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Capital jJournal
An IrxJependent Newspoper Estoblishtd 1888
BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor and Publisher
GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus
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4 Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, March 4, 1953
STALIN'S FATAL ILLNESS
Moscow radio has announced that Premier Josef Stalin
on the night of March 2 had a sudden brain hemorrhage
affecting vital areas of the brain, which has developed a
paralysis of the right leg and arm with loss of conscious
ness and speech. His condition remains serious, with con
siderable disturbance of breathing and high blood pressure
and temperature. '
Stalin's grave illness bears a close resemblance to the
malady that killed his Dredecessor. V. L Lenin, in 1924,
Lenin suffered hardening of the brain arteries which, as
in Stalin's case, paralyzed his right arm and leg and im
paired his speech. But his illness was a lingering one that
lasted two years.
Early in 1922 doctors told Lenin, founds and guiding
spirit of Soviet communism, that he had cerebral sclerosis.
They ordered him to cease daily work. In December of
1922 Lenin began to lose his power of speech and became
' paralyzed on his right side. He died January 21, 1924, at
Gorky, near Moscow.
It is the opinion in Washington and has been for some
time that Stalin near death is more dangerous than Stalin
alive and in good health, because of the inevitable struggle
' for power in the politburo, which may result in World
War III.
Stalin has had unlimited power, whether he left a political
will and testament is unknown, and there is no likelihood
that it would be respected if he did, by those left out. He
has had final say in the course of the cold war.
It was Stalin who ordered the ruthless seizure of Poland,
Czechoslovakia, Hungary and all the other satellite states
which today Russia exploits behind the iron curtain. And
it was Stalin who sent the North Korean communists invad
ing South Korea in June, 1950, and ordered the Red Chinese
intervention in the Korean war.
It was after Yalta that Stalin suffered his first heaqt
attack and sometime after that his first stroke. In later
years, his left side was slightly paralyzed.
Stalin was firm in the belief that western capitalism
must eventually destroy itself, without the use of Russian
troops. He practiced propaganda and infiltration, utiliz
ing local communists directed from Moscow, to bring about
the enslavement of free nations, with global warfare the
last resort, but the dream of world conquest was his inspir
ation. The three who ruled with Stalin on the Council of Min
isters and Central committee most prominently mentioned
as possible heirs are Vyacheslav Molotov, George Malenkov
and Laurenti Berria, head of the Russian secret police and
in charge of slave labor. None of the big three apparently
have any use for the others and all have echoed the Stalin
ist Hate America campaign.
Under new leadership Russia might abandon the theories
of communist world conquest and subside into its own
sphere but developments of the sucession will have to be
awaited and the "Sword of Damocles ' still hangs over the
West .
LEGISLATORS as Seen by Murray Wade
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
25-Year-Old Now Rated Vital
Factor in the Business World
By HAL BOYLE
REJECTING THE RED BARTER OFFER
Churchill took a lofty ground in rejecting a communist
hint that the Reds would be willing to release a British busi
ness man, Edgar Sanders, whom they were detaining in
Hungary to face spy charges, if the British would free one
Lee Meng, Chinese girl guerrilla chief under sentence of
death in Malaya.
Churchill pointed out that justice must not be compro
mised by such a deal, but must take its proper course in
Malaya, or presumably anywhere else in the British realm,
and that Sanders was being held without cause in Hungary,
though this will have no bearing on what the Reds decide
to do about him.
While probably not so Intended the Churchill stand im-
plies a criticism of U.S. policy in the Vogeler case. Here
we made a somewhat comparable deal to secure the free
dom of one of our own citizens, a sten we have not reneatsul
in the Oatis case, possibly because too high a price was de-
manuea.
we would have more respect for Churchill's ringing
words, whether we agreed with them or not. were it not for
British conduct in China. Britain ships goods into China
every aay, including military supplies that help China kill
British soldiers in Korea. This deplorable attitude con
trasts so sharply with the high moral line Churchill is cur
rently taking aa to recall the old saying: "What you are
peaks so loudly I can't hear what you say."
