After Another (Editor's Note: AP war eorrespondent Bill Ross, plnch hlttlng todsy for war eorrespondent columnist Hal Boyle, was a marine combat eorrespondent In the second World war). By WILL ROSS (SubaUlutlns far nal Boris) Kimpo Airfield. Korea (Delayed) m It often takes a lot of time to cover a very few miles in a war like this. This Is a one-day diary of a trip to Kimpo airport from Inchon. a.m. With General MacArthur, members of. his staff and other correspondents we have a look at six burned-out commu- 12:15 p.m. We turn down the nist tanks road Kimp0 and pa" the While MacArthur chats with tersectlon of the Inchon-to-fellow officers, Marine Pfc. Seoul highway where an enemy Frank Adams, Jr., Frederick, strongpoint had held us up. Mr , Um o the fight. 12:20 p.rn.-We are in an- oiner aiiuii. 9 20 a.m. General MacAr- Ten minutes later the picture thur leaves for the rear. But I i brighter. There's no fire and came down the road toward we crawl out and cross a double "uT rLTTT7t r"irw.droown the road and SSJ arm. fire c.a.tcr. Just .i Cant George C. We.tover of habit. We are in another ditch, wihii. K, slons to tell his This time with two marines. k .. ;un fnr the dav His "The last time I saw you was company ."toinVlelroff l i" -other hole." say. one. company is , ioW.rH That was several years ago In Klmoo SI walkTimhlm un. Iwo Jim.. The sergeants both m I mt three other corrS- correspondent, for Leather- Lm,. " magazine, the official mi- ,P10?50 am-W. can see Kim- rine corp. monthly publication, po airfield about four miles dis- a tant. The airstrip looks desert- 8:41 p.m. This ditch is mud ed and tha administration build- dy too but It's deep and very ings and hangars appear gutted comfortable. We've run into a and burned out. nest of Reds along the last little 11:27 a.m. We are in a ditch, ridge before Kimpo. A communist somewhere down 5:55 p.m. Still here but things the road sent us there when he are quieting down. The tanks opened up with small arms fire, have fired a smsll village about Tanks and Infantrymen move 25 yards to the right and are out to clean up the rislstance moving toward the airport, pocket. 6:20 p.m. The first marine 11:45 a.m. A sergeant with assault company reaches the a shoulder wound is brought to edge of Kimpo and starts across our ditch by a navy corpsman. with tanks. There is little op- "Wlll you see that this msn position, gets onto the first ambulance 7 p m. Nearly dark now and that passes?" the medic asks, t can hardly see my watch so We will. the diary Is knocked off for the Captain Westover came down night, the road In a running crouch. I didn't resume the daybook "Sorry you got hit. Bill," he this morning because there was said tu his sergeant. "Take rare too much action. But I do re nt yourself, son, and we will be member talking to Lt. Albert F. seeing you again. Good luck." Belbustl of Framingham, Mass., The ambulance came and the during the night. Said he: sergeant was taken aboard. The "All this strikes me as being firing died down ahead and to a helluva way to spend a hell our right. We moved on down uva evening in a helluva coun the road. try." Manufacturers have been urging Byrd privately to run for presi dent, but Rockwell wasn't sup posed to say anything about it. . . . Congressman Case of South Dakota has been paying for rain making experiments out of his Mesa estates and also owns 40 per cent of the Victor Valley project. He, being a close friend of Roosevelt's, placed the in surance with the firm of Roo sevelt and Sergeant, which in turn acted as the broker in placing the Insurance on all 650 homes with various companies, a a JOHNSON'S EXIT Secretary of Defense Johnson took the news of his dismissal as if he had been struck by lightning. On the morning he was fired, he was cheerfully planning speeches for the Amer ican Bar association, American Federation of Labor and Ameri can Legion. On the morning after he was fired, he put in a routine ap pearance at his staff conference. General McNarney opened the meeting by saying how shocked