THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Mtm, Oregon
Tneeday, March K 1958
Capital Journal
: An Independent Ntwspoper -Established 1 888 .
BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor and Publisher
GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus
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meketo St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Want
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typical McCarthy smearing
n, n.fv amIi Mlatinm committee after thor-
..,.1. ifivaiftmfinn flnnfirmed President Eisenhower's
nomination of Charles B. Bohlen to be ambassador to
Russia. Notwithstanding the staunch support given
Bohlen by Secretary of State Dulles and the president
himself, McCarthy is continuing m cnKwUii wu
tactics based, as Senator George says, on anonymous
letters, rumor and hearsay in the FBI's secret report to
the state department." None of it, Dulles says, Involves
nnn of Bohlen's loyalty and security. Yet Mc
Carthy wanta "a He detector test" . - . -. ,
thm Incident has demonstrated tne unsuDstan-
ut.A ,i,.r nr far that whenever McCarthy cracks the
whip the president and hia advisers jump and obey, and
that his defiance prevails in congress on matters affect
ing executive prerogatives. ,
Dulles has officially stated that Bohlen is "uniquely
oualified" for the Moscow post, especially since the succes
sion of Malenkov to Stalin's job and the increasing tension
of Soviet relations witn tne wesi ana me biiuckb on
American and British aircraft. The need is imperative
that the U.S. have a qualified ambassador at Moscow as
soon as possible, and the appointment of one is important
in a personal way ana we preeiaenrs prerogative 01 oi-
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An ambassador does not make foreign policies, though
his report may influence them. His is not the function
of a policy maker that function belongs to the president
end nis caDinei ana tneir xoreign expena.
Objection to confirming Bohlen was based on his de
fense of concessions made to Stalin by Roosevelt at
Yalta. That is not the issue for he was not chosen as a
policy maker. The secret pacts are denounced by the re
publicans on grounds that neither FDR nor HST had
legal powers to make them and that they were dupes of
Stolen when they did. Bohlen did testify, however that
Nationalist China should have been represented, instead
of ignored at Yalta and its territorial claims should not
have been vacated by wartime allies.
McCarthy has no valid case against Bohlen as the
senate will probably recognize it by his confirmation in
spite of McCarthyism.
THE 'SKYSCRAPER' BILL
A perennial piece of legislation, commonly known as
the "Skyscraper" bill was buried by the house of repre
sentatives Monday by an overwhelming vote.
This bill would have removed an excise tax exemption
granted to building owners who derive 85 per cent of
their income from rentals. This exemption was granted
to these building owners when the law was enacted in
1929 for t principal msont: i; ; , , i
' ' Tint, thai the bulldlnc owners Mid a heavy property tax
bated on a valuation that was at leut a third higher than the
.; avenge valuation piacea on ower property; ana, .
Second, that the building owners did not enjoy any personal
: property onset as oia owier corporation.
Rep. Lee Ohmart, chairman of the house tax committee,
who along with seven other members of the committee,
brought in a report recommending indefinite postpone
. ment of the bill, declared that the same reasons for the
exemption exist today that prompted the exemption back
in 1929.
Every time this bill has come before the legislature it
has been defeated. Until the equalization program now
being carried on statewide by the state tax commission
under which it is hoped to bring about more equity in
valuations of various types of property, the effort to
- bring about repeal of this exemption should be forgotten.
It is simply v waste of the legislators' time to make an
effort to do something that it is generally agreed cannot
be done until the equalization program baa been com-
pleted. :
GOOD NEWS FOR SALEM
The public does not yet know what the sale of the
government alumina plant here to the Harvey Machine
company will mean in terms of future production and
payroll and probably the buyers do not know either, to a
certainty. '; v.
But the plant was doing no one any good in government
hands, and the buyers expect to use it or they would not
have agreed to the $825,000 purchase price, so we are
assured an industry where we have none at present.
And it appears to be an industry with a future. If
alumina can be made from local clays instead of imported
from distant parts of the world at a competitive price
a large expansion seems likely. The buyers are obviously
laying a substantial wager that the project is economic
ally feasible.
So Salem has taken an important industrial stride, the
second so far this month. The Moore Business Forms
company earlier announced that it will virtually double
the size of its plant here.
Salem is on the way.
LEGISLATORS as Seen by Murray Wade
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Eager Beaver Public Relations
Firm Gets Railroads in Dutch
Y DREW PEARSON
Willys Merges
With Kaiser's
New York (U.M Common
stockholders of W i 1 1 y i-Over-land
Motors, Inc., meet April
34 to vote on a merger with
the Kaiaer-Frazer Corp. that
will make the new firm the
fourth largest automotive man
ufacturer in the world.
Negotiations were completed
lait night for purchase of Willys-Overland
for an estimated
$62,300,000, by the Kaiser Ma
nufacturing Corp. wholly-
owned subsidiary of Kaiser
Frazer. Edgar F. Kaiser, president
of Kaijer-Frsier, said the mer
ger is the biggest of its kind
in the history of the automo
tive industry.
The new firm will rank
fourth In size behind General
Motors Corp., Ford Motor Co.,
and Chrysler Corp. It pushes
Studebaker Corp., the present
fourth-ranking auto maker, In
to fifth place.
The transaction is subject to
approval by Willys-Overland
common stockholders and by
the Reconstruction Finance
Corp., which has 948,417,000
in loans outstanding to Kaiser-Frazer.
Millions Saved, Is
Post Office Promise
Washington AMD A post of
fice department plan which
would improve rural postal
service and save the taxpayers
millions of dollars" at the
same time ir scheduled to get
under way April 1.
Postmaster General Arthur
E. Summerfield announced the
reorganization plan yesterday.
