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. Salem, Oregon, Thursday, February 19, 1953
30 DAYS OF THE IKE REGIME
Though the Elsenhower administration has been in office
only 30 days, it is well started on the change the people
voted for last November. It has checked the era of big
deficit spending and national debt increase in force the past
20 years.
Ike is in the process of decontrolling prices and wages
are now free. The White House and congress are in har
mony on economy. A balanced budget has priority over
tax cuts, which will follow, so will a more stable dollar.
The administration believes general prosperity will be
maintained at a new level by stabilized money. The left
wing democrats claim these policies may lead to a depres
sion, and clamor for more inflation to continue the perpet
ual wage and price spirals.
Eisenhower cautiously considers a lower tariff program
to encourage imports of goods and uxports of dollars to
end foreign aid at taxpayers' expense and build up pros
perity abroad. Foreign policies toward both the hot war
in Asia and the cold war in Europe to combat communism
has evidently not yet jellied, but a satisfactory solution to
tlie Korean war must be the objective..
' There has been a generally favorable reception to Eisen
hower's objectives for western European defense and the
Far Eastern crisis despite loreign protests.
Unfavorable developments and situations now confront
ing the administration were mostly inherited from the
Truman administration. The slump in farm prices started
under the democratic regime and had been in progress for
two years, and there is loud democratic clamor against Sec
retary Benson lor not doing something to stop it by in
augurating a costly dole policy which only stimulates in
flation and national debt.
Secretary Benson is the first realist, instead of a vision
ary, who has been in charge of the agricultural depart
ment instead of a demogogic visionary who believes federal
doles is the solution. There is no more reason why the gov
ernment should go to the aid of farmers than of any other
business and the farmer should be able to solve his own
problems. The dole is fatal to all, for it destroys initiative,
independece and thrift and can only lead in the long run
to regimented serfdom.
Benson will carry out the present law which compels sup
port of basic crops at 90 per cent of parity through 1954,
when congress will decide the policy. But even the absurdly
high parity prices, based on war inflation, cannot offset the
natural law of supply and demand, encourages overproduc
tion and penalizes the consumer and promotes inflation.
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They Give a Man a Dream Then Shatter It
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ALCATRAZ A WHITE ELEPHANT
Who is getting punished at AlcatrazT The desperadoes
who are incarcerated there, or the American taxpayer?
Senator Langer of North Dakota, a political maverick,
but a fellow who knows a clink when he sees one, was chair
man of a sub-committee that inspected the famous "rock"
in San Francisco bay. They found only 150 prisoners, though
the government is spending five million dollars a year keep
ing the place open. This figures out more than $30,000 a
year per man, and prompts the question asked in the first
paragraph. .
Actually, Alcatraz is a poor place for a prison, hard to
get supplies into, without even a water supply as we .under
stand it, ixng a name to strike terror in rebellious sou
dlers. it looked like a great place to send our public enemies.
But these ar better handled in regular places of confine
ment than singled out as underworld heroes.
And the taxpayer doesn't deserve the jolt he is getting.
James V. Bennett director of the federal prisons, has
recommended that Alcatraz be closed, and we believe it
should be. Here is one of many places where money can be
saved by the federal government.
A GOOD PROPOSAL
Senator Richard Neuberger has proposed an amendment
to the anti-Morse bill which we think will serve to apply the
axe to this piece of legislation, if it wasn t doomed already,
Newberger suggests that its application be delayed until
January 1, 1967. Since Morse's current term will expire
that month the change would make the bill Inapplicable to
him. Thus it could be considered on its merits as a general
policy, and not as a gun aimed at some particular individual,
If it is so considered we predict that the legislature will
conclude that it doesn t have enough merit to warrant pass.
age, or even much consideration. Interest in it is confined
to the Morse case to which it will apply unless the effective
date is changed.
It will be recalled that proponents of the two term presi
dential limitation met the charge that they were acting
against President Truman by making it inapplicable to the
president then in office, but binding upon all his successors.
In this form it soon received the endorsement of the 36
legislatures required and became part of the constitution,
Anti-Morse Measure Should
Be Rejected, Coos Paper Says
(Coos Bay Time)
Monologue by a man In a pull-
man club ear:
"Yes, Sir. tha trouble with this
world Is that they give a man
a dream and then they set out
to shatter It .
"Take the matter of retire
ment. For 25 years they've been
saying a fellow ought to plan bis
life so be could quit work at a
reasonable age and take It easy
the rest of bis days.
"Why. a fellow who expected
to go on working after 65 was
not only regarded as a soulless
grubber be was downright un
patriotic, and keeping some
young man from getting ahead in
the world.
'Remember the annuity adT
They showed a bale, outdoorsy
looking guy holding up a raw
fish be'd just drug out of a lake.
Everybody who had a job was
supposed to envy him. He had
been a real wise guy. He had put
enough acorns away every
month so he could retire while
he still bad bis health and spend
his time loafing and annoying
the fish.
