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' 4 Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, August 21, 1951
MUTINY AT THE PENITENTIARY
The Capital Journal has received the following letter
from Oswald West, former democratic governor of Oregon
1911-1915, who during his regime inaugurated many con
structive reforms in state government. He won national
reputation for his practical amelioration of the lot of
convicts in the state penitentiary for which he received
unstinted partisan abuse and legislative obstruction. Like
most governors he became fed up with the senseless inter
ference of sentimental do-gooders. He is probably as well
informed and most experienced in handling convicts of
any governor we ever had.
To the Editor:
I am glad to note that my friend and fellow democrat
Les ("Pinky") Josslyn, chairman of our democratic state
central committee, has published his views as to Oregon
state prison management. I was fearful that he would
let Senator Doug Yeater, and his fellow prison committee
republicans, beat him to the punch.
However, I would go a step farther than that proposed
by "Pinky." I would have our state central committee
take over the control and management of the institution.
This could be justified by reason of the fact that a large
majority of the past voting inmates were registered as
democrats, and might feel that they were right in revolt
ing against republican rule.
As a last resort I would suggest that those sweet faced
Wilson boys (kidnappers, rapists and murderers), now in
jail at Vancouver, Wash., be borrowed by our "do-gooders"
and made plenipotentiaries to induce George Alexander's
boys to eat their spinach and go back to work other
wise they will be entitled to unemployment insurance pay
thus increasing the state's deficit.
Portland, August 20. OSWALD WEST.
The only issue at stake in the present prison mutiny
is whether the state through its board of control and
warden is to manage the penitentiary or to turn control
over to the convicts as a country club, abolish discipline
among lawbreakers and invite another series of bloody
escape attempts and armed rioting chaos.
All the present troubles date from interference by a
legislative committee, ignorant on the subject, and its
coddling of prisoners, fanning the latent resentment of
the ruthless lawbreakers. Though these legislators'
authority expired with adjournment and they are not an
interim group, they have butted in again to fan the flames
of discord.
Warden Alexander is right let the convicts work or
tarve.
FINDING OUT FOR HIMSELF
Governor Dewey had a good idea in going over to the
Orient to see for himself what is happening over there.
He landed in Portland yesterday after more than a month
and one-half visiting key points in the Far East. His survey
trip covered about 82,000 miles.
The real reason for his. making such a trip is still
uncertain. It really matters little. Whether he was trying
to get background for some hoped-for future political job
has little bearing on the matter.
The importance of the trip was this: Dewey, two-time
nominee of the publican party for president, decided not
to take someone else's word for what was happening in
the Orient where two wars affecting the United States
have started in the past 10 years. He went to check on
conditions himself.
Although he doesn't claim to be an expert because of
his swing of the Far East, he is certain to have a better
grasp of affairs in the other half of the world. And that
personal knowledge will help him and that section of his
party he still leads offset the isolationist wing headed
by Senator Taft. Dewey has come out strongly for Eisen
hower in '52.
Dewey has been one of those republicans who feels that
the United States must have a foreign policy backed by
both major political parties. That was the idea, too, of
the late Senator Vandenburg. Vandenburg believed that
differences over foreign policy should be settled within
the country. Then the resulting policy would be backed
unitedly overseas. The Truman administration of recent
years lias ignored the republican party in congress most
of the time in drafting new moves in foreign policy. Lack
of real support has too often resulted.
Dewey, however, will now be in a position to back his
views with facts. For instance, he found through personal
experience that the policy toward Chiang Kai-Shek will
prove disastrous to the United States if it continues to
be followed. He doesn't have to take the word of some
administration man or one of the rabid republican sup
porters of Chiang.
And so Dewey will be able to offer constructive leader
ship toward returning to a bi-partisan foreign policy which
is essential to the nation's number-one position in the
world. This Blonc will make his trip worthwhile.
One Driving Tag in 40 Years
Van Nu.va. Calif., Aug. II ( "One violation In 40 years of
driving la something of a record."
