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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Ike to Reve.se Plan to Needle
Russia; Won't Rock the Boat
Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, March 10, 1953
A CHALLENGE TO SALEM
'' . Announcement of Aaron M. Frank, president of the 86-year-old
Meier & Frank company of Portland, owner of the
largest department store in Oregon, has acquired most of
four city blocks in Salem including the old Salem High
. School building as a site for the erection of a huge depart
ment store in the near future, is flattering to Salem, for
it indicates a faith in Salem's future that many of its citi
zens lack. In his announcement Mr. Frank said:
"Our great faith In the people of the state of Oregon, compels
us to enlarge our type of merchandising service to the city of
Salem where we have many old and loyal customers. We are
proud to become an integral part of Salem and its trading area,
where our service, assortment, value, dependability and integ
rity will become part and parcel of this fine community. As
plana progress we shall keep the Salem community informed as
to what we have in store for them. We are pleased that Port
land's Own Store has become Oregon's Own Store."
The announcement is also a challenge to Salem. Oregon's
capital city has already attracted many of the national
chains of merchandising and heavy investments have been
made in establishments creditable to any community, ana
competition is the life of trade.
To justify the faith in Oregon's capital city shown by
merchandisers, there must also be an era oi development,
industrial, airricuitural and forestry to furnish increased
BODulation and payrolls that insure them customers. Mer
chandising alone cannot furnish them.
It is therefore essential that united community support
be riven agencies already created, such as the Salem Cham
ber of Commerce, the Salem Industrial Development Coun
cil, and others which may be created for agricultural devel
opment by irrigation, drainage and reforestation districts,
to increase production and diversification or farm products,
There is no richer or productive valley for its size in the
northwest than the Willamette valley, but only a fraction of
the area is now utilized. And it Is for everybody's interest,
including especially the merchandiser that this development
effort get speedily underway to help realize a golden future,
ABUSE OF JUDICIAL PRIVILEGE
Senator Welker of Idaho has come up with charges of a
species of petty graft which one hopes isn't very common
in the federal judiciary, but which a way ought to be found
to stop.
Welker cites a judge whose principal duties are at San
Francisco, but who claims Boise, Idaho, as his "official"
residence, making it possible for him to claim (10 a day ex
pense money for all days he Is away from there, which is
virtually every day he works. Welker claims this judge
has received $37,987 in this manner since 1937.
It is not claimed that the practice is illegal, for it is any
one's privilege to claim most any place as his residence if
he just visits there once in a while and doesn't register to
vote anywhere else. But it is decidedly immoral and when
indulged in by the judiciary it has an effect upon public
morale out of all proportion to the modest sums involved.
Here is just one instance in which unjustifiable federal
expense can be exposed, attacked and often stopped now
that we have, at long last, a federal administration with
any interest in economy, and its twin, efficiency. Let there
, be more of it at every point where abuses can be found,
which we think will prove numerous indeed.
MOURNING FOR STALIN
Didn't you get a peculiar feeling from all the evidence
of genuine mourning for Joseph Stalin within his vast
realm, where the heavy hand of his dictatorship has rested
for so long upon the heads of the people?
Here, you'd suppose, there would be great rejoicing,
, though it would certainly be subdued, for it would be worth
one's life even to look cheerful following the great man's
demise. But there was every indication of genuine, not pre
tended grief, on the part of many who crowded the Red
Square and filed slowly past his bier.
This feeling is not peculiar to the Russians, Mussolini
had the adulation of the Italians while he was leadinsr them
to ruin, and most Uermans idolized Adolf Hitler while he
was doing the same thing to them. Every despicable tyrant
in history has had his popular following, else he could not
have dominated his people.
This human disposition to idolize the worst rather than
the best in human nature is responsible for no small share
of the tragedies of mankind. When decent leaders can at
tract the fanatical loyalty that can be won so easily by the
worst "mankind will then indeed be free." But we do not
, expect such a transformation in the predictable future.