I am one of these wise guys,
too. I figure It careful. I Dave
three plans.
"I can ault at S3, ana xne win
and me can build a shack at the
edge of the city dump and get
by on a meal a aay pius wnav
we can scrounge.
"Or I can so on until 60. ana
quit then with enough to rent
imall aoartment and eat twice
day. That's not too bad. A lot
of neoDle today are lusx cngging
their grave with their teeth to-
dav they eat too mucn.
If I hold out until no, me ana
the wife can take a small place
In Florida, eat three times a day
and have enough left to buy a
bottle of sunburn lotion once a
month.
"But what happens? The big
propaganda now is going the
other way. Everybody is point
ing out how dangerous It is for
man to retire, some aociora
say a man is uxeiy w u u
he throws up his job, because he
doesn't know what to do with
himself. He feels useless and un
happy, and his resistance to the
common cold is lowerea,
I uv that's a lot of bogwasn.
You know who I think Is behind
it? Wives. Yes. sir. wives.
I not a friend who will be so
naxt year. Ke says be will have
enough then to buy a racehorse,
and be will let his horse earn
him a living. His wife is against
tha whole project. You can't
blame her too much. No middle-
aged woman wants to feel her
groceries are dependent upon a
trance horse she has never even
met and has no coniiaence in.
'Naturally she wants my
friend to go on working. But
The measure prepared by
State Senator John P. Houn-
sell, Hood River republican,
designed to block the re-election
of Sen. Wayne Morse Is
certainly not in accord with
the democratic tradition and Is
beneath the dignity of the
Oregon legislature.
Twenty-five of 80 state rep
resentatives and nine of the 10
state senators have agreed to
back the measure. It Is rather
shameful to see so many legis
lators use the great Institution
in which they sit for purely
partisan matters.
The bill would prevent office-holders
from switching
parties when they seek re-election.
. It Is aimed solely at Sen
ator Morse who left the repub
lican party and became an In
dependent It would force him
to run as a republican when he
seeks re-election to 1968.
As an Independent, Morse is
almoit sure of recomlnation
His big teit will come when
the people of Oregon vote In
the final election. But this
proposal by Senator Hounsell
would take away from the peo
ple of Oregon their right to
choose their own senator.
Furthermore, the constitu
tionality of the measure is In
doubt No law can require
that any person become either
a republican or a democrat.
But the Hounsell proooial
would require that of Senator
Mcne. The result would be
that the senator would be
forced to the trooble and ex
pense of a court test.
It Is to be sincerely hoped
that the legislature will reject
this vindictive measure and
that Coos and Curry legists
tors will be among those vot
ing against K.
of my three retirement programs
Bo, so, or 09.
"She won't even let me talk
about them. Says it gives her a
nervous headache. Says she
doesn't want me around the place
ail aay, wearing out the furni
ture and poking ray nose Into
her kitchen.
"When I ask her, what do you
want me to do work until I drop
dead?" she says, 'Well. I'd rather
have you underground than
under foot"'
"Yes, sir, it's a plot, that's
what It Is all this talk against
retiring. It's a plot among wives.
"They're afraid if their bus
bands retire they'll find out
woman's biggest secret bow
easy they've bad It at home all
the yeara their old man was out
in the world wrestling for the'
bacon.
"And to keep that secret
they're willing to let us stay
prisoners of the alarm clock for
ever. Not me. I'm quitting at 65.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Army Navy Rivalry Factor in Blockade Furore
Salem 37 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
February II, ISM .antique cars and motorcycles
were advertised on the Auto
mobile page of this 37-year-old
Capital Journal: Sexton Six,
S883 F.O.B. Salem; Maxwell de
livered here for $745 and the
Excetesior auto-cycle, a motor
cycle with three speeds.
Farmers living near Woodburn
who have sustained extensive
damage to tbelr orchards
through depredations of beavers
are not entitled to recover
damages from the state, the game
warden or the members of the
fish and game commission ac
cording to an opinion by Attor
ney General Brown.
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Battle Creek item: Capital
Journal's report that railroad
surveyors have come Into the
community with the spring
flowers should be received as a
warning. These surveyors had
better not hike In to this neck of
the woods since Battle Creek is
going to load up all her old mus
kets and be ready for any such
stray animals.
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Now Is the time to buy your
silk dress this paper's All Around
Town page advises the ladies.
Scarcity and rising prices for
silk, says the item, may be attri
buable to difficulty in obtaining
dyes, a situation that will not be
improved before the end of the
European war. Indigo dyes are
becoming scarce and the price
for genuine blue overalls Is
advancing accordingly. '
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Another cherry red streetcar
will go into service next Monday
on the Commercial street run.
E. P. Cutler has been assigned
to this csr as conductor and
M. M. Todhunter as motorman.
The company now has seven
cherry red streetcsrs In service
with seven more to come,
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Salem High school will open
its new cafeteria for the first
time next Monday. Domestic
science classes under the direc
tion of Miss Bertha B. Edwards
will prepare food -servings for
60 pupils. Portions will be full
size and with 10 or 12 cents the
pupil can get a fair lunch.