That's what the Judge told Hans Brekke, $5, yesterday upon
handing him a one-day suspended sentence for turning against
a red light.
Brekke was found driving with a 11-year-old license, entitling
him to operate only a Model-T Ford, when he committed the
lone error on June 24.
"Got the license fixed for my new (1029) Model-T," re
narked Brekke. "Now I'm set for another 40 years."
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
A 28-Hour Work-Day Doesn't
Leave Time to Write Mother
(Editor's note: Drew Pearson ia again on a tour of Europe, -studying
conditions there. His column today takes the form
of a letter written from Germany to his wife about her son.)
By DREW PEARSON
Munich, Germany.
Dear L. W.:
Driving up toward the Czech border the other night, about
dusk, I noticed a big van lumbering along with a little car
behind It. The van looked like it was lost from our convoy and
we stopped it to inquire.
BY CARL ANDERSON
Henry
Drtw Fairies
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
It Takes a Real Texas Gal
To Grapple with a Stinker
By HAL BOYLE
New York, OP) A brunette girl smells better and worse than
a blonde.
And a red-haired girl. Wel-1-1-1-1 she smells better and worse
than either a blonde or a brunette.
Naturally you fellows already know this.
I didn t until
I met Miss Bar
bara Allen, the
first real pro
fessional odor
consultant who
ever came into
my life.
Her name
may sound like
a sad and fam
ous old British i
ballad, but this '
Barbara Allen
is a strapping five-foot-eight-
Ml BoTlt
better sense of smell than men,
but even women are far behind
insects. And fish smell best of
all. Better than a hound dog.
"A brunette girl will have a
more acute sense of smell and
more body odor than a blonde,"
she continued. "And a red-head
has more of both than either
of them. It's a matter of glands
and skin pigments."
Miss Allen says America
spends $200,000,000 a year on
In the litUe
car behind was
your son. He
was pushing the
driver of that
big van like a
terrier biting
the heels of a
recal c 1 1 r a n t
bull because
that van con
tained the most
important part
of our "Winds
of Freedom" operation name
ly, the messages we were send
ing that night to the people of
Czechoslovakia.
I left the car full of Vip's
where I was riding and joined
your son, not only because I
enjoy his company but to see
what is was all about. What
happened was that the friend
ship messages to the Czech peo
ple had been late in arriving
in Munich from Cincinnati and
we had to get the messages
printed in Germany. The latter
also were too late to join the
main truck convoy which had
left Munich at noon so Tyler
was commissioned to remain be
hind to see that the most im
portant part of our operation
got to the border on time.
I am writing you because I
know he hasn't fulfilled his
promise to write you every
day but I think, when you read
this, you'll understand why.
The winds of freedom, inci
dentally, shift back and forth
posed to be the military master
race, seem to me completely
pacifist. German youngsters are
just as unenthusiastic about
raising an army as your son and
other American youngsters are
about the draft. Sometimes I
think it's chiefly the old dodoes
who are complacent about the
prospect of war. However, I'm
convinced that Moscow wants to
wait a considerable time before
it plunges the world into war.
Its satellite peoples are too rest
less and would turn against the
Kremlin in case of war. That's
why I think this balloon deal,
coming at this particular time,
may help. It's only a drop In
the bucket, of course, and lots
of people will pooh-pooh it but
you have to make a start some
way or other in attempts at
penetrating the Iron Curtain,
so we've taken the first step.
Anyway, I drove back to
Munich at 3 a.m., leaving your
son up on the border. They re
sumed launching the balloons at
4 a.m. and continued until 6
but didn't get back to Munich
with the trucks until noon,
making a 28-hour day from
8 a.m. till 12 noon the next
day. ;
The winds weren's quite right
the day following, however, and
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SANCTITY OF TREATIES
Next Crisis in Middle-East z
May Erupt Any Time in Egyp
By HOMER JENKS i
(Unltad Prux Stiff CorrupondenU ?r
The next crisis in the Middle-East may erupt in Egypt ai
day now. .
