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4 Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, February 17, 19S3 .
ADLAI FLINGS A FEW MORE PHRASES
AjHof fiAv.anas.n AA1vaaA lift, -ffraf mninr suMrMa mine
the night before the November election at a Jefferson
Jackson dinner In New York Saturday night, evidencing
the same clever gift for words that was so evident during
the campaign! but also the same mental confusion that
caused him to get so many fewer votes than it looked like
he would get early in the campaign.
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victor belongs the toil," and kind when he promised to
support President Eisenhower's "business administra
tion." But Stevenson went on to warn against the danger of
the Ike regime becoming a "a big deal" when he is obvi
ously doing his best to reduce, not increase the magnitude
of the federal bureaucracy that swelled to such vast pro
portions through 20 years of free and easy new dealing.
Then Stevenson offered a wholly unneeded and mis
chievous warning against the United States becoming a
"big bully" to its allies, as if there were any likelihood
of this. Here he provided the Kremlin and those who do
its chores in the western countries with a telling propa
ganda weapon.
The former governor added that "there is always the
tendency to mistake the particular interest for the gen
eral interest," an observation that would have had far
better application to the new deal fair deal in its old age,
find to an administration long and securely in the saddle
than to one whose congressional majorities are so slim.
Adlai Stevenson has a glib tongue and is an agile
phrase maker who is pleasing to listen to. But his latest
effort does not suggest the practical common sense for
the Herculean task upon which Eisenhower has em
barked. He will make the better critic, Ike the better
doer, we believe. ,
WRONG USE OF FLOOD STORAGE DAMS
Flood control in the Willamette valley, so long desired
and now partially realized with Detroit, Fern Ridge, Dor
ena and Cottage Grove dams in operation, is regarded by
some, who expected to be beneficiaries, as a mixed blessing.
flood control authorities are nappy to point out that
Willamette valley flood control dams contained Janu
ary's record rainfall and averted a flood comparable to
the more disastrous in recent years. This was accom
plished by impounding waters of the North Santiam,
Long Tom and tributaries of the Willamette to the south
ward. Following the sucession of heavy rain storms the
impounded waters were gradually released.
The rate of release is what farmers, county courts and
xt 11 9 1 ai nnil . .1 1 i i . . i i
muse nvinjf siong ine VYiimmeti are uiscuruea uoout.
Heretofore floods rushed through the valley, covered the
farm land briefly and then subsided. Such work as could
be accomplished on fields was then delayed but a few
ered with water and inaccessible. Roads in low areas
likewise remain impassable for a longer period of time
and subject to damage by submersion. More particularly
are river banks quickly eroded by a river stage that keeps
the stream running at full contained capacity for a pro
longed period of time.
Perhaps the answer lies in a rapid completion of the
ntire Willamette Basin project thereby enabling flood
control to become entirely effective by a more gradual
release of impounded water.
HAMPERING THE PRESIDENT
Walter Lippman, the syndicated pundit of the New
York Herald-Tribune in a recent article raps the self
appointed spokesmen, politicians and columnists princi
pally for hampering Eisenhower's foreign policies by a
"large cloud of opinion, dope, guessing, inference and attri
bution which envelop them." He continues:
"A great deal of bad feeling Is being generated on both sides
of the Atlantic by men who are discussing not the president's
policies, but what somebody has said they might or ought
to be.
"There Is practice, widely indulged In by politicians and
Journalists, of letting it seem that they are discussing the in
tentions, the purposes, even the plana of the president before
he has disclosed them himself. This la an abuse of freedom of
speech which Interferes seriously with the conduct of foreign
policy."
Even when the disclosure is accurate, Lippman points
out, as to substance, the timing is essential, for a prema
ture disclosure may destroy consumation of the policy,
and when it is inaccurate as it usually is, the confusion
created is enormous. "The effect is to create a popular
expectation that canot be satisfied without undue cost
and risks, and arousing popular discontent." It also de
prives him of the lost power to maneuver, which Ike's
purpose is to recover.
Eisenhower's right is to speak for himself which too
many self-appointed spokesmen are doing their best to
destroy. It is fundamental and essential to the adminis
tration of his office and effort to curb aggression and
establish world peace.
Here's an Understanding Thief
Hollywood, W Police are seeking as nderstandlng thief
With a gin breath.
Mrs. Helen Veneman, IS, aald the man appeared at her
home, put a sprlng-blada knife aialnat her and aald: "I want
something to eat and some money."