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Three motor vehicles now ex
tinct and carried on the list of
Miss Elizabeth Cornelius has
announced that she will be a
candidate for the republican
nomination of school superin
tendent for Marion county.
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The "Shrapnel bonnet" is the
latest syle in woman's millinery
from Paris. It is designed upon
lines ot steel shrapnel-proof
helmets worn in the trenches
and the material used In making
It is red leather.
Washington One of the
most important factors behind
all the headlines over blockad
ing the China coast was an age
old rivalry that has periodically
torn Washington apart the
army versus the navy.
This wss not toe only reason
for the blockade furor, but It
was probably the biggest The
cast of characters Included some
of the top brass of the armed
services, and here is hew the
drama unfolded. -
The man who first enthused
President Elsenhower re a
blockade of the China coast was
able, redheaded Adm. Arthur
Kaoiora, stormy petrel ox we
navy, who was banished to the
Pacific from the Pentagon four
years ago when be helped or
ganize ope ration 23 to propa
gandize against the air force and
mobilized a navy drive on con
gress against the B-36 bomber,
against Secretary of Air Sym
ington, and against the air force
generally.
Since then the dynamic Bad-
ford has been more or lets out
of the headline as commander
of the Pacific fleet This would
be enough to occupy most men
but not the restless Radford.
Meeting Eisenhower at Iwo
Jlma on the letter's hop to Ko
rea, Radford spent one hour
pacing up and down the island
with Ike while the plane re
fueled, mad such an Impression
that Ike asked him to fly on to
Korea.
Back from the Pacific, the
new president lifted the em
bargo on Chiang Kai-Shek
which meant little because of
Chiang's Impotence, and def
initely considered blockading
the China coast, which would
hsve meant much. Certainly it
would have meant much for the
navy.
"UNCLE OMAR" BRADLEY
At this point there entered
another well-known and Im
portant figure. Mild-mannered,
slow of speech, seldom out of
temper, Gen. Omar Bradley of
Moberly, Mo., had once spoken
out in no uncertain terms
against Admiral Radford and
his navy cohorts. Called before
the house Armed Services com
mittee to testify in the navy-.
air force row, Bradley let loose
with some, real Missouri lan
guage.
Fancy Dans ' was what he
called Radford and his admirals.
Last week, "Uncle Omar," as
he is affectionately called in the
Pentagon, was called back to
Capitol Hill to testify on an
other Radford idea blockad
ing the China coast. This time
BYMIWriAKSON
Bradley testified m secret and
before the senate. 7 his time nu
language was more restrsinea
but just as effective.
Protamine almost every state
ment with the reminder that
Doliev decisions were not up to
him. be warned senator that a
blockade of China might fore
tha China communists to Si-
tack Burma and Thailand. If
they were cut off from the see,
he said, the Chines were al
most certain to open a beck
door rout through these two
countries.
This was all the more likely,
Bradley indicated, - because
about 4,000 Chines nationalist
troops wr In the Mslsys, led
by a handful of American ex
OSS men. Their presence would
give the Chines communists
an excuse to attack.
Senator Gillette of Iowa,
democrat, wanted to know what
would happen if war should ex
plode in th Fsr East Bradley
gave a disturbing answer. The
overwhelming strength of Rus
sia, be indicated, would put us
on the defensive.
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COLD WATER ON FORMOSA
Senators Knowland of Cali
fornia and Ferguson of Michi
gan, republicans, pressed Brsd
ley on sending Nationalist
troops from Formosa to Ko
rea. He replied that two Na
tionalist divisions were ready
for action, but would have to
be completely equipped when
they got there. And ne stressed
the tact that quipping them
would mean taking equipment
away from th South Koreans
and from our NATO allies In
Europe.
Cross-examined by Senator
Humphrey, General Bradley '
also warned that stepping up
supplies to Chiang on Formosa
would set back th NATO de
fense program by several
months. -
AU this testimony was given
very quietly and behind closed
doors. This time Bradley didn't
refer to "fancy Dan admirals."
But by the time he bad finished,
he bad just about demolished
any of Adm. Arthur Radford's
Ideas about getting the VA
navy back Into action in any
blockade of the China coast.
"Uncle Omar", was Dx Eisen
hower's top combat commander
during th Normandy invasion.
But he never did a better job of
political invasion than when he
testified behind closed senate
doors the other day.
Note Uncle Omar got three
assists from three rather Import
ant people. One was U.N. dele
gate Cabot Lodge, who four
times came In the side doors of
the White House to oppose a
blockade of China and urge a
tightened economic boycott
through the U.N. instead. Other
assists came 'from the British
and. French ambassadors who
delivered pointed aide-memoir
warning that If we wanted to
blockade the China coast we
would hsve to go It alone,
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democratic solons that his pro-
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