they all were at the new devel opment. But Johnson held up his hand and mumbled: "No no. Not now." Tears welled up in his eyes, and McNarney sat down. Assistant Secretary of De fense McNeil also tried to say something appropriate. But again Johnson held up his hand. So everyone present stood up, announced there was nothing to report, and solemnly filed out of the room. a a a UNDER THE DOME After Secretary Chapman fin- year lor the first time since 1745 isnea wiping up me senaie iioor with Senator Schoeppel of Kan sas, the Interior secretary at- Western G e r many. Indeed, the Big Three say bluntly that any attack on Berlin or West e r n Germany will be regard ed as an attack on them as oc cupying powers. This means. o far as pres- ., Klekd, ent Indications go, that the old Reich will re- as presidential timber last week in Pittsburgh. Representatives nf fhtt Votlnnal T.v and National Association of "l" divided upon its present Germany building up a war po- lines indefinitely. tential which would permit of further aggression. It is a pro tection for the unarmed and at present defenseless country. As would be expected, the Big Russia's eastern zone of 46. 000 square miles, with its popu lation of 17,300,000. will con tinue as a communized satellite Three agreed that the recreation own pocket Due to the heavy of Moscow. The western zone of a German army would be expense, he now wants to shift 98'300 square miles, with a pop- against the best interests of Eu the cost to congress ulatlon of 49,700,000 will func- rope and of Germany herself. (Copnimt mm tion separately under Its Bonn Throughout a long discussion of this problem France remained firm in a refusal to agree to such rearmament of a Germany which three times within 100 years had attacked her. However, Germany isn't to be left militarily impotent for de fence purposes. She is to be al lowed to create mobile police formations, and such forces can be very effective. Vanity Brings Capture Cincinnati, Sept. 21 WV-Maybe Edgar Fred Whlteaker, 35, shouldn't have stopped yesterday to look at his own picture. The picture was posted in the Federal building here and it carried the notation that Whlteaker was wanted for jail breaking. FBI agents, who had bad the man under sur veillance for some time, were there too, so they took him Into custody. A. E. Ostholhoff, agent in charge of the FBI here, aaid Whlteaker was charged with robbery of several supermarkets In Dallas, Tex., and Indiana. Scotland's Clans to Have First Reunion Since 1745 By ROBERT MUSEL (Unltsd Prats etaft Correspondent) London, Sept. 21 (U.B Festival of Britain officials stepped right in today where angels have feared to tread for centuries. The Scotland's clans have a nice, friendly get-together next This would seem to be a shrewd move on the part of the Big Three. It not only strength ens the general defenses of Western Europe, but it may be expected to give a fillip to the morale of the Germans. They are a proud folk who would re sent bitterly being utterly de pendent on their conquerors for protection. This same point about morale also applies to the allied deci sion that Western Germany shall be allowed to handle their own foreign relations, which thus far have been dealt wlthiby the oc cupying powers. tended a cabinet meeting. As he entered the room. President Jf J"h. Pjnkr'e na,dl Truman said: "Here comes Joe only its worse' Much. wo"" Louis. Sit down, Champ This is something like asking the Hatfield, and the McCoys to give up feudin' and fightln' in favor of a Sunday social, congratulate the organizers for allied decisions is to foster the their courage. rebuilding of the German eco- One of the most important What is going to happen." he nomy and integrate it with that Some of the clans have hated asked, "when Clan Chattan of Western Europe. This means, ( Republican leaders had planned ,ne "S"1 01 eacn olners tartans in wan unm jire tne sons among otner tmngs, tnai proouc to olek out everv member of the ,or centuries. There are family of Macian of Glencoe (scene of tion in the great Ruhr steel cen- Triimnn cabinet one hv one and massatra uurucu as ucco as - ....u. ...t 10 wsw ier WUI oe speeaea up XO DOlSier MtacT"hem I ? the senate But .hist.' nd 'T"h..M" ?,h.ai'!1" ocoiusn nn?murn;s arc iung. vmr uusc ui Argyu, cmei The agreement with Germany It still isn't quite safe to men- of the Campbells). takes the place of the peace tion the North Inch of Perth in ' treaty which should and could, some baronial strongholds in How many extra police will k.. u, .inH inns if drafted fnfn F.rinhiii.