She asked him to he qnlet because her four small children
were asleep.
"I understand," he replied. 1 have children."
Lacking cash she wrote him a $20 check. He raided the
refrigerator, took a fifth of gin, cut the phone wires and left.
Editor Tries New Quirk
Hokah, Minn., (V-Editors usually provide "continued"
Hnes to help readers find their way aroond newspapers when
Stories are carried over to other pages.
Herb Wheaton, aothor of the column "My Point of View"
In the weekly Hokah Chief, Is different He starts the ecl
mn en page one. Bnt at the bottom, citing the continuation,
la this terse line. "Hunt for It."
Hardier pursuers of his weekly prose are rewarded, this
week on page three, where the column continuation la head
ed, -Ton found itl"
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Murray Wade's Cartoons Here Again
Appearing as dally feature in the Capital
Journal during the remainder of the state
legislative session will be Murray Wade'a
cartoon sketches of the senators and repre
sentatives and some of the attaches. With the
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
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Y DRi ' PEARSON
Washington Secretary of eign markets and declining farm
Agriculture Benson doesn't Pr,cef . , ,
know it, but the White House la -EN80N.g -MIDDLEMEN"
thinking of firing Jilm if the t MeanwhUe Urmtn
farm crista gets much worse uk on
His hostile attitude toward u f Agrlcultur, Benl ,
?. ?!e are darerousiy man of hih teirlty but out- eenta a pound to 70 cents.
iVZJJJlZJXflwte '- Hia blunt state.
WtsS5 COCACHATTE
$18.70; hops from $17.80 per
cwt. to $16; wheat from $2.22
bushel to $2.12; corn from $1.88
bushel to $1.80; oats from 95
cents a bushel to 84 cents; cotton
from 40 cents a pound to 81
cents, and butterfut from 78
ir.wuu -""""' " bounty." and his description of
appease the farmers. . pr,ce iupporti "disaster in-
One White House aide re- iurance" required courage but
marked privately that Benson were , reversal of President
ia "expendable" and may be Eisenhower's campaign promise
jockeyed out of his present hot tor 100 per cent parity price
seat into a less controversial jod, gunnort. Ike even went further
exception of the. 1851 session, when the
cartoonist was in Impaired health, Murray
Wade baa sketched all Oregon legislative
sessions since 1914. That's 19 regular ses
sions, to say nothing of the special ones. .
perhaps as an ambassador.
' Meanwhile, here are the lat
est clouds on the darkening
farm horizon:
. 1. Farm prices, now at a
postwar low, are expected to
fall another 5 per cent in the
next few months. Yet the cost
than Adlai Stevenson in this
promise.
Farmers claim as much right
to government subsidies as the
big manufacturers who get tax
amortization and 'tariff protec
tion, or the workingmen who re
ceive retirement and welfare
of marketing farm products has benefits, or the big airlines and
gone up. Thus the farmer, who ahipping companies that draw
got 54 cents of the housewife's oumgm suDsiaies.
World's a Bleaker Place With Lee Departed
dollar in 1945-46, now receives
only 45 cents.' ,
2. Farm exports have fallen
off SO per cent in the past year,
leaving the farmer's bins over
loaded and adding pressure to
the downward price trend. The
situation is so bad that senators
are considering an international
food reserve to stabilize the in
ternational market end ' shift
food from surplus to starvation
areas.
8. Farmers are so wrought
up over plunging prices and
Benson's remarks against sup
ports that some farm-state re-
The fanners complain that
Benson has loaded the agricul
ture department with agricultural-middlemen,
not the men
who till the soil but those who
"farm the farmers." Tradition
ally, these middlemen have
fought against price supports in
order to keep farm prices low
and their own profits hrgh.
Benson's top assistants and
advisers are now so predomi
nantly processors and business
men that his fellow republican
and chief congressional critic,
Sen. Milt Young of North Da
kota, remarked to him caustic
ally: "So far -as I know you
By HAL BOYLE
New York WV-The world la kind of newspaperman every first war reporter to discover
a bleaker place today for all who newspaperman sometimes yearns the importance of telling the
knew Clark Lee, a war corre- to be. He put a kind of glamor story of the private at the front
spondent untimely dead at 46. into the drudgery of war report- and getting his name and ad-
And they will talk of him for ing, and no one like him had dress back to the folks at home.
