THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon
Monday, March 16, 1951
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NEW FACES IN THE BASEBALL PICTURE
Pending transfer of the St. Louis American league
' franchise to Batlimore and of the Boston National league
franchise to Milwaukee will be the first movement of a
big league baseball club since 1903.
For half a century all 16 clubs have been located in
the same cities, two each in New York, Boston, Philadel
phia, Chicago and St. Louis, one each in Brooklyn, Wash
ington, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnattt and Detroit
In 1903 Baltimore lost its big league franchise which
had been held by the still remembered Orioles on which
such luminaries as Willie Keeler, John McGraw and Hugh
Jennings played, to New York, a club then known as the
Highlanders, now as the Yankees.
For almost all this time the clubs have borne their
present names, though the Senators are now often called
the Nationals and the Cardinals the Redbirds, which are
only slight variations. Big league baseball has been an
extremely stable institution, almost monotonously so.
Why after all these years are the foundations being
shaken? It's a matter of money, as you've perhaps al
ready, guessed, bt. Louis isn t big enough to support
two major league clubs and the Cardinals won top spot
in the affections of St. Louis fans by playing superior
baseball, while the-Browns management was satisfied to
put a minor league club in the American league year after
year. The Browns are long overdue for a move, and
Baltimore is a logical place for them to go.
The Boston Braves have been a good club and the de
cision of their owners to move them comes as a surprise.
But Milwaukee is far better able to support one team
than Boston is to support two, and in Boston, the Red
Sox of the American league are clearly the ones to stay,
just as the Cardinals are in St. Louis. '
This shakeup, assuming it goes through, should be a
good thing for baseball, giving two more cities a direct
interest in it, and providing stronger financial support
lor two or tne weaker clubs.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
DEATH OF ANOTHER RED DICTATOR
These "ides of March" are poison for' communist dicta
tors, as they were for another Caesar two millenniums
ago. Klement Gottwald, the Kremlin's straw boss in
Czechoslovakia, died Saturday, only a little more than
a week ago the demise of the overlord of half the world,
Joseph Stalin. ,
There is so much deception in communist countries that
already dark rumors say Gottwald was purged by the new
rulers of Russia, who feared that he might become an
other Tito. But this seems unlikely. He was known to
be in poor health and there was nothing in his record or
attitude to suggest that he harbored any disloyal senti
ments toward Moscow. .". 1
Gottwald was a peasant who was forced to fight for
Austria in world War I, got into the communist party
eany ana rose in it Decause lie had the ruthless qualities
required. He was trained in Moscow for his future role
during World War II, returning to Czechoslovakia In
1945 when the Germans were overthrown.
By 1948 Gottwald was able to overturn the democratic
Czech government and to install a communist dictator
hisp completely subservient to Moscow, which has since
become a familiar pattern for Russian conquest. Only
in Yugoslavia has the scheme backfired. Elsewhere
Moscow has kept its puppets firmly in line, liquidating
them whenever it got suspicious, or even tired of them.
Gottwald will leave a sinister name in Czechoslovakia,
which has known bloody tyrants through the centuries
past, but none so brutal or so bloody. Nor is it likely that
his passing will ease conditions, any more than the pass
ing of Stalin will in the Soviet realm as a whole. The
pattern is fixed, the course set. The rulers could hardly
change it now if they wanted to.
HOW. BOY BANK ROBBERS COME ABOUT
"He did it for me," sobbed the mother of the 17-year-old
robber of the Mt. Angel bank, baring a story of a
broken home and a mother's failing efforts to keep her
family clothed, fed and sheltered. She said she was in
urgent need of rent money and the boy had payments
due on his car. -
Here is an all too familiar pattern of why youngsters
go wrong. The home breaks up, the father leaves his
family without support. The mother is unable to be
both parent and breadwinner and more than financial
support is lacking in the home.
Many times the family comes through on sheer grit
and the children are stronger through life for their sac
rifices. This is one that didn't, and there are too many
of these. Nor is it clear how tragedies of this kind are
to be avoided, for we probably have more of them now
than we had when there was little or no public assistance
for mothers left with dependent children to fend for.