BY DREW PEARSON
Washington As result of
Stalin's death, the Elsenhower
administration has decided, at
least for the time being, to re
verse one of his campaign
pledges regarding Soviet Russia,
namely to use "every psycholo
gical tactic" to tree "tne na
Hons conquered by commun-
ism."
Reason for the reversal is fear
of rocking the boat at a delicate
international moment and glv
ing the new leaders in the
Kremlin an excuse for drastic
action.
The reversal is partly based
upon a go-slow recommenda-
tion from Allen Dulles, head of
central intelligence, who inci
dentally now differs with his
brother, John Foster - Dulles,
and his buffalo campaign
soeech of August 27, that we
should encourage "quiet" re
volutions in Red - dominated
countries.
This reversal may be a wise
one at this time at least so far
as the U.S. government is con
cerned.
However, it is also important
to consider the possibility that
Stalin's death may be the one
moment when the people of Rus
sia could more easily be divided
from their masters in the Krem
lin.
It may be the moment when
vast hordes of non-Russians may
wish to think twice about liv
ing under a regime which has
consistently milked them and
which has stamped out their
own pride of nationalism
Whereas they were willing to
go along with the revered Sta
lin, they may want to think
twice about allegiance to the
new Kremlin.
In brief, this may be the most
crucial moment in postwar his
tory a moment when the
world could take a tremendous
step toward removing the
threat of a ruthless military
power a real step twoard peace.
It also may be a time when
private American citizens,
Working with Soviet refugees,
could accomplish more, and
with greater international safe
ty, than the government.
UNREST IN RUSSIA
Here are some of the facts to
be considered:
1. It is well known that un
rest is rampant inside the satel
lite countries. Purges in Hun
gary and Czechoslovakia all at
test to this. My own observa
tions at the edge of the iron
curtain in Berlin last month
convince me ferment is more in
tense than ever before.
2. In the Soviet Union itself.
Irrespective of satellites, there
Is also great unrest.
3. The Soviet Union, actually.
is a conglomeration of 14 re
publics which are overwhelm
ingly non-Russian. Only two re
publics are predominantly Rus
slen. Nationalism is still strong
In the 14 republics.
Furthermore, the population
of the Soviet Union is 54 per
cent non-Russian. Here is how
Edward O'Connor, commissioner
lor displaced persons and an
expert on European populations,
breaks down the different eth
nic groups of the Soviet union.
Ukrainian Soviet Republic
population 42,272,000 . 91 per
cent non-Russian.
Byelorussian Soviet Republic
-10,525,000 83 per cent non-
Russian.
Estonian Republic 1,120,000
92 per cent non-Russian.
Lithuanian Reoublic 3.134.-
000 98 per cent non-Russian
Latvian Republic 1,950,000
98 per cent non-Russian.
Moldavian Republic 2,321
000 100 per cent non-Russian.
Georgian Republic 3,722,000
30-Day Delay Asked on
Idaho Power Project
Washington W) The interior
department has asked the fed
eral power commission for a 30
day delay in a scheduled hear
ing on the application of the
Idaho Power company for a li
cense to contruct a plant at
Oxbow on the Snake river be
tween Oregon and Idaho.
First hearings on the appli
cation were held In tht Pacific
northwest last year. They
were scheduled to resume here
April 13.
In a letter to the power com
mission, Interior Department
Solicitor Charles A. Davis re
quested the delay to give Sec
retary of the Interior McKay
more time to review the pro
posed Hells Canyon and Ox-
bow projects. 1
Tightening of Coffee
Supply to Be Brief
New York W-Coffee sup
plies are tightening up In some
parts of the. country, trade
sources here conceded Tuesday.
But, they hastened to add,
the situation should ease as
oon as price controls are lifted.
