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4 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, May 21, 1952
BY BECK
Recollections
OUR HIGHER EDUCATION
The progress of higher education in our universities
and colleges is being reflected in the numerous "panty
and brae" raids being conducted by men students against
women's dormitories and sorority houses. The raids
started in great eastern institutions in the east, spread
across the middle west and have finally reached the
Pacific coast.
Just why mobs of male students would want to seize
women's unmentionables as souvenirs is hard to compre
hend unless it is a form of latent sexual perversion. Per
haps unaccountable "mass psychology" accounts for the
craze.
Such staid institutions as Columbia university helped
start the raids by mob attacks on Barnard college and
others rapidly followed the same campus pattern. Cam
pus guards, police and the co-eds themselves have usually
repulsed the raiders, sometimes not until tear gas was
used and many arrests made. In some the raiders secured
a few "souvenirs."
Monday "panty raides" swept 11 college campuses in
the midwest. At Columbia, Mo., scene of a triple lingerie
riot, a company of national guardsmen was called out
when local police found themselves unable to cope with
the students.
"Panty raid fever" swept the Big Ten schools of North
western Wisconsin and Minnesota, and at the Universi
ties of Vermont, Connecticut, Missouri, Delaware, Ala
bama and Stephens and Christian colleges.
At the same time a similar raid was staged at the
Oregon State college at Corvallis, where co-eds joined
police in thwarting a raid by 250 men. Less than a dozen
of the students, bent on lingerie larceny, got inside the
three sorority houses which were the targets of the raid.
Those who did gain entry got the bum's rush from the co
eds before they could claim any trophies.
Tuesday night at the University of Washington, Seattle,
an estimated 1,000 students smashed windows and did
other damage in panty raids in a women's residence hall
and six sorority houses. At Washington State, Pull
man, 250 men invaded five women's living quarters.
State patrolmen and police in 20 squad cars were called
In to help disperse the crowd, with the aid of co-eds.
A few years ago a college craze started from some
student gulping down a raw or live fish and spread like
wildfire throughout the country. This was not so bad
for the students only punished themselves and did not
steal nor attack girls or destroy property. Only the poor
fish suffered. The students merely exercised their right
to make fools of themselves by penalizing themselves.
In every city there are suspected perverts who habitu
ally rob clotheslines of women's underwear. But it comes
as a shock to find so many of this tribe in our higher edu
cational institutions.
And this at a time when they are striving for college
degrees, none of which so far include "batchelors or
masters of brae and panties." Perhaps this will come in
time.
A 1952 LOOK AT THE DAMS?
For some five years groups from all over the Willam
ette valley have gone each June or July on a sight-seeing
trip. They have looked over the sites for future dams or
dams under construction in the valley and on each trip
have checked on the progress made on dams since the
previous visit the year before.
This year, however, there will be no regular Willam
ette Basin commission-Army engineer sponsored trip.
But that doesn't mean there hasn't been any progress
made on the projects which are designed to control floods
in the valley, to create more power, and to improve navi
gation on the river.
Changes in the upper North Santiam canyon have been
gradual. It was only about four years ago that the
access road was on the old railroad roadbed and the old
road into Detroit left something to be desired. Then the
new highway along the canyon bank took shape and so
did Detroit dam.
In the North Santiam river, Detroit dam will take its
full form in concrete in another month or so. Big Cliff
dam downstream a little is also coming along fine. And
the new fishery at Marion Forks is well established now.
The communities in this area could assume the respon
sibility of conducting a tour of the projects in these parts
this year and thus carry on where the Willamette Basin
commission has left off.