Like Iran, Egypt is unhappy over an agreement she signi
with the British and has announced she Intends to declare-
null and void. , ,
But unlike Iran, Egypt made years. ti
her agreement with the British Its principal provisions are;:
i I ...:,U a nL 1 Britain ehall etotinn mi
tgn0ilh1t2WhpSi8.1LtHhI?U)Kh vate oil company, albeit largely tary forces on Egyptian territo,
1 " L".g -V e" 1 ?;nved at th! owned by the British govern- in the vicinity of the Suez Can
ment.
The Anglo - Egyptian dispute
deals with the sanctity of a
treaty entered into by two sov-
border at 2 a.m. they were at
it again, continuing until 6 a.m.
They planned to lay over until
noon, let the men sleep on the
roadside, and then unloose an
inch blonde Texas girl who nose inV,ustrial an'd home deodorants, ?long hf border a,nd neither other barrage which would hit erein governments.
her business.
"The nose is a built-in radar,"
she said in a tall accent, redol
ent of Palestine, Tex. "Our
sense of smell is 10,000 times
more sensitive than our sense of
taste. But few people today
including $60,000,000 on body
deodorants. But she still thinks
housewives are remiss because
they don't plan specific odors
as well as specific colors for
each room.
'It would make life more rest-
know how important odors are fu, she said inting out that
and how they change our some hospitaIs now are using
lives. ... scented sheets to improve the
morale of patients.
"And in factories pleasant
.1 U n ........
theory of smells while working . ..... . .
at '.,!. .,,!- working efficiency in the same
way that music is now em-
Miss Allen, now 23, got in
terested at the age of 14 in the
at a cosmetics counter.
"I like to know what I am
, wiittt a an, . ,
doing," she said. "I asked about v : jj.,j ...tv,i
odors and the people who ought . She has deodorized everything
trllTj jn't TL;J .h!t from miniature golf course to
to know didn t know about three goa(s ,n her rescarchcs.
So 'she studied odors for years ?'' hfPf' V)
-on her own. The books didn't f a " J& I
give her all the answers she j U5ed in th form of tablets
to JrZXd0nr,M5,m" which are wa"owed and de-
t to ,e?tcr ih,u odor f 16 ? odorize from the inside out, un-
"But I found there wasn't any ,ik standard cream DreDara.
odor field," she said. "So I be- i d ",tmorfP"P "J
. j ,,, .,,f tions which are rubbed on and
n t m? J tT? ,0 deodorize from the out-
person to make a career as an ;j. .
j I. ,, side in,
odor consultant.
Miss Allen sighed, and a
gentle lilac fragrance from her A 10 ?lve. tne Peeu the acid
own fair form besmote the air. est ?he 18 looking for a full-
A nearby copy boy immediately Junctioning skunk,
began to quiver at the nostrils. 1 believe that 30 minutes
after I give him the tablets the
"Different odors have differ- skunk will be completely de-
ent effects," Miss Allen said, odorized," she estimated,
dreamy as the annual report Who will hold the skunk
of the U. S. Steel Corporation, when she finds him?
"Most people are unaware of "I guess I'll have to," said
them. I prefer lilac because it Miss Allen. "1 held the goats."
is soothing to the nerves. Lav- Can anybody who knows any
ender is used to attract and trap thing about an obstreperous
lions and tigers. Magnolia has skunk figure what he'll be doing
been found successful in stim- in the half hour before the tab
ulating the appetites of chil- lets take effect?
dren." This I gotta see. From a dist-
She said that women have a ance.
Police Chief Was Too Absorbed
Rome, Aug. 21 UP Visiting French police chief Georges
Mongredian snid he became so interested in the pictures of
bathing beauties in a magazine belonging to a man beside
him on a street car that his pocket was picked of $80 while
he stared.