HENRY
By CoH Anderson
"Ml Ml
Defense Charles E. Wllion
went into complete, though
secret reverse last week. After
telling a senate committee he
could make no real cuts in the
defense budget, he ordered the
navy to cut by two billions,
the air force by two billions,
and the army by a quarter oil
lion.
Reason for the reversal was
a determined desire on the part
of Budget Directotr Joe Dodge
to chop expenses, plus reallza
tlon that in the armed forces
there's the greatest fat. .
Here is some news which
may help Dodge and Wilson.
A little over a year ago
Feb. 4, 1952 this column re
ported in detail how the army,
navy, air force overlapped, du
plicated, and competed . with
each other in buying supplies.
In such a relatively simple
item as carpenter's squares, for
Instance, a carpenter's square
for the quartermaster' corps
cost 65 cents, for the navy $2,
for the army $1.90, for the
signal corps $2.10, for the army
engineers $1.48, for the air
force $1.40.
Furthermore, even within
the army itself, there is no
standardization of carpenter's
squares, so that the army cata
log "contained six separate
specifications for squares the
signal corps', ordnance's, trans
portations's, engineers', chemi
cal warfare's, and quartermas
ter corps'. On top of this, air
force has to have a seventh
number, and the base cost of
reprinting army catalogs to add
the air force's 7th number is
about $1,500,000.". ,
Last year also, a subcommlt
tee spearheaded by Congress'
men Carl Vinson of Georgia
and Eddie Hebert of Louisiana
performed extensive research
on armed services duplication,
finally passed a lew requiring
the army, navy, air force to
compile one catalog from
which they all would order
instead of competing against
each other through separate
catalogs.
That law was passed on July
1, 1952. Since then, the defense
department has had 300 peo
pie working full time in 'Wash
ington, plus 3,000 people work
ing part time in the field to
compile a Joint armed services
catalog. Finally, after spend
ing $87,000,000, they have pro
duced the first edition a cata
log on "subsistence" or food
length, 40 pages!
In contrast, the complete
purchasing catalogs of the
army, navy, air force fill one
room. So, at the rate of $87,
000,000 for 40. pages, it will
take billions to complete, the
entire catalog.
CONFIDENTIAL MEMO
As a result of this dilly-dal
lying, acting Defense Secretary
William Foster in' the Truman
administration sent a confiden
tial memo to his republican
successor on the day before
Elsenhower took over. This col
umn has obtained a copy of the
confidential memo, which
reads:
You will recall that I
touched briefly on the subject
of the cataloging and standard
ization program and my con
cern as to its effectiveness. At
tached is a copy of my memo to
Mr. Sheridan, defense manage
ment staff, recommending ac
tion I believe to be appro
priate. . . ,"
Foster enclosed not only his
recommendation for the use of
outside civilian experts to cut
army-navy duplication, but he
also enclosed an amazing memo
from Edward J. Sheridan in
which the defense management
director admitted complete
failure by the armed forces to
get together on a joint, stand
ardization buying program.
According to the confiden
tial memo, the 40-page catalog
for the purchase of food, re
ferred to above, "does not in
clude information on each item
needed for supply operations
such as . . . size, weight, cu
bage. . . . This means that the
subsistence catalog which cov
ers the simplest catalog of
Items existing in the military
supply system cannot be used
in supply operations,
In other words, after spend
ing $87,000,000 of the taxpay
ers' mney and eight months
time, even the meagre 40 pages
of standardized catalog arent
worth using.
"It would appear," continues
the confidential memo, "that if
this practice is followed for the
remaining 73 groups of items to
be cataloged, the intent of the
congress will not be met and
that a single cataloging system
will not be developed.
"Further the subsistence
catalog, first published in No.
vember 1952, is already at the
printer for revision and in
clusion of 300 additional Items"
which the boys forgot.
"One million news Hems
have entered the supply sys
tem since the Korean war start
ed," the memo continued, "and
represent a tremendous back
log of work.
"The rate of new Items com
ing Into the system Is greater
man tne rate ol cataloging,
Wilson Orders Armed Forces
To Make Deep Budget Cuts
Y DREW PEARSON
Washington Secretary of , means that we have undoubU
edly spent needless time, mon
ey, and effort in cataloging
items which were obsolete. . ."