Kesidents of the valley communities will benefit from
the projects. So it is logical that those residents should
pet together, arrange their own plans for a tour of the
dams in the North Santiam canyon in June or July and
take another look at the expanding projects. The Corps
of Engineers would undoubtedly be very happy to explain
features of the dams and the potential that will be created
by them when the projects are finished in all details in
about another year.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
House Group Critical of Evils
Of Baseball; Shuns Real Action
BY CARL ANDERSON
Hen
f IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS
l BEFORE SCHOOLS HAD
to promising
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
By DREW PEARSON
Washington Congressmen highest offers
Manny Cellar's much-heralded rookie players.
investigation of baseball mono- "Despite the tremendous
poly has labored mightly and popular interest in baseball,"
now brought forth a mouse. the report continues, "publicity
After rolling up 1,643 pages itself does not afford a complete
of testimony and exhibits to be guarantee that the game will
released this week, and after always be operated so as to
hearing all sorts of witnesses, serve the maximum public in-
from Ty Cobb to Ford Frick, terest.
and from Pee Wee -Reese of the "While the public has recog-
Brooklyn Dodgers to Ned Garv- nized the need for important
er of the St. Louis Browns, the and affirmative changes such
congressional committee takes as a revision of the major lea-
a firm stand only on about gue basbeall map, which would
three things: have taken place long ago if
1. The Pacific coast should competition were baseball's
not be denied major league only master the men in control
baseball. of the game have either resisted
2. Players who bolt to Mexi- or been unable to make desir
co or an independent league able changes."
should not be blacklisted. However, the Brooklyn con-
3. A monopoly does exist in gressman and his legislators
baseball, but congress is not flatly decide in favor of the
going to legislate against it. club owners by stating: "Pro-
These conclusions are pretty fessional baseball could not
well camouflaged in a mass of operate successfully and profit-high-sounding,
legalistic phra- ably without some form of re-
ses, in which the house judi- serve clause."
Nn Ana iutrtlf AC fl Morn fllfr r ( ciary committee daintily avoids On the other hand, the con
U VIIU JYlUIVGS U ntJlU will OT any legislative action. In brief, gressmen duck the question of
A . . . the committee report spotlights exempting baseball from the
RllC DriVI rYfOnt RolnflVOC 801116 glaring evils in the great antitrust laws. Such exemption
IIITCI LAbCpi lCIUUTC9 American sport, but side-steps has been requested by the club
Bu HAL ROYLr doing anything about them. owners who have viewed with
alarm justice department moves
New York, VP) In making standing woman, and she cried BASEBALL'S NO. 1 EVIL to prosecute footbaU for mo
out your will did you ever con- snappishly: Chairman Celler and his col- nopolizing radio and TV re
sider leaving anythng to a bus "Driver, why do you let any- leagues frankly admit the in- ports of their games,
driver? body on the bus with a pack- justice of the notorious "reserve "If blanket immunity (from
Probably not. lew people age that size? You know its clause," sometimes called base- the antitrust laws) were grant
give a bus driver anything ex- against the law." ball's No. 1 evil. This enables a ed," the Celler committee con
cept a hard time. "Live and let live, lady," said club owner to buy and sell eludes, "all appeals to the courts
Every boy at some time the driver, philosophically. "I players like chattels and binds from a possible abritrary de
wants to be a locomotive engl- wouldn't care if somebody a player to one team until the cision by the rulers of profes
neer. The airplane pilot is one climbed on carrying a basket owner wants to release him for sional baseball would be fore
of the most glamorous men of full of cobras." trading purposes. closed.
the age. All the way you could hear "In tne past the reserve clause "Club owners must act as
But who ever made a hero the weary passengers break out has been employed as a 'war Partners as well as competitors,"
out of a bus driver? Nobody but in chuckles. measure' to fight the develop- the Celler committee concludes
v,i ,.,if hi irMi onri hl rinr ment of competing leagues, . . . Organized baseball has for
old mother. And yet he carries Wo . wt,n!,i r, sometimes at the expense of years occuppied a monopolistic
lnaiviauai piayers, says me pusmuu in uie uuainess ui sen-
ex-and
week, a National Crochet week. that a ballplayer can be barred therefore has constituted sub-
r y
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FIGURING THE '400'
Social Biggies in Washington
Fear Pretty Publisher s 'List'
V
By HARMAN W. NICHOLS
Washington (U.R) One of the George Washington era, says to
best loved, and most feared,
women in Washington is Carolyn
Hagner Shaw.
She is the pretty, slender pub
lisher of the famous little green
suede book called "The Social
Litl of Washington, D. C."
The latest edition of the book
won't come out until early fall.