Inn a Inn a time in n-UVian mm rinum th nfka alneai Rich- He hit the beaches of Sicily
and Tokyo, in Manila and Mad- ard Harding Davis. and Anzio and Normandy. He publicans were actually afraid have not appolnte(i ,ny farm
ria, in fans, Honolulu ana uairo. jjui uars wrote nis xarae in wim mc in. m- " "'' j ers.
For Lee had become a legend his own sweat. He was a big, troops into St. Lo, Paris, Manila, speeches. Senate agriculture To appease y0Ung, Benson
even in his relatively brief life- dark-haired handsome fellow, and Tokyo, and had flown in the committee chairman George gent nis new commodity Credit
time. built like Jack Dempsey, and his first B-29 raid on the Japanese Aiken of Vermont is try ing, to corporation chief John H
He died quietly of a heart at- favorite wine was adventure, capital. snusn congressional critics, Is Davis around to pay a good-
tack in his California home. And Few men have ever drunk deep- He made news himself by dis- pleading that the storm will wlll call However Davis New Orleans Lets
I have the unreal feeling of one er of it in so short a time, i covering "Tokyo Rose," the prop- blow over. However, the lid is pr0mptly got off on the wrong r si J- f
of aganaa eroaacasier, ana oy per- bdoui to Diow oir tapitoi Hill. foot bv ioCturine the senator XJU "H"h ru
The plush, new Capitol Hill
club, built ' as a republican
refuge in the shadow of the
capltol building, has stirred up
a storm of pulpit-pounding. The
ministers denounce it as a
"drinking club." . . . The club's
confidential prospectus describes
what it's like Inside. "(The fa
cilities) will Include a spacious
lounge or meeting room, a din
ing room seating about three
hundred people, private dining
rooms, reading rooms, barber
shop and bar cafe," says the
prospectus. "In addition, there
Will be about SO double bed
rooms, some for transients and
some for members who may
wish to rent them by the year.
Furnishings and equipment are
to be the best and the cuisine
and service, while not elaborate,
will be the finest obtainable
with prices as low as possible."
. . . Those getting the worst
roasting from the preachers are
the senators on the club's board
of governors Homer Ferguso
of Michigan, Everett Dlrksen of
Illinois, Frank Carlson of Kan
sas and Hugh Butler of Nebras
ka . . . The proprietors are now
trying to raise $400,000 to build
a republican national headquar
ters next to the club . . . Each
state has been assigned a quota
to raise, will be rewarded by
having its shield on the corner
stone. (CoprrUht, IMS)
who steDS out the front door of Clark was that rare breed
his home on a sunny morning reporter who not only covers aonally seeking out and accept
and sees on the lawn a giant news he creates it. He made ing the surrender of Col. Joseph
tree he loved, felled in the night a name for himself reporting Meisinger, "The Butcher of War
by a sudden wind. the doomed stand of General saw," who later was hanged for
Clark Lee was an Ernest Hem- MacArthurs' legions on Bataan his war crimes,
ingway hero in the flesh, the and Correeidor. and was the For all his boldness and cour-
FARM2R PAYS MORE
' What has the farmers espe
cially tiled is that their costs
are creeping up at the same time
foot by lecturing the senator
that he shouldn't be criticizing New Orleans, W) The aim
Benson but helping him. mering kettle of revelry in the
"We are aU part of the same "City That Care Forgot" boils
team," Davis pleaded. over today as Rex, Lord of Mis-
Abruotly Young reported that rule, reigns over New Orleans.
Hundreds of thousands will
Salem 42 Years Ago
r sum. ooianess ana cour- -'- '"'"'.."Z he intended to keen on crltlei
KsmsKSK t&&ssx rssz FArS
paia in ioi ior wnai is . r . vf . ni. V . , .v
known as the "farm-food mar- fa"ne e rter. Thousands of these merry-
ket basket." Of this, the farm- Note: Translated into commo- makers will be dressed as
. 4 ! i no 4hn nvm HMAaatnn AlAiima Tvlfataa afkt II Bat flan.
to help him out. er got $360 and the handlers, "1C 7"slu" r"T '
w iicp uuu vut. ....... ' tttA rinsf vpor hoi hnmntvl host nmr anti othp mitlanriiiih char
this sensitive quality processors, ana cusmoutors got r.,--V ."'"n Z"t:
ness about him, an endless un
derstanding of the other fellow's
problems and a quick willingness
Tl -
that made him a close friend of $362 an even split. One year eatUe from 27'30 Per to
men as diverse as Ernie Pyle
By BEN MAXWELL
, February 17, 1911 appropriation for $1250 has been
An appeal has been made In PP" y house.