SUPPORT YOUR RED CROSS DRIVE
We say "your" Red Cross drive because this is axaetlv
what it is. Much of the money stays in Marion county to
finance the Red Cross work here though a portion of it
goes into the treasure chest of "the greatest mother in the
world, to finance her deeds of mercy wherever the need
arises, as it does and always will.
The local program, of which the blood bank is possibly
the best known at present, but actually onlv one TihAsp.
hould particularly Impress potential contributors, for it
u natural to consider tne needs at home more urgent than
uose iar away.
Unfortunately our local Red Cross record has not been
good. For three straight years we have failed to meet our
quota. Surpluses previously created by generous giving
are exhausted. The local Red Cross is now "on its own,"
Its backlog spent, its activities limited strictly to what
the people give.
So it is up to us if we want the Red Cross program con
tinued, ana ox course we oo. so give generously.
Br HAL BOYLE
New York VP) Every field
has its elder statesman.
In American politics today it
Bernard Baruch. In baseball
for many years it was Connie
Mack.
In the American business
world it is the 25-year man,
The 25-year-man is the wheel-
horse of. office and factory, a vi
tal link between the oldest mem
ber of the board of directors and
the newest office boy.
Time was when the man who
celebrated his 25th anniversary
on the job did so with a glum
feeling of wasted youth. The
best he could hope for was a
pat on his faithful back, and the
worst was a look in his boss s
eye that said, "H-mm, maybe I'd
better start looking around for
a younger man."
Today the 25-year man is a
kind of hero of business, a sym
bol of achievement. Many firms
now periodically take out full
page ads bragging to the public
about the number of such vet
erans they have on the payroll.
For example:
'You don't have to worry
when your little girl plays with
Acme tlddlywlnks. Yes, Acme
tlddlywinks are completely sale.
Four out of five craftsmen in
Acme's giant tlddlywinks plant
have spent 25 or more years on
the lob. That sells experience,
Acme craftsmen know better
than to leave any sharp edges
on our tlddlywinks, because their
own grandchildren play wltn
them, too."
The present vslue placed on
years of service hss made the
25-year man a vital figure in
Industry, and he is now recog
nized asamorale factor. The
trend is toward rewarding him
with something more substantial
than a form letter of appreciation.
Take a typical ease in the
Acme tlddlywlnks works. Old
Joe Ten-thumbs, a quarter cen
tury to the day from the morn
ing he punched his first time
clock, goes to work feeling a nit
sorry for himself.
He still feels that way when
suddenly the noon lunch whistle
blows two minutes early. A
group of grinning fellow work
ers surround dazed Joe and
break into "Fo He's a Jolly
Good Fellow."
The boss then steps up and
fastens into his lapel the Acme
firm's 25-year pin a huge tid
dlywink emblazoned with the
figure "25" and with Joe's name
on the back of It.
Joe is led in for a lunch with
the firm's officials but is too ex-
cited inside to eat much. "With
out men like you, Joe, we'd be
out of business," the president
says, and hands him a bonus
check of $25 a buck for esch
year "and lust a token, of
course."
Joe is then told to take the
rest of the day off, and he
trudges home blinded by the re
alization that all these years he
hss meant something.
His wife msy say, "They could
have given you a trip to Europe."
The other men on the vast tld
dlywinks assembly line may kid
him, "with that pin and a dime
you can get a bus ride." And it
may be true even that in Joe's
own esse his 25-year pin msy
represent the triumph ot endur
ance over inability.
It makes no difference. Joe
Ten-thumbs is ever afterward of
higher stature, a person of more
Importance. He. is an elder
statesman, the other workers pay
him a grudging respect, and his
opinions are valued, even if he
sometimes makes himself a nuis
ance with them.
If a new hired hand complains,
"There's a dead mouse in the
water cooler," the boss replies,
How could there be?" But if
old 25-yesr-msn Joe ssys It, the
boss answers, "Well, Joe, we'll
have to see sbout that I guess."
They hsve to listen to Joe he's
got experience behind him.
And Joe himself secretly has
a new gosl. He looks forward to
his fiftieth snnlversary on the
job. He wsnts to become the
first man In the plant to win a
2 5 -year pin with an oak leaf
cluster.