A lot of the current wheels by
save her life she doesn't know.
"We have a board of gover
nors," she told me. "Five women
and one man. They decide who
will go onto the list and who
will be knocked off. I have noth
ing to do with it."
The board is strictly secret.
Nobody knows the members; no
body ever will, she said.
moVe Deo u We haVe ' National Cran" individual players," says the position in the business of
nortant nYiss ons yea in and berr,y wek' .a National Do Judiciary committee report. ing professional baseball
IVJO " "ali Bird In simple language this means hibitions to the public
year oui, man any uuicr weelc National Crochet wopk - uln-i u- 1 a thvf, v.,. ,tit.
You get on the book list ii
that time will have become small
We have a National Cran- inHiviHiml nlavers" av the position in the business of sell- spokes, but Mrs. Shaw has all
that figured out. She plans to you are "somebody" in Wash-
put out a supplement after the ington, and you stay on if you
eldfltlnn. Tl ...m.!..... , , 1 i
in Innsoortation ..n..w,ial viumcb tnat a Dalipiayer can De Darrea inereiore nas consmuiea sua- tit-ui- ouyyiciiicui wm Denave yourseii ana noia your
a j v. v. . " m . . Why no' t least a National Bus for iife Irom organized Ameri- stantially the only market for be published in February. work right and stand upright al
And he nas ny lar ine nara- Driver day to honor the guy can baseball if he jumps to a the services of highly salaried ... cocktail parties. The final de-
est task. A train rwes i on its who all year long gets us in team in Mexico offering him professional ballplayers." ... . . . . cision is up to the board,
own rau ana swuenmen givtr one piece to wherever we want more monev. It also means that This leaves baseball iust . A" .Mrs- ?naw "as done so
A lnt nf fanrv names hava
t0 So? the richer ban ciub, can controi about where it was except that Jar 's .l sna.out 3uestlonna"-es been rubbed from the list for
Fare enough? the player market by making the Congressman Celler has had a 10 social Diggies. various infractions.
lot of fun bringing famous "er annual iiuie oook carries There was a to-do a few yearl
it a fast, clear track.
An airplane follows a steady
beam throdgh the skies. But a
bus driver threads a devious
path through the most clogged
traffic in history.
Potential death whizzes by
every moment . . . rumbling
trucks . . . careless motorists
... a cabbie trying to beat the
light.
Beauty Was Too Much for Tug
Wilmington, Calif. VP) Old tug No. 10 was a real touch
and harbor-worthy vessel. It had hauled in some pretty
big ships in its day.
Last Monday, however, No. 10, was cast in a new role
towing a floating barge for a style show, with a score of
cutles traipsing the deck as they modeled swim suits, and
bra and panty sets.
This was just too much for old No. 10. After getting back
to its dock it capsized and sank Tuesday.
"Too much pulchritude," said an old salt, pronouncing the
third word very carefully.
And the passengers somehow
still feel more secure than if
they were on a train or a plane.
They have a great blind faith
the bus driver will deliver them
intact to their destination. He
almost always does day after
day after day.
How he does it is one of the
marvels of our times. Who
among us has to Bhow as much
skill while under so many pres
sures? The miracle is that anyone
can be found, who can manage
all at the same time to steer
a lumbering vehicle through a
busy street, make change, hand
dtr Pt" W MARKS START OF NEW HISTORY
dren darting from the side
walks, and explain to a queru
lous lndy why it really isn
his fault If she caught the
wrong bus.
'It's the Woman Who Pays'
London VP) The British legal profession said Wednesday
that tearful old saw "it's the woman who pays" should be
made a part of the divorce law.
The General Council of the British bar declared that a
wronged wife should have the right to cash damages from the
other woman, jnst as a husband collects under present law
from the other man.
The council presented its views in a memorandum to a
Royal commission considering possible changes in the British
divorce statutes.
witnesses to Washington, and ex
cept that the justice department
still has the power to move in
on the club owners.
LIQUOR LOBBYISTS
The liquor lobby is mapping
an all-out assault against high
liquor taxes that will reach in
to every bar and cocktail dis
pensary in the nation. Barmen
will be asked to mix lobbying
with their drinks and appeal to
tipplers the country over to
rally behind the crusade against
"prohibition by taxation."