When congress passed the
law for standardized buying it
was estimated that the elimina'
lion oi competing army-navy
warehouses, duplicate wear
ing personnel, duplicate books,
cataloging, etc.. would save the
taxpayers four billions. Instead
It has cost $87,000,000 extra.
Four billions is just about the
amount Budget Director Dodge
has ordered Secretary Wilson
to prune. This may be one way
to ao it.
Note The navy has ordered
14,500 copies of the 40-page
new catalog on food, the army
only 50 copies, the air force
none; which indicates that the
latter two don't Intend to use
the new catalog but will go
their own way.
MAIL BAG '
A. N., Washington Attor
ney General Brownell used a
justice department truck li
cense No. 4764 to move his per
sonal effects from the Lee
house to his new home. How
ever, he explains that he left
the arrangements to someone
else, and found at the last min
ute they had sent' a government
truck. It being Washington's
birthday he could not get a
private truck, so paid the gov
ernment for the use of its
truck, also for th driver's time.
. : . Correction Undersecre
tary of State Bedell Smith in
forms me that I was in error
in reporting that John Foster
Dulles suspended Alfred H.
LEGISLATORS as Seen by Murray Wade
'SvlcER JOHNlMlSKO
woua caya minor vou-ens
deemed of age upon. marrtat
'RecMonroeveetlano
fawti make committeemen ani
women if each party official
resistors of voters'"
9 u
Judge-
James H.
Sturois
PertcUtton.
Poticar
fruueum.
JtieiBa-rturri of
Eosfom Oraoi
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Sell Memories, Eisenhower
Tells American Retailers
confesses Mr. Sheridan. "This
Morton, head of the Voice
America in New York during
the McCarthy investigation
only to reinstate him next day.
General Smith says that he, not
Dulles, suspended Morton
Glad to make this Correction
However, If General Smith
close friend of Anna Rosen'
berg, who knew how she was
crucified by McCarthy and who
knows McCarthy's unfair meth
ods, can get as jittery as he
showed himself ir the Morton
incident, then the state depart'
ment is really going to pieces.
, National Council of
Churches, New York Con
gressman Velde who wants to
probe the churches was elected
with the heavy financial sup
port of the gambling and liq
uor fraternity around Peoria
considered one of the worst
crime spots between New Or
leans and Chicago. . . . Navy
Yard Worker, Philadelphia
The Brabilian midshipmen who
brought radios, TV sets, and
electric fans aboard the train
ing-ship Duque de Caxias pur
chased them in Philadelphia
stores. There Is nothing illegal
about taking these articles out
of the USA.
TAX EMANCIPATION
With taxpayers sweating out
the income tax deadline today,
the bureau of Internal revenue
received the following tearful
take-off on the Gettysburg ad
dress:
One score and seventeen
years ago our fathers brought
forth upon this nation new tax,
conceived in desperation and
dedicated to the proposition
that all men are fair game.
"Now we are engaged In
great mass of calculations, test
ing whether that taxpayer or
any taxpayer so confused and
so impoverished can long en'
dure. We are met on form 1040,
We have come to dedicate
large portion of our income to
a final resting place with those
men who here spend their
lives that they may spend our
money. It is altogether anguish
and torture that we should do
this, but in a legal sense we
cannot evade, we cannot cheat,
we cannot under-estlmate this
tax. The collectors, clever and
sly, who computed here have
gone far beyond our power to
add and subtract. Our creditors
will little note nor long re
member what we pay here but
the bureau of internal revenue
can never forget what we re
port here.
"It is for us taxpayers rath
er to be devoted here to the
tax return which the govern'
ment has thus far so nobly
spent. It Is that from these
vanished dollars we take in
creased devotion to the few
remaining, that we here highly
resolve that next year will not
find us in a higher income
bracket.
"That this taxpayer, under
paid, shall figure out more de
ductions and that taxation of
the people, by congress, and
for the government shall not
cause our solvency to perish
irom tne earth.
(CUPTTllhi, tIU)
Choice Beef Drops
14 Pet. in Past Month
Chicago (UJ& The American
Meat Institute said todav that
beef prices are still dropping,
with prime and choice grade
steers down 14 per cent in
the last month.