LOWERED SIGHTS?
he nor I knew exactly where to
join the other trucks. But he had
instructions to meet a lookout
in front of the post office in
Weiden, a little town 10 miles
from the border. The lookout
directed us 10 miles in another
direction, where we sighted our
convoy and where your son fi
nally delivered the 2,000,000
messages to the Czech people
on time.
The trucks were parked on
a narrow road on the Bavarian
hillside almost on a straight line
toward Pilsen and Prague, the
two largest cities of Czechoslovakia.
Prague about 4 p.m., just
the people were starting home
from work. Suez Canal as a British corn-
Well, that's why your son monwealth lifeline, the future of
to insure its defense until do
countries agree that the Egjr
tian army alone is capable
insuring "the liberty and entl
security of navigation of :tl
canal."
2. Britain and Effvnt ihs
At stake is the security of the continue to share in the admli
lstration of the Sudan. '"
hasn't written and why I
trying to report for him.
I am very lonesome and anx
ious to get home. It's rained a
lot here and I hope you've had
some of it at home. When I left
In 1946, Egypt took advantai
of the clause permitting her '
ask for revision of the treat.
She demanded the withdraw;
of British forces from Egypt as
Midstream Fisherman
Arranging a convoy is a com
plicated operation, somewhat
like loading a circus train and
it reminded me of my old tent
wrecking days. Electric genera
tors are at one end of the con
voy, though far enough away
so that no sparks can reach the
hydrogen tanks used to fill the
balloons, these are filled Inside
the truck and launched from its
rear end. Next comes four side
gate trucks for rubber balloons.
The latter are so big they can't
be filled inside the trucks, so
the hydrogen tanks are laid side
ways with a hose extendeng to
the balloon-launching tables on OPEN FORUM
ine siae oi me roaa.
Tyler operated the valve on
the hydrogen tank, supervising
a crew of three Germans. The
balloon is inflated with hydro
gen until it touches two in
verted table legs about four
feet apart. When is reaches this
diameter, it Is tied at the bottom
and sent on its way across the
Iron Curtain. I autographed one
the biggest allied military base
in the middle-east, and the polit
ical future of the Sudan a
countrv more than four times
the size of France.
Britain and Egypt signed the
thp nnnpxatinn nf the Kiirinn..
the pastures were just about treaty in London Aug. 26, 1936. "The presence of foreig
burned up. See you soon. ! It was to remain in effect for at forces on our son jn peacetinv
DREW last 20 years- "'though- " C0U'J even if stationed in distant are
(copjrijht mi) be reopened for revision after 10 is stiU woundjng to national dlj
nity . . .," the Egyptian note salt
Negotiations opened in Lon
don soon afterward and dragMt
on for months. The British Jpe
fused to withdraw altoge'tbe
from the Suez Canal zone . Oi
grounds that Egypt was no
strong enough to defend -h
canal zone in these uncertati
times. -,i
an
Gunman with Flare for Color
Baltimore, Aug. 21 W) A red-haired gunman with a flare
for color held up a haberdashery and escaped with nine pas
tel shirts and about $60 in cash.
The shopkeeper, Harry Farbman, told police the man en
tered the store to look at the shirts and some slacks. He wore
a pink shirt, yellow belt and gray pants.
After behaving very politely, the gunman suddenly drew
a gun, locked Farbman in a back room and made off with the
contents of the cash register and the brightly-colored shirts.
Veredale, "Wash., Aug. 21 U.R) M. L. Willey, found shore
fishing along the Spokane river poor, so he waded out in
the shallow stream to a concrete bridge pier.
Then engineers opened the power company locks IS miles
upstream. Firemen rescued the stranded angler with a rope.
State Young GOP Disowns McCarthy
To the Editor The republican party can offer to the people
of the United States the same sort of forward-looking, liberal,
intelligent, efficient administration it has given Oregon for so
many years.