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aa v tgieinviuc vi auus uuiliuiiv , , , . , - liiv 14 as0 wifvi a? v. wta amiuv ab a7 w
treatment for patients at the uurauy u si w,. .m and Hemingway. It waa
state asylum for the insane. meanf committee of Jhe senate an pair pyie and Clark made
When the speaker finished his reported the .Carson bill during the Italian campaign
speech he was presented with appropriating $ 1 5 0, 0 0 C r for aomething Uke seeing a fox ter
a handsome box of cut flowers, grounds and another building rlor rJdmg ta . jeep wlth .
, , , east of the capltol to house the black bear
' supreme court, the state library After the war Clark became a
leave san mT for cZ, . . . free lance' wrote fine biog" not only is getting less for what
leave San Diego for Cedros . . . raphy of General MacArthur, and he sells, but is paying more for
tJTinr:: !.lall5 feftlLly , toured the world with w'h't he buys P
z . v . . . j, ryr C T ogauiav uuuuii a-yi- nawauan princess wue, 1,111-
Spanish goldindicated by charts cent . cigars after George Wash- uokalani Kawananakoa, better
i ., 08 ,, n e i J lngton and Abraham Lincoln, known as "Baby." They were a
(Manila galleons bounded for a a a great team
."'.m!65?5 8nd 1811 The Dimick e8ht hour biU But Clark found it hard to get
passed this way and were some- was defeated by the house thU down to peacetime routine. He
lUf. tlHl. P.'J! n.rS afternoon by an overwhelming missed the robust hardships and
p"i."nf y vote- excitement of war-the thrill of
i-icnuinquej. a a gambling his life to get. "The,
... m Major Ely, venerable and Big Story."
An army Of 500 I. W. W. nlonHion ' .ltnn urilnnl.iL r'lnr-V hiJ tha ottrlhuta 4V,st
(Industrial Workers of the arms of the house is diligent stamps the champion the ability surplus food in an international
World) recruited from hobo about enforcing some ruling of to show his best in an emer- wearing house and distribute it
camps throughout the Northwest the legislature. But he it not gency. He never was meant for to countries under the shadow of
are headed for Fresno, Call- indifferent to the charms of the the humdrum life. I doubt if he famine and starvation. Coun
fornla, where they Intend, to gentler sex. Major Ely has a pair yearned for an old age pension. We Putting food into the re
wage a fight against a city ordl- of giajseg wlth especiaUy strong Perhaps it is as well that, lerve, wuW draw out raw ma
nance forbidding free speech. ,,. that bring the object of after Dassine throush so many terials, such as Iron and oil.
his vision right up close. He dangers on so many battlefields,
Construction of the Dallas- wears them exclusively when he should be surprised by death
Falls City railroad has breathed looking at the ladies. on the quiet shores of the Pacific
a new life into West Salem. a a a Ocean he loved so much and
Factories are now being built, Salem Woolen Mill store in a always returned to. The same
later, however 1952 the
same "farm-food market basket"
cost the consumers $739, an in
crease of $17, while the farmer's
take was down $20 to $340. The
middlemen's - charges, on the
other hand, were up $37 to $399.
In other words, the farmer
One basic cause Of tumbling
farm prices is the drastic drop
off in agricultural exports, par
ticularly wheat and cotton. To
counteract this, a group of sena
tors) led by Montana democrat
Jim Murray, are studying a pro
posal to establish an interna
tional food reserve.
The idea would be to collect
BY H. T. WEBSTER
Life's Darkest Moment
an electric power and light plant front page (Capital Journal)
is under construction, an eletric advertisement offers the dis-
power and light plant is under tingulshed Dutchess trouser for
construction, a lumber yard has men in worsted and cassimeres,
been established' and there is all in latest weaves and patterns,
talk of another bridge across the from $2.50 to $5 a pair.
Willamette (built last year) t m
the foot of Ferry street. West
Salem now has a population of
near 600.
a a a
A legislative bill for the sup
port of the McLoughlln home at
Oregon City and carrying an
ocean washes the island where
his buddy, Ernie Pyle, now lies
at rest, home from the wars, too.
Murray argues that the world
problem is not overproduction
but under-production; that our
fellow men are starving in some
countries while food stacks up
at home. He also claims that
an international food reserve
would stop the shrinking for-
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