; Persistent rumors that price
controls are on the way out
have brought "utter confusion
into the orderly processing, dls-
WALSH FOR VAN DYKE
Corvallis Gazette Times
Last week Governor Paul Pat
terson replaced a good man on
the State Board of Higher Edu
cation with another good man.
Frank J. Van Dyke of Med
ford has been succeeded by
William Walsh of Coos Bay. The
iimcr win De remembered as
President of the Oregon senate
during the 1951 session while,
curiously enough, Van Dyke
was speaKer of the house.
Walsh's record in Oregon is
one of which anyone can well
be proud. His time in the state's
legislature has equipped him
with a working knowledge of the
Education Board's problems and
his addition to that Board will
aid it in working out intelligent
decisions on the difficult prob
lems now racing it.
As the Governor indicated in
making the appointment. Walsh
is a man who comes from a part
oi xne state not directly interest
ed In building up any local
higher educational institution
and will be able to deride the
problems of expansion on their
merits rather than on any per
sonsl.or locality basis.
trlbutlon and marketing of cof
fee, Industry spokesmen say.
And, they assert, while this
confusion lasts, some brands
may be In short suddIv in tome
parts of the country.
100 per cent non-Russian
Armenian Reoublic 1.348.-
000100 per cent non-Russian
Azerbaijan Republic 3,372,-
uuu uu per cent non-Russian.
Kazakh Republic 6,458,000
bo per cent non-Russian.
Uzbek Republic 6,601,000
84 per cent non-Russian.
Turkmen Republic 1.817.000
83 per cent non-Russian
Tadjik Republic 1,560,000
lou per cent non-Russian.
Kirghiz Republic 1,533.000
oh per cent non-Russian.
In other words, Stalin bit off
a somewnat indigestible, heter
ogenous empire. And the big
question is can his successor
keep them, plus the restless sa
tellite countries, under control?
IRON CURTAIN
PROPAGANDA '
For about five years, this col
umnlst has harped on the idea,
probably to the boredom of
readers, that time is running
against the United States and
the free world in the cold war.
As time passes, the Russian
population increases, and the
Russian war potential, its fac
tories, its railroads, its atomic-
Domo stockpile is strengthened
Furthermore, a new generation
arises in Russia which knows
little of the outside world, and
has no conception of the fact
that the peoples of Russia and
the United States once were the
best of friends.
The one and only reason for
the iron curtain, of course, is
to prevent that friendship. It
is known that when Red troops
were stationed in such western
areas as Germany and Austria
they intermingled and became
friendly when given a chance
with Americans and other
westerners. That is the reason
why Red troops are kept in vir
tual barricades in East Germany
and Austria today.
All of this points to the prob
lem of penetrating the Iron Cur
tain with effective people-to-
people friendship propaganda.
As a small laboratory test of
penetrating the curtain, this
columnist went to the edge of
the Czechoslovak border in the
summer of 1951 and, in cooper
ation with the Crusade for
Freedom, launched weather bal
loons carrying 11,000,000
friendship leaflets to the Czech
people.
This was small-scale propa
ganda and some people called it
a crackpot operation. However,
the results were electrifying.
The Prague radio screamed
with warnings to the Czech peo
ple not to read the leaflets.
Naturally, this made the Czechs
all the more anxious to read
them. The communist newspa
per Tvorba published a front
page cartoon of Harry Truman
launching balloons. The Czech
prime minister delivered a
speech claiming the balloons
carried, microbes.
In the end, leaflets were
tacked upon telephone poles,
even placed on communist bul
letin boards, and surreptitiously
mimeographed so that millions
of Czechs read them. A Czech
freedom train later came crash
ing across the border, and the
purge trials and unrest which
have torn Czechslovakla apart
since then all show that the
country was ripe for western
propaganda.
That is why I believe the time
may have come, not for any of
ficial, psychological warfare by
the United tSates, but for unof
ficial friendship messages from
groups of the American people
to show the different groups in
side Russia that, If they gave up
the warlike ambitious of their
masters, they would have real
friends in the free world.