The nation desperately needs an honest, courageous, statesman
like leadership to replace the
rnrplpsa . and conscience- Red-hunter from Wisconsin
of these balloons for oottwaid less crew tnat ls letting our Ship
As for the Sudan, they said, i
was up to the Sudanese them
selves to decide whether th
country should continue unde.
joint Anglo-Egyptian contr.pl
should become part of Egypt, o;
should be granted independence
No agreement could be readi
ed, and London and Cairo an
nounced a breakdown In Mat
talks in January, 1947. Then
have been spasmodic attempt
since to find a basis for a new
agreement, but all failed.
Egypt took things into its c
hands last November. Premlei
Mustafa Nahas Pasha, who had
signed the treaty 14 years earllef,
demanded in the Egyptian parlie
ment that Britain get out of bdth
the canal zone and the Sucuut
immediately. s'w
He threatened to cancel imsne-t
diately and unilaterally the 1886
He has already violated the treaty' Jtt)'
Alert - But Frank - Sentry
At the Front, Korea, Aug. 21 (UTjThe sentry was guard
ing the quarters of MaJ. Gen. Robert H. Soule, commander
of the V. S. 3rd division.
When United Prena War Correspondent Frank H. Bar
tholomew approached, the sentry demanded the password.
Bartholomew said he was a correspondent and didn't know
the password.
"Neither do I," retorted the sentry. "Pass on."
Modern Toddlers Want None
Of This Kiddy Stuff Now
By ELIZABETH TOOMEY 1
(Unttrd PreM Staff CorfMpondrntl
New York, Aug. 21 (US' Two-year-olds are regarded with the
greatest respect in the kiddy record business.
So are fictional characters like Frosty, the Snowman.
"Kids are getting smarter every generation," explained Henry
Lapidus, president of Peter Pan Records. "Now by tne time
they're past five they won't hold
still for kiddy records. They'd looked worried. 'Don't use the
rather be watching television, word jazzed up for this, It's a
We lower our age sights all the bad word. You can say we mod
time. Now 80 per cent of our ernized the nursery rhymes to
records are for kids two to five." satisfy the sophisticated tastes
And even the toddlers are no of today's kids."
pushovers for a simple fairy tale Lapidus rummaged in a draw
coming from a plastic disc. They er brought out a 33-year-old
like a good brisk musical back- record of "Tom, Tom the Piper's
ground and a top artist doing the Son," and put on a record-player
singing. In the corner of his office.
"You want me to prove it?" "Listen to this ... no kid
Lapidus said somewhat belliger- would stand for it today. That
entlv. shuffling a stack of new voice is Insulting," he exclaimed
kiddy records which littered his excitedly as a condescending
desk. "Just take a kid in a roc- ma voice with a slight British
ord shop and turn him loose. n8 U nursery rhyme to
He ll buy a Spike Jones record simple piano accompaniment,
that's Jazzed up with plenty of "Now the kids demand a live
banging, ly soloist, a background trio or
"We've taken the old nursery chorus, plenty of sound effects,
rhymes and . . . uh . . ." The 6' and a good Jazzy . . . er, modern
S" business man hesitated and . . . beat."
and Stalin. c-,a Aritt iHlv ..rith nn Hirpr- Ampriran traHitinn tt fair nlav
Ul amic u, i. i-'j . - ..... ......... v. .... J .