The AMI said the depllni. In.
eluded cattle and wholesale
dressed beef. During the last
month, prime dressed beef fell
19 per cent and choirs hf
12 per cent at wholesale. I
New York OP) Every once
in a while President Eisenhow
er has a way of putting an un
erring finger on the American
heart. ,
He did that recently when he
took time out from internation
al worries to pay a tribute to
the old-fashioned country store
keeper in a chat to the Ameri
can Retail Federation. ,
; itecauing nis own warm
memories of the country stores
of his boyhood "the social
centers of our time" he told
the retailers of today:
"Man does not live by bread
alone . . . What are you doing
to give the kids that are six
years old to twelve similar
memories? . . . Memories that
will live with them ... I hope
that the American retailers will
not forget to sell memories." '
There Is no doubt that the
kind of country store. in which
Abe Lincoln learned to know
people famous for its checker
players, pot-bellied store,
cracker barrel and rat cheese
is getting as rare as the cigar
store Indian. .
It has given way to that vast
cathedral of commerce, the su
permarket, in, which throngs
shop, to soft music, every buy
is a bargain, and every .pur
chase is pre-wrapped in i
package as sanitary as a saint's
dream. ,-.
There isn't anything wrong
with - them. . Mass shopping
probably is a natural aftermath
of mass production. But they
do sell more bargains - than
memories,
In between the old country
store and the two-lane super
market. However, are thous
ands and thousands of neigh,
borhood stores across America
which are a kind of a compro
mise. They are more likely to
give credit than bargains, but
tne customer is treated as a
friend, and when a kid comes
in with his family's meat or
der the butcher delights him
with a free slice of baloney.
eaten on tne spot.
My dad ran that type of
store for almost 30 years. Some
small shopkeepers develop a
grudge against supermarkets,
but dad never did.
"Any man who can't open a
grocery store right next door
to a supermarket and do all
right, doesn't belong in busi
ness," he said. "But if he does,
he will have to sell service.
Some people will always want
personalized service, and will
pay for it."
The only thing Dad ever had
against the supermarkets was
that they were so spick-and-
span his own customers finally
forced him to take the saw
dust off his floor. He was an
old-timer and loved the feel
of sawdust under his feet, and
By HAL BOYLE
he thought a grocery store
without sawdust was like
lady going to church in
bathing suit. ,
Dad had known hunger in
his youth and couldn't turn
away anyone hungry. When
jobless customer had so big a
tab he was too embarrassed to
come in himself, . he would
send one of his kids to the
store with an order, knowing
Daa would always fill the bas
ket.
But Dad had his own philo-
sopny about credit.
iou can give it il your
store is m a working class
neighborhood," he said, "be
cause a poor man, after being
out of work, will pay up his
grocery bill as soon as he lands
a job. But in a big shot neieh
borhood the last man they Dav
is tne grocer."-
When a family breadwinner
nad been sick or out of work
for a long time, Dad would see
tnat his kids got to a movie or
circus along with the other
neighborhood children. He
couldn't stand to see them un.
happy and left out of things,
when it wasn't their fault
times were bad. :
Today I am not sure wheth
er it was Dad's personalized
service or his extension of
credit that kept him in bust
ness so long. I do know that
it the red ink that was on his
ledgers when .he .died was
transformed to black ink on
his heavenly credit sheet
well, he has a high rating now.
I like to think there are at
least a million other store
keepers Just like my father
6tm in business . . . And don't
you know one, too?
Body of Lost Child
Found in Willamette
Portland OP) An all nieht
searcn tor jay K. Pesceone, 6,
ended Sunday morning when a
companion led Dolice to a lnt
raft in the Willamette River.
The body was found in the
water nearby.
The companion. Larrv nttn
9, at first disclaimed any know
ledge of the vouneer hnv'
wnere aoouis ana said he had
left him playing in the woods
earlier Saturday.
nut Sunday morning, after
being questioned bv nnlirp he
:u mem 10 tne log raft and
saw Jay had fallen in while
xney were lishing.
Aurora Jersey Gives
618 Pounds of Fat
Lawrence and Robins, Auro
ra, are the owners of a regis
tered Jersey cow that has re
cently completed a herd im
provement registry production
record of 11,523 pounds milk
containing 618 pounds butter
fat at the age of 11 years and
three months. -
The official record was made
by Hester Sybil Lady Iota and
her tests were supervised by
Oregon State College for The
American Jersey Cattle Club,
Jersey., breed registry organi
zation located at Columbus, O.