(Coprrliht, Mil)
BY H. T. WEBSTER
Life's Darkest Moment
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Hal Calls U. S. Housewife
The Greatest Woman Ever
Harvey Protests Bill for
Publicity on Assistance
"Never before in more than
30 years of experience in Ore
gon politice have -1 seen the
senior citizens of the state so
aroused or increased as they
seemed to be as the result of
House Bill 321 which was in
troduced by the Joint Com
mittee on Ways and Means
about a month ago," Joseph E.
Harvey, chairman of the House
committee on social welfare,
said.
This bill would open to
public inspection the names,
addresses and amount of all
recipients of public assist
ance each month, except re
cipients of aid to dependent
children and children in foster
homes or other childcaring
Institutions. Harvey continued:
"The feeling of the average
citizen regarding this attack
which, the poor recipients of
welfare funds claim Is spon
sored by the rich, is well ex
pressed in the following quota
tion from a letter written to
his local newspaper by a
southern Oregon citizen' "It
would be just as sensible to
horsewhip everyone in the
state, on the assumption that
by doing ro all the lawbreakers
are sure to be punished.
"There are chlselers (perhaps
greater percentage of them)
among the income tax dodgers
whose income run into five
figures or more annually. These
may be cheating the state out
of far more money than the
occasional welfare recipient
who receives approximately
one dollar a day for food from
the welfare commission, scarcely
enough to buy one square meal.
"Having recently spent many
hours in research work on this
subject I am convinced that the
factual Information available
r o m several authoritative
sources will convince almost
any fair minded person who
wants to know the whole truth,
that the propaganda from the
Indiana experience which such
vicious and unnecessary legis
lation is pure "bunk."
"At the public hearing held on
this bill at Salem a week or
two ago I was the last person
listed on the agenda to speak
against this proposed bill, but
the meeting was summarily
adjourned by the Way and
Salem 39 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
March 10, 1914 inor West for $4,000 for destruc-
Mysterious disappearance of i tion of his business.
Frank Butts, well-known Salem
cabinet maker, has been prac
tically solved by Coroner Clough
who has Identified a skeleton
found on a sandbar three miles
downstream from Salem as that
of Butts. He disappeared about
a year ago and was last seen
alive when starting out from the
foot of State street In a motor
ized canoe.
Motorcycle Policeman J. H.
Stanton arrested Margaret Al
len of Portland yesterday after
noon for speeding on State
street. She was amused. When
she appeared before Judge Elgin
and was fined $25 she laughed
again. Officer Stanton and the
court did not see the joke. "I
be the constubule" a bystander
sang out. Law and order did
not think that was funny, either.
O 0 o
Miss Mary Richardson, pro
minent British militant suffra
gette, took six swings at Velas
quez's Venus with a meat axe
the other day. The $200,000
painting was extensively dam
aged. o
Salem city council has passed
an ordinance fixing the pcnaltv
for Illegal sale of liquor at $25
to s $100 fine or 20 days in Jail
for the first offense.
ooo'
William Wiegand, Coppertield
saloon keeper, has sued Cover-
Ah Bing, aged Chinaman liv
ing at 435 Ferry street, is dead.
Fellow countrymen say Blng
died because he was unable to
smoke opium any longer. Usual
punctured paper slips were in
evidence in the Chinese ceme
tery near City View burial
grounds after funeral services.
0 0 0
Bohemian partridges to the
number of 520 have arrived In
Oregon under the direction of
Max Muller of the game com
mission. The partridges arriv
ed from abroad after a long
voyage.
0 0 0
Supreme court has changed
rules as to examinations for ad
mission to practice law In Ore
gon. Formerly the applicant
had to be a high school gradu
ate or able to pass an examina
tion in high school courses. Now
he must pass an examination to
the satisfaction of the commis
sioners, subject to the order of
the court.