The long line of trucks parked tion save that of the prevailing and the rules of simple honesty Foreign Minister Mohamnien'
alongside a Bavarian wheat wind. and Integrity. Most of us repub- Salah Ed-Din followed this 'Uf'
stiihhlpfiplri innHp n fasrinaf inff. TV. n.fo ie ,pll. pnAnvueii with limn ar Hptprminprt that hp nnlv two weeks 80 bV tellfAB-
eerie spectacle in the night men eminently qualified to serve shall not be allowed to destroy the Egyptian parliament v ml
the gutteral German voices, the the people. I am certain that the our party. &gypi win aorogaie me irra.j
swish-swish of the flowing hy- people will recognize that it is The junior senator from Wis- before the end of the year, sit
drogen, and the steady silent iong past "time for a change" consin comes to Portland as guest Britain will not take Egypt
launching of the big bags as wheu they go to the polls next of the Multnomah chapter of the denunciation of the treaty wltl
they slipped off into the dark- year. Oregon Republican Clubs. Those out a uht- Us first recourse
ness. sppms imnnrtant. thoueh. who believe In the honorable most certainly will be to
The bovs were getting off that m.nv rpnublican voices be heritage of the republican par- wor.m, ??u". ana P?.ss LJi,
their missives to Prague pretty raised just now to remind Oreg- ty are confident that he will not
regularly about 1.300. all told onians that the junior senator remain long either in Portland
when it started to drizzle. We from Wisconsin, who will be in or in the United States senate,
kept going for a while, since Portland this week-end, does not FREEMAN HOLMER
ram doesn t impeae tne Danoons. represent the GOP. He repre- Young Republican Fed. of Ore.
They rise above the clouds in sents neither the charitable hu-
no time, but it does get the men manity of Abraham Lincoln, the
wet. So, at 2 a.m. we finally fearlessness of Teddy Roosvelt,
laid off : everyone was pretty nor the integrity of Herbert Hoo
well soaked. Ver. He does not represent the
I sat in the car for a while, high principles that have so long
waiting for the rain to stop but guided the party. He speaks only
when it didn't I used the ex- for himself,
cuse that I had to get to the Safely sheltered from lawsuit
cable office, and at 3 a.m. by the walls of the Senate cham
seaded back for Munich. I'm ber, he has slandered some of
getting old, I guess, and can't America's finest public servants,
take it. Over and over he has been chal-
longed to repeat his accusations
where he would have to accept
Before I left, however. 1 went responsibility for their utterance.
down the line of murky trucks. So far he has shamelessly failed
1990 South High, Salem.
United Nations security courici
Meantime, British troopsl
the canal zone probably wllTs
tight. And Egypt is believed i
have neither the strength W
the will to, challenge them ttf
battle. "
Little Mike'May Get Home
trying to find your son. I fi
nally located him sitting Inside
a truck, listening to German
veterans and ex-prisoners swap
ping war experiences with
American G.I. students men
to meet the challenge.
He has succeeded in achieving
notoriety for himself and has ir
reparably damaged the reputa
tions of blameless American cit
izens. He has, single-handed,
who had once been fighting each lowe;ed (stm f'urlr,er) the cal-
other but who now worked to
ibre of personnel who can be re-
get her launching friendship ,.uited , ffovernment .ervic..
messages to another people Ablt imellectually-honest citiz-
whom they hoped they wouldn t en, do not wiUingiy gel within
have to fight. range of the slander-shotgun
Germans, incidentally, (up- wielded by the trigger-happy
Washington, Aug. 21 Little Mike, a Japanese-American
occupation orphan, may aoon have a family and a home lit
the United States thanks to congress.
The house of representatives has passed a bill which
would let three-year-old Mike become the foster son of TJi S:
army Sgt. Jack R. Terry and his wife, Carolyn, of Roanoke,.
Now it's np to the senate and the president. '
Mike was born In Japan, the son of an American occupation
soldier and a Japanese girl and was placed In an orphanage)
In Japan.
The Terrys found Mike at the orphanage In 1949. They
wrote Rep. Burton (D., Va.), who sponsored a bill for Mike'a
adoption. v ,
Honeymoon Rather Costly I
Danville, Ca., Aug. 11 W -Any extension of his honey
moon Is apt to prove costly to Louis Leonard Prultt, of
Danville.
Serving a 10-day sentence on a lareeny charge, Praia
was let out of Danville Jail Thursday after 13 days of hL
term to get married. rii
Bnt corporation court Judge A. M. Aiken took no chance'
He placed Prnltt nnder $3,000 bond to return to iiU a
10 a. m. Monday to finish ont his sentence. , '
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