Salem 38 Years Ago '
By BEN MAXWELL
Grants Pass Company
Gets Loan from RFC
Wsshlngton (UA A 150,000
loan has been approved by the
reconstruction finsnce corpor
ation for the Marks Lumber
company of Grants Pass, Ore.
The loan will enable the firm
. to Increase production of rough,
green pine. The RFC said half
the loan would be used for pur
chase of timber and half for
wee-king capital.
Far East Trade Meet
'Complete Success'
Manila CV-Thirty seven na
tlons Wednesdsy ended the sec
ond U. N. Asian and Far East
Trade Promotion Conference and
delegates called it a "complete
success.
Chsirmsn Cornell Balmaceda
ot the Philippines said the 10-day
meeting "will stand out as one
of the most widely attended and
successful world conferences
ever held for the promotion of
international eomxnaro. '
Mareh 4. 115
Harry P. Mlnto, Salem, has
been named warden ot the pen
itentiary to succeed B. K. Law-
ion. Mlnto. now in the east
studying prison methods in var
lous states, will assume his new
duties Msy 1.
a
Frank Davey Is now prison
bookkeeper and bertillon expert
replacing T. R. Wilson, resigned
to become sn assistant In the of
fice of Internal revenue collec
tor.
First definite step toward cre
ating a flax industry for the pen
itentiary and tne Willamette
valley was taken by the board
of control today when the pur
chase of 600 bushels of superior
flax seed was authorized. This
amount, together with 100 bush
els available here, will be suf
ficient to seed sbout 350 seres.
The board Is now msklng an ef
fort to obtain acreage within a
radius of five miles from the
penitentiary. '
a
Rev. Walter T. Sumner, new
ly consecrated bishop of Oregon,
will begin his first round of dio
cesan visitations at Salem's St.
Paul's Episcopal church next
Sunday.
Occupants of the Pstton block
will soon hsve new store fronts
snd better lights. But this ac
complishment will necessitate
removal of the old, wooden
marquee erected with the build
ing in 1869 and beneath which
thousands of Salem folks sought
shelter in bad weather.
Mrs. Isaac Lee Patterson, at a
Portland meeting held yester
day, was chosen stste regent for
the Oregon Daughters ot the
American Revolution.
After serving the Evangelicsl
assooiaUoa as a place of wor
ship for 48 years, the old church
st the corner of Liberty and
Center street will soon be dis
mantled. The lot wss bought
by members of the association in
1864 and two years later the
present church on the corner was
erected. A new, modern edifice
will replace the present church.
"Hitting the hay" Is a realistic
experience at the state indus
trial school for girls. Matron
Hopkins' report ststes that many
of the girls sleep on pallets of
hay In rooms and corridors. She
has been authorized to purchase
proper bedding to relieve pres
ent conditions.
a
I. G. McDanlel, assistant man
ager of the Commercial club,
has been appointed secretary of
the social service center.
Sweet Brisr club composed of
residents of Wsllsce road dis
trict were entertained yester
day st the horn ot Mrs. Jsmes
Imlsh.
Counterfeit
Half Dollars
Passed Here
The appearance of counter
feit half dollars In town this
week prompted Chief of
Police Clyde Warren today to
request that merchants be on
the lookout for the fake coins.
If sny are spotted, a descrip
tion of the coin pssser should
be noted and the police noti
fied immediately, he said.
Two ot the coins were re
ported passed In a local tavern
Police Department
Adds Two Officers
The city police department
added two new officers this
week to replace two men who
resigned recently, Chief Clyde
A. Warren announced.
The new men are Frank Per-
low, Jr., 25, 1125 South 19th
street, and William Vanderhoof,
25, 1040 Spruce street. Both are
World War II veterans. Perlow
is a navy veteran and .was re
cently employed as a guard at
the state penitentiary. Vander
hoof wss recently discharged
from the army.
Their appointments will be
temporary until they pass city
rcivil service exams and serve
their probation period.
Richard Boehringer and Wil
liam A. Marker were the two
men who resigned recently.
Marker is returning to Oregon
State College to complete his
requirements for a degree be
fore entering the service.
Wholesale Food
Prices Again Hiked
New York VP) Wholessle
food prices, as measured by the
Dun & Bradstreet food index.
registered their fourth succes
sive advance this week.