.ooo
"Willamette Institute of Sci
entific Research" is the latest
organization now planned by
students of Willamette univer
sity. 0 0 0
J. H. Stanton has been named
Salem speed cop and It was as
serted then that he -vould bring
in three or four times his salary
In way of fines.
Means committee members In
charge of the hearing, before I
was given a chance to present
the damaging evidence against
this "Mrs. Grundy Bill" which
would give every neighbor
hood gossip the right to poke
her long nose into the personal
business of every such welfare
recipient and to humiliate
many of these sensitive, elderly
men and women of the state.
"A few days later on the floor
of the House, one of the Ways
and Means committee members
offered a public apology and
claimed that the shutting off
of the debate at the hearing
before I had an opportunity
to testify had been caused by
an oversight. Be that as it may,
the House will soon follow the
Senate in limiting debate to
five minutes to each member
speaking on a bill. That will
effectively prevent the oppo
nents of this legislation from
bringing out the whole truth
berfore the members of the
assembly..
"The sponsors of this legis
lation even had the audacity to
attach an emergency clause to
the bill, which would prevent
the old folks, the common
people and the poor from filing
a referendum petition to block
this raw deal. If you have a
sense of humor you should get
a good laugh out of reading
that emergency clause. Here it
is: "This act being necessary
for the immediate preservation
of the public peace, health and
safety, an emergency is declar
ed to exist, and this act shall
take effect upon ,its passage."
They might appropriately have
added: "And may God have
mercy upon your soul."
In the interest of a square
deal for all legislators and for
the public, I am asking that
publicity be given to these facts.
Thousands of Oregon citizens
will remember how surprised
they were on the day after
election on November of 1948
when they learned that the
"impossible" Joe Dunne Bill
was approved by an over
whelming vote (313,212 to
172,531). The welfare giant
can' again assert himself in
Oregon, if tortured too much."
By HAL BOYLE
Kansas City WV-The greatest
woman in history is tne Amen
can housewife.
But too often she has an In
feriorlty complex. At cocktail
parties, particularly if there are
career women present, she is
likely to murmur when intro
duced:
"Oh, I'm nobody. I DON'T DO
ANYTHING. I'm just house
wife."
Actually, of course, she
proud of being a housewife. But
she feels that nobody else thinks
her job is either Important or
thrilling.
Too often she is right. I don't
say myself that the shop talk of
wives is always as interesting as
the reminiscences of actresses or
other lady wrestlers. But few
professional career women live
a life one half as exciting or
satisfying as that of the ordinary
housewife. Motherhood, the art
of raising children, is an endless
drama, a ceaseless adventure.
Statues have been built to the
Pioneer Mother of yesterday
and tomorrow they may build
statues to honor the American
housewife of today. She deserves
them for she is the best all
around woman since Adam took
a ribbing and gained Eve.
The pioneer mother had
rough task in her time. She had
to know how to bake and sew,
milk a cow, grow vegetables,
make soap, goosegrease the kids
when they came down with
cold, and even trigger a rifle if
the pesky Redskins - came too
close while the old man was
away. She was a wonderful wo
man who lived lonely, and gen
erally drudged herself to death
young.
But the difference between the
pioneer mother and her great-
great-granddaughter is the dif
ference between an unskilled
laborer and a skilled workman.
The American housewife is
real Jill-of-all-trades. In an
emergency she could do anything
the pioneer mother had to do,
But as a matter of daily routine
she can and does do things the
pioneer mother never dreamed
of.
The lurking Redskin who
threatened the log cabin in the
clearing has been succeeded by
the wolf of bankruptcy who
paws at the door of the neat new
$10,000 painted crackerboxes in
the suburbs. No rifle shot will
scare him off. He can be kept at
bay only by a wife within who
can make a small paycheck
stretch like rubber.
The husband today usually is
the chairman of the board in the
average home. The wife is the
executive vice president who
really runs the family corpora
tion. She is also the receptionist,
bookkeeper and janitor.