The liquor industry is also
prepared to spend millions for
newspaper ads and pamphlets
as part of the campaign to rouse
the public against liquor taxes.
Another technique will be to
post price lists, tabulating the
resale price and the taxes sep
arately, to impress customers
with how much of their liquor
bill goes to Uncle Sam.
Despite all this hullabaloo,
most congressmen figure that
the liquor boys can afford to
pay even higher taxes. If they
r ii j r r pay even higher taxes. If thej
t Signing Monday of Peace with sch
West Germans Unprecedented
Pickets Picket Pickets
payer will be called upon to
pay more out of his pocket to
lin Mia rlifforonno
with an mat norsepower un- By pH,L NEWS0M Note Congressman Herman
der his hand the bus driver also tuniied Prcu Forum An.imi Eberharter, Pennslyvania demo
needs a lot of horse sense in when the United States, The Bonn ceremony on Mon- crat, has come to the aid of the
his work. Great Britain, France and the day marks a winning round for liquor lobby by introducing a
For he has more affilictiosis representatives of the West the west. bill that would extend the
than plagued Job. German Bonn government sign Under it. West Germany period in which distillers may
He is under more strain than ,heir peaCe contract Monday, achieves freedom, yet is not hold whisky in bond before
any of his passengers, but if they will dot the "i's" and cross wholly free; and independence, paying the federal excise tax.
they are vexed by a personal the "t's" of a situation unprece- yet i, not wholly independent. Under the present law, the dis-
frritatZ ohim "atVtl"e ea de"ted WrId hiS'ry- " Pa which is not a tillers must pay the tax at the
Lxru Thev rarcfv think of " marI" the beinnin ' 8 peace but the closest that can e"d, ?f eSh ars whether the
hfm as'lJvln a worrv VOyage ot WOrld diPlomacy to be devised in the face of com- has been sold or not.
him as having a worry. an uncharled iand not even munIst aggression. Eberharter's bill would give the
. ' ,, . , imagined seven years ago. u, -lii-j t- . distillers another four years
It is no wonder that several " ... A half million allied troops ..
years ago a new xorn ous . icuinm tuat r
driver, bored with his routine 11 18 tne dlrect result of the fenseless West Germany is not
back-and-forth life, left his hot and cold wars between East gobbled up by the communists
route and drove south for a and West and 8 b'ood'er exam- by force ad certain restricting
little Florida sunshine. ple oI tne same thlng may regulations will make sure that
The surprising thing is that lound ln Korea. she adheres to her agreement
more aren't seized by wander- It is simply part of the move with the west,
lust at the wheel. and counter-move in the strug-
gle between two great, unde-
"People are funny" one bus feated coalitions. That the Besides those two main pro
driver told me Koreans and the Germans found visions, the six-point contract
"Right when you think you themselves in between is un- which has been more than a
are driving nothing but crazy fortunate for them. year in the making also in-
wildcats Christmas comes eludes:
along, and one or two will hand The rf ,eadi to ncxt An .overall staiement of aims
you a small present when they ., ceremony hd lti bc. which ev ntually would mean
the names of 4,000 society folks ag0 when one of the President'!
in the Washington area. Some aidcs Was rubbed out, and also
Will remain and SOme Will be u,hm a nrnmlnont li.mnld waa
dropped in the new edition. cut 0ff the list.
And how do you get into the "I don't know how thos
book? Mrs. Shaw, who can trace things happen," Mrs. Shaw said,
her family tree back to the "You'll have to ask the board."
Neighborliness Didn't Pay Off
New York (U.R) Young Mike Broderick couldn't sit down.
Wednesday because a clever neighbor was afraid of robberjj-
Broderick, 16, saw a light in the window of William'
Buhl's Bayside home Tuesday night and decided to visit
him. In crossing Buhl's lawn Broderick stepped on electrical
contacts that set off an alarm.
Buhl began firing his .22 caliber rifle before the youth
could identify himself and a bullet nicked Broderick as he
retreated. Police said Buhl was not booked and the two
neighbors are still friends.