The Index climbed to $6.28,
highest level so far this year,
from $6.21 in the preceding
week, but was well below the
$6.56 recorded in the compar
able week a year ago.
Previous high for this year
was $6 25 on January 13. The
low was $6.13 on February- 8.
The index represents the to
tal cost at wholesale of one
pound each of 81 foods In gen
eral use.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Young Bob Has His Father's
Courage, Plus More Stability
BY DXIW PEARSON
Washington For 46 years
there wss a member or me ia
Follette family in the United
States senste. And for even
longer there has been a La Fol
lette in Wsshlngton.
In a way there suu is. up in
the csDltol, where every state
is tierm It ted to plsce two of its
most cherished heroes, stands
the statue ot the elder Bob La
Follette. Actually the elder
Bob -sits, sits and muses, and
looks out on the stream of tour
ists which flock by him in such
numbers that the tip of his
bronze shoe is worn shiny where
thousands of admirers touch his
feet
If that statute were able to
think, or if the elder Bob is able
to look down and known that his
eldest son, nsmed for him, took
his own life the other dsy, he
should not be too harsh cn r.lm,
In a wsy. It wss through
thinking of his father that young
Bob took his own life. He felt
he had let old Bob down.
Actually he hadn't. Follow
lng in the footsteps of a man as
brilliant and meteoric as the
elder Bob, a man who had run
for president, had come so close
to building up a third party, had
held the state of Wisconsin and
much of the northwest in the
hollow of his hand, wss a dif
ficult thing to do.
But in the opinion of his fel
low senators, young Bob had all
the courage of the old man, with
more stability.
COMMUNISTS VOTED FOR
MCCARTHY
He put across the LaFollette
Monroney bill for the reorgani
zation of congress. He bucked
the National Association of Man
ufacturers in a long expose of
civil liberties lnfrsctions, show
ed how they covertly spent
money to influence the press,
how they even secretly subsi
dized commentator - columnist
George Sokolsky. He exposed
the murders of coal operators in
Harlan county, Ky., he was the
top presiding officer of the sen
ate, snd he dared buck FDR on
lifting the arms embsrgo when
he, like his father, feared we
would drift into war. -
But having fought big busi
ness Just as vigorously as his
father, and sometimes more' ef
fectively, young Bob accumulat
ed enemies powerful enemies.
And they concentrated every
thing they had to defeat him in
1946. The NAM poured in
money, and left-wing labor
poured in votes. It's an ironic
twist of fate that the 5,396-vote
margin by which Bob La Fol
lette was defeated came from
the communist party, which
went all-out against him.
And the man they voted for
and who defeated Bob welcom
ed their support. "They have a
right to vote, haven't they?"
Joseph R. McCarthy told news
men. HUMDRUM LAW PRACTICE
After young Bob's detest, he
wss considered for various fed
eral Jobs, such as TV A adminis
trator, but finally ended up
practicing law. He was on the
board of directors of Sears, Roe
buck, and he represented the
United Fruit company. But it
was pretty humdrum stuff com
pared with the days when he
wss battling things out in the
senate.
Young Bob used to get a little
depressed about it. He used to
come and lunch in the Mayflow
er hotel, all by himself, lust sit
ting and thinking thinking
now he'd let his father down.
Especially he used to think of
the days when his father had
helped mske Wisconsin one ot
the great forward-looking, pro
gressive states ot the union, and
hunting that might lesd to fas
cism.
Attending the 25th wedding
snnlversary of his old friend,
Sen. Lister Hill of Alabama,
young Bob spoke sadly of Uis,
told how he never should have
let McCarthy beat him, how he
had let his father down.
And, troubled with a severe
heart condition, he went up to
the capltol building where his
father once made his longest
speech In history, where he him
self hsd served as a page boy,
where he had presided over
many a session of tho august,
sometimes unruly senate. And
taking one last look at the sta
tue of his father, th image
which so msny visitors hsd
reverently touched, young Bob
went home, phoned his wife,
and Joined his father.
What Washington is buzzing
about:
Secretary of Defense Wilson's
lavish lsyout ten bedrooms
and ten baths at the Ward
man Park hotel.