A girl planning marriage now
should study electrical engineer
ing as well as domestic science.
For the theory that mechaniza
tion of the home spells leisure is
a wry joke to a housewife. It
just means she has to know how
to repair a broken electric stove
if she wants to get the roast
cooked in time for dinner.
A good housewife today has
more precise knowledge about
more things than the women of
any other generation. On occa
sion she requires the specialized
talents of a cook, nurse, account
ant, buyer, psychologist, sales
man, dietician, entertainer, host
ess, electrician, paperhanger, gar
dener, char-lady and chauffeur.
She Is expected aim i ...
her feminine glamor, be ahl?
address a PTA luncheon f&
out what makes Junior ,i?T
and prescribe for the Ut
tropical fish if It sprain,
Why women want to ,.u
job in a nice cool office to tJ
on all the headaches and hstH
jiuno ui liuuro-iriRKing Is ikff
own secret. But they do a
their sucmss is measured bvfcl
prettier, American husband. .
children are healthier and fcJ
.""-."i u,nii "lose 01 it
other land.
"Oh. I DON'T DO ANYTHii,
. . . i m just a nousewife." wk.
a woman says that spologeUcaJ
ly, well someone should sowj
a bugle, a bugle blowing victor!
ior b )oo uibi really matters,!
OPEN FORUM t
Objections to Bill on
Chiropractors Voiced
To the Editor: I recentl. 5i
1 i . j 1. 1 - , ,
lenaeu a jjuujic neanng on Sti
ota Hilt 134 (aolsn.J ,TT
the practice of chiroDrsctir
The following day a news srtli(j
In the Capital Journal gave osl
the proponents' slant on thi.
controversial issue.
In checking with the editor
Mr. Mainwaring, he stated i
was an unintentional error sud
suggested this column aii
medium of presenting the vlewi
of the opponents. . 3
Proponents of this bill ),
would like to limit practice ol
chiropractic to spinal adjuit.
ment number only 14 In tat
state of Oregon as compared to
over 200 licentiates who are 6
posed and are represented h
the Oregon Association of Chiro
practic Psysiclans. Records Inil.
cate chiropractic physicissi
practicing obstetrics in Orcfoa
have a very low Infant raortslitjr
record equal to other prof.
sions. It was also brought out
that in some isolated areas f
the state chiropractic physiciiiu
are routinely required to ptr.
form minor surgery. Also, evi
dence was presented showini
the requirements licensing thi
chiropractor in Oregon are high
er tnan any other state in tht
United States and that the Ore
gon Association of Chlropriclii
Physicians is now sponsorihi
legislation to add two addition
al years of college to the pru-
ent four-year requirement; alio
to give the Board of Chlroprirtit
Examinations increased legtl
rights to police any offender!
within the profession. ,
It was pointed out by the op
position that passage of this bill
will literally take the chiroprac
tic profession back to the horn
and buggy days. This, in ipiti
of the fact that a progresilvt
group is making an honest el
fort to bring the chiropractic
profession up shoulder to shoul
der with other professions, l
As an impartial observer ant
ing both sides it does not sua
fair to me that an entire profu
sion should be discriminated
against because of the wishes of
few neither should Individ
uals be denied free choice nil
doctors which in the past hil
been satisfactory.
MRS. ALLAN FOSTER
Silverton, Oregon '
The name "Formosa" comtfj
from the Portugese, "Ilha For
mosa" which means 'beautiful
island."
Serving Salem ond Vicinity
os Funeral Directors
for 25 Years
Convenient location, S. Commer
cial street; bus line; direct route
to cemeteries no cross traffic.
New modern building seating
up to 300. Services within your
means.
trill T. Oolaeo
Onci a. Oonm
605 S.
Virgil T. Golden Co.
Comm.rclol St. FUNERAL SERVICE fhon. 4-MS7
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