Wrong Way on Street Was OK
Bloomington, 111. (U.R) Policeman Robert Schaefer stopped
motorist Charles Schultz to give him a ticket Tuesday for
driving the wrong way on a one-way street.
"My car is on fire and I'm heading for the fire station,"
Schultz said.
"Take off," Schaefer said and Schultz drove to the fire
house four blocks away.
OPEN FORUM
Pearson Pledges Vote to Kefauver
ICopyrlght 19521
To the Editor: I wish to take
this opportunity of thanking the
Democratic voters of the state
of Oregon for electing me as
one of the delegates at large for
the convention.
Before the election I did not
commit myself for any candi
date for the nomination for
president of the United States.
The reason I did not do so was
because the Oregon law makes it
manditory to support the chosen
candidate.
I want to assure all of the
Democrats that I will support
Mr. Estes Kefauver until he is
elected, or personally releases
me from my pledge. I will do
everything in my power to see
that the mandate is carried out.
I again wish to thank you for
the vote of confidence which
you gave me. ...
WALTER J. PEARSON
Delegate at Large Demo- .
crat National Convention
. Medford VP) Pickets were picketing the pickets at Kim's
Chinese restaurant outside Medford.
The first group of pickets werv members of the local AKL
Culinary Alliance and Bartenders. They wanted a union
shop. '
Three of Kim's waitresses began Tuesday to picket them.
The waitresses carried signs proclaiming that they were
getting "union scale."
pav their fare. Then you get J" 7i ... ...... ... ...v... completely unified Lrermanyj
to thinking they are people the victorious allies of World an aetJI and intercst5 trea'y
" ,ne v15,or'ous allies 01 w?rla which euarantees a cont nuat on
again.
Experts Missed on This One
Chicago (U.R) Jack Short's good news Is bad news for some
New York art experts.
i Shore, a Chicago art dealer, paid J100 for a painting shunned
by other bidders at a Manhattan auction recently. The paint
ing was Identified Tuesday as an original Lucreila Borgia
worth $150,000.
; Going to Cut His Coffee-Drinking
! Kalamasoo, Mich. (U.R) William Eddlnglon observed his
-103rd birthday Wednesday by promising to cut his coffee
consumption from 40 to 20 cups a day.
Wo- TT HI'IHa1 P.ormnnv Inln . B
r i 11 j-.; . M...UU..J ....w triiDl.hiiEtina nrnmm
i rememoer .nmnor miver foUr parts, one occupied by the . '"V" "". v,-tim. n
who said he was going to quit Russian. and the other three bv .. rest"""" . lo Mimt of
because he had begun to talk f"M ian and l""d naziism; the financial treaty
in his sleep. X-S'lvilv C0VCring diViS'n ' the Gr'
"What did vou say In your .P"."v".'. man defense budget between
sleep'" I asked. 11 was' of course traBlc that allied troops, and the new 12-
"Mv wife says all I do is " new stru8Ble sprang immcdi- division German army; the ar
mumble, 'move to the rear of ,le'y from lhe still-smouldering bitration tribunal to settle fu
tile bus,' please, more room ln "ne ' ,he 0,d- ture German-allied disputes;
back,' " he said, That's all I While the western allies and the Berlin protocol which
say all day. Why should I granted new freedoms ln Asia continues four-power control of
say It all night, too?" and attempted to rebuild west- Berlin but gives the German
em Europe, Russia plotted to administration as much freedom
Some drivers have a fine gift rush into the power vacuum to as possible,
for lifting the spirits of passen- establish herself as a world con- Overall, it is the bravest at
gers. Once I was making the queror. tempt yet at the beginning of
long voyage home on a cramped To establish that power, It a free,' unified Europe a con
bus In which everybody seemed was necessary that Russia have dition achieved partially only
to be in a bad mood. both the manpower and the in- three times before and then by
A small boy came aboard car- dustrial capacity of all Germany force. Charlemagne almost did
rylng a big package. The and not Just the eastern sector it. Then came Napoleon, and
package bumped against which she occupied, finally, Hitler.
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