-1." . - " . tne western powers ana Russia n.. . , n . ft .... ncBicru injwcr aim nussia ,B2Lh S0??tg? .MalS?,lm could have come te terms. Even now the Big Three foreign mln- attack them In the senate. But Senator Schoeppel's smear of Secretary of the Interior Chap man has backfired so badlv that the campaign will be abandoned. the highlands and that elan be drafted into Edinburgh? . . . Though President Truman ltrueale took nlace in 1396. But Lt. Col. Geora-e Mali told the press lt is "customary" a a a nf Potalloch, chief of the Clan f tha eauirat arlata t Iha Brmv Ar'mM..rw ! T sr n navy and air force to nand in But the fe.tW.1 of Britain- Vhairman of the councU of hlve liU'e P0' n their resignation, when the sec iZlt?' clan societies, believe that more "rlj sgreement with Moscow retary of defense leaves, these ... . ,n ... ,nan half the 100 clans will ac three have agreed to stick to- .... wmlM H" .... ln. un; Pt Humeri iru nut c'H'i requested . . . uonaia uawson, .,.,,. decided they hid lound an aide to President Truman Is wnat tney wanted in their plan " ""P"" re4cr fled .v , S , being considered as head of the for , netlt ,thering of the IS id' ,nd are the Mac- IlT1 irn?,ytfor Europe. New York Stock Exchange . . . cun, ' ' ' Kinnons, the MacGregors, the The British and French defense About two months ago, Truman Th' . h-.n.. .... M,cL'an- MacLeods and Mac ministers are expected to rush called ex-Undersecretary of . JheHng of the cUns 1 any J5", sff J" I many " ? Ameic, ,hl" weelt ,or con- St.l. Boh Lovett to th. White IfT f ' 'It.?', .Fl M clan "'' there." ferences. . . . . lDlKlltr!B unr, llltt. IS aiuvv umwa of the United Kingdom. The of- noHtv mpk .1 Donald Dawson, didH, thfv nld lound nority. MacPherson said. on a treaty. Coincident with this German The opposition is ln the ml- development comes Indication mai tne Big inree are going to 1745. The organizers believe thousands of Scotsmen ln the U.S. and Canada would wel come the chance to come here and meet the chiefs of their clans. "Theatrical nonsense," snort. ed Sir Donald Cameron of Lo- House and asked him to be come Acheson's deputy to the Atlantic Union conference. Lovett literally wept. His doc tor had forbade him to take a Job for another year. a a a SEATING RED CHINA British Foreign Minister Bev in has been nursing a Plan to chie, when h(J nMird tbou, get communist China admitted He vov(d his clan would to the United Nations through have nothlng to do with the en action by the general assembly, terprise. The war crv of the Bevin has worked out his Camerons of Lochiel is " Sons of strategy with India's Premier the hounds, come here and get Pandit Nehru. Both are con- flesh." That gives you an idea, vlnced that, although Russia has a a a been agitating for the Chinese Sir Michael Bruce of Clan communists to be admitted to Bruce suggested someone should Tipsy Bees Make Attack London, Sept 21 (AW Thousands of bees carried out low level atUcks on targets customs men, passengers and just bystanders at London airport yesterday. But there were no casualties. The bees were drunk. They had gathered for ent on the bouse when a passenger dropped a bottle of cognac. Bad Guys Always Get Caught Schenectady. N. T., Sept. 21 iP Threes youngsters who took 2.0e movie tickets from a theater office admit today that those "westerns" are dead right about eae thing. The bad gays always get eanght," me ef the beys said after detectives had apprehended them. The three, ranging In age from II te 12, got eff with a lecture.