"Bugeye" Barker, the un
American activities investigator
who took the rap for Congress
man Velde's mistake about Mrs.
Agnes Meyer.
Budget Director Joe Dodge,
who is so suspicious of secre
taries that be opens all his own
mall.
The suggestion that Pentagon
menus should list the calories as
well as the price ot esch dish
to help overweight officers re
duce. The White House's austere
backstage business manager.
Roger Steffan, who instituted
the new, no-smoking, no-Iolter-lng
rules.
Senstor McCarthy's secret in
vestigation of Supreme Court
Justice Tom Clark.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
Congressman Pat Sutton .has
been whispering around Tennes
see that he will try to unseat
Senator Kefauver next year.
Sutton seems to think the voters
hsve forgotten how he pulled
wires to fix a famous tax fraud
involving his fsther-ln-law . . .
The Communist Daily Worker
has quietly purged its veteran
Washington correspondent, Rob
Hall. He's been replaced by a
new party-liner, named Harrv
Raymond . . . The senate foreign
relations committee Is investi
gating the bad propaganda ef
fect of certain Hollywood
movies. Worst example is "The
Desert Rat," which glorified
Nazi Field Marshal Rommel.
However, the state department
has surveyed sll Its embassies'
PLEADS FOR RED CROSS
Gov. Paul L. Patterson urged
Tuesday that everyone give
generously to the Red Cross "to
represent humanity in action to how today the man who repre-
wnrrevw nein u need- sented it In th ivnato hari minrt.
ed. led a reiim ot terror and ultrh.
sir. ana Mrs. M. J. yt'
are now conducting- a a.rtJ
meetings at Centrsl LutM
u oervices sre held
7:45 each night, ai..
o'clock next Sunday bjJ
MILITARY kii
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AND VETERAN
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Wednesday, March 4
Adlr.inlstnUve meetliur r
Thursday, March S
ORC iWM Bit XJKJLl slrvi
Organised Naval Rutn.Ll
division at Naval and Hansi iOa
Reserve training center.
Battery o. rand AAA. AW J
talion, at Quo nut huu 1
Company D. 162nd inr.n, . P
mem. Oregon Nstlon.i n.."l
Salem armory. "Open Hon
nonor worm war I vetenu Vf
tnhll Invito 'iUi M
Friday, March S
Seabee reserves, at v..v.....l
line Corps Reserve trslntniajal
Saturday. Bandar. Man i ...
Naval Air Reserve miT .1
not t kv.i ii.
- -. . .wulif,
Helllesen In Korea
Fmm Korea has come km J
a former Salem Army and Air J
Uesen, to serving there mth tfcTJ
corps. Th9 colonel, on
1948. is a veteran r wuvl
n with 40 months spent in xJ3
As a reservist he
active duty in 1841. ami ,.. zl
vwvjr rcr &U1CC. EtUK&i
was at Command and Grawal Sua
school at Port Leavenworth, jr.,
before leaving for the US
Prior to that he wu uh,JT.;
Sixth Army Headquarters, Pmidit
in ami r I MUCldCO, laill.
and reports to the senators that
American movies have done frl
more good than harm in aid
ning mends for -us aboard ,
congressman Velde will itr
Hearings on communlsti
Hollywood the end of Mutt
Velde's committee has slmir
slapped subpoenas on tl wit
nesses . . . Velde is so Jltttn
over the criticism he's been Ki
ting from the clergjr that be'i
even dodging the press cora it
the hope people will forget hi
blunders . . . Frederick-Billlne
Lee of Woodstock. Vt.. mil
deputy administrator of CAA,i
slated to be new CAA admlniiJ
trator ...
(CoprrUhl. itsi)
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No Wage Increase
Says General Electric
New York (T A spokesman
for the General Electric com
pany, says GE has given the
CIO International Union of
Electricsl Workers "ro Indlcs
tion that sny wsge adjustment
wss contemplated at this time."
The statement came- st the
end of Tueidsy's opening ses
sion ot wage talks. The IUE
sought an increase of 21 cents
an hour and other benefits for
its 71,000 workers In 60 of GE's
plants In the nation. The union
ssys GE production workers
now aversge $1.83 an hour for
straight time.
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