In terms of a production record
made at a mature age on a
twice-daily - milking, 305 day
basis, this record is equivalent
to 12,906 pounds milk contain
ing 692 pounds butterfat.
Governor, Archbi
On Portland Program!
Portland HP) Gov p, ;,
Patterson and the Most !?!
Edward D. Howard, archbi.'
of Portland, spoke SuS
night at the banquet S
closed the 29th annual com-'
Hon of the Archdlosesan
cil of Catholic Women. '
During their business seuinl
Sunday, the 275 delegateVfri "
Western Orecon X-f.?on
resolution urging the LeaLi,
Jure to , approve civil riT
legislation. They asked th,. .3
persons be granted equal riihi.
to accommodations and facSt
ties. ,
Police Seek Man Wh T
Assaulted Baby Sitter I
Portland UP) Polio.
tinued to search Mondav f,?
young man who assaulted
iH-jrcoi-uia uuoy sitter.
The girl said the man fnvj
his way into the house early
Sunday when she went to in
vestigate a noise on the nn.u
He beat her and carried i,
to the back yard where the
sexual attack occurred, polk,
quoted the girl as saying.
Her screams, when she A
gained consciousness, aroused
neighbors who called police.
Czechs to Quit Work
5 Minutes for Gottwald
Vienna, Austria (JP) Prague
Radio said thousands of mourn,
ing Czechoslovaks began pan.
ing by the bier of Presiri.r,i I
Klement Gottwald in th I
Gothic Spanish Hall of Hrad. !
cany Castle at noon Monday. I
' A state funeral will be hiM
on Thursday for the Dictator-
resident or uommunist Czech, i
oslovakia who died on Satur.
day. All work will be stopped l
throughout the country for the I
opening five minutes of the l
services. The body will lie i
state in the castle until then. .
Salem 30 Years Ago
March 16, 1923
Whether the three members
of the fair board who resigned
yesterday were ousted or just
natuarlly separated them
selves from the body 'is diffi
cult . to determine. A. C,
Browne, Portland: James
Linn, Salem, and H. L. Wal-
thers of Medford have quit.
Will T. Kirk, member of
the state industrial accident
commission, handed his resig
nation to Governor Pierce this
morning.
.
S. H. Van Trump, Marion
county fruit inspector, reports
60 to 70 percent of the straw
berry patches in this locality
lnlected with weevil. T h i
pest, first detected at Corval-
lis about two years ago, has
become . a serious problem
with growers of strawberry
pianu tor exportation. Thus
industry shipped 3,000,000
plants to California in 1929.
Miss Esther Parounaeian.
Willamette senior, has been
chosen queen of May day and
junior week-end festivities.
BEN MAXWELL
from Salem, have enlisted is
the U. S. navy since the es
tablishment of a recruiting of
fice here last November 12. '
V. R. Snyder. Polk countv
treasurer, has resigned and
nis place will be taken by
Harry B. Cos per, former dep
uty. Frty men, the majority
Marion County Sunday
School association, Fred De
Vries, president, opened lt
24th annual convention in the
First Methodist church of Sil-
verton this afternoon.
Regardless of poor crop
conditions in 1922 flax grow
ers in this locality are not dis
couraged and may.be expect
ed to Increase acreage this
year. ;t
!
A. M. Dalrymple, Marios
county farmer, has bees
placed in charge of the com
missary department at the
penitentiary.
Rats in Salem are estimat
ed to do $80,000 worth of
damage annually. If the city
could be freed of these petti
the saving would pay off the
recent $500,000 school bond
issue in ten years.
.
W. F. Turner, spokesman
for the Oregon Electric rail
road, says the line is on the
brink of financial ruin and
will have to stop operations
or go into the hands of a re
ceiver. Loss of revenue to
stage line competition is
blamed for the road's finan
cial dilemma.
DR. MORIS SPEAKER
Silverton The Brother.
hood of Trinity Lutheran
church of Silverton has
ed as guest speaker for its
March 27 meeting Dr. Stanley
Moris, Lutheran medical mis
sionary to Africa.
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