It would establish new rural
free delivery routes and revise
other RFD and star contract
routes to conform with popula
tion shifts and highway im
provements since World War
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Washington. A new chap
ter in the battle between the
railroads and the trucks has
just been revealed in a suit
brought by the Pennsylvania
Motor Truck association
against 31 eastern railroads
and against the eager-beaver
public relations firm of Carl
Byoir & Associates.
It indicates that the Byoir
firm has got the railroads Into
a neck of trouble. For the way
this high-powered public rela
tions office went about influ
encing public opinion was by
paying a member of the New
York State Federation of Wom
en's clubs, by subsidizing a
newspaper columnist, by put
ting money behind the Citizen's
Tax League of New York, and
by paying the expenses of a
member of the Maryland state
highway commission. '' ' -
WHAT DID THEY KNOW?
How much the eastern rail
roads knew about the opera
tions of . their public-opinion
molder has not been clearly re
vealed in the court battle a
battle which may result in
some moves by congress.
However, the railroads must
have known that Carl Byoir
was Investigated by the Me
Cormack . committee prior to
Pearl Harbor for being a pro
pagandist from Nazi Germany,
and that official testimony re
vealed that, the.. Byoir firm
"handled the contract .with the
German tourist bureau with
the fee for service set at $6,000
a month . . . The contract was
secured with the help of
George Sylvester Viereck (lat
er sentenced to six years In
Jail for being a Hitler agent)
. The committee linos tnat
the services rendered by Carl
Byoir Associates were largely
of a propaganda nature."
The propaganda technique
which Byoir used on behalf of
the eastern railroads, now
spread out in sworn testimony,
shows the following amazing
moves to Influence or bam
boozle public opinion. -
1. Bessie Q. Mott, former.
chairman ox ine puduc anairi
committee of the New York
State Federation of Women's
clubs, received $500 monthly
from Byoir to make a series of
speeches attacking the truckers.
3. Byoir paid "expenses" to
Clinton H. Johnson, public re
lations director for the Mary
land state highway commis
sion, at the same time the
highway commission was con
ducting crucial tests to deter
mine what effect heavy trucks
had on highway maintenance.
8. Sworn testimony . by
Byoir employee C. Colburrt
Hardy reveals that Byoir paid
newspaper columnist J. Joseph
Grlbbins about $250 for "re
search" on truck damage to
highways and helped promote
sale of Grlbbins' column. In a
Byoir Interoffice memo, Grlb
bins was described as valuable
"because he has never been
known to operate as a front
man In the past."
- 4. Byolr's firm prepared
anti-trucking speeches for Ar-
temus Leslie, Pennsylvania in
surance commissioner. New
York State Assemblyman Leo
Noonan also received speech-
writing help. .
5. Testimony reveals Byolr's
outfit bought, printed, and
mailed thousands of post cards
in the name of the Pennsyl
vania Association of Township
Supervisors. This la a group
representing the small towns of
Pennsylvania.
6. The Citizens' Tax League
of New York also came to the
support of the railroads. The
league was receiving about
$300 per month from Byoir
through its director, Mr. Men-
lH. '
7. Byolr's firm helped of
ficials of the Ohio state depart
ment of highways In gathering
anti-truck material. And when
the department's public rela
tions director, Harold Cohen,
made a trip to New York, By
oir picked up the tab.
USING THE FARMERS
An Interoffice memo of June,
1951, to Jerry Swinehart, presi
dent of Carl Byoir tc Associ
ates, from Reynolds Girdler, a
staff, member working on the
railroad account, sheds further
light on the Byoir technique.
"When the (railroad) presi
dents decided to embark on
this program, they decided that
change in their tactics was
abandon completely attacks by
the railroad industry on truck
ing subsidies, and, in their
stead, carry on the fight by
means of other affected groups.
This meant, in the final analy
sis, involving other people and
getting ; them to fight your
battles.
"Obviously, the only people
that you could involve directly
were people who had some rea
son to do something for the
railroads.:.- ' f
"vAa an example, we were
able to . mobilize the farm
groups partly out of railroad
association with certain farm
leaders, but mainly through the
deal we made in support of the
farm radio network. Everyone
understood the quid pro quo,
so the alliance was a strong
and reliable one." (The rail
roads had purchased time from
an upstate New York radio net
work owned by nine farm or
ganizations.) , . .''
"We formed - the Empire
State Transport League in New
York because we needed an or
ganization that could legiti
mately mail all types of propa
ganda on the general subject
of trucks and highways."
The memo then recites some
of the problems involved, In
stirring up the public against
the truckers.
"We went first to Charley
Symington of Symington
Gould. Everyone In the rail
road business told us Charley
would do anything to help the
railroads. Charley ducked the
Job neatly. Others ' either
ducked out entirely or promis
ed to do things they never did.
We wound up with a few fel
lows, some of whom allowed
their names to be used, but
that was all.
"One motor club we tried to
get was largely owned by a
director of the Erie Railroad.
We tried to get Johnston, presi
dent of the Erie, to speak to
his director and get that motor
club to join the fight. We
never heard another word."
The 1951 memo concludes
with a recommendation that
the railroad presidents be urg
ed to show more interest in the
campaign so their subordinates
would be more cooperative. .
Thus developed the million-dollar-a-year
campaign to "ed
ucate" the American public.
(OopnUhi, its J)
OPEN FORUM
Takes Gloomy View of
Trend Toward Cities
To the Editor:
In an editorial In early
March captioned "Declining
Farm Population," the author
lauds such a migration, ana
contends there Is nothing to be
alarmed about
The good editor's interpreta
tion on this vital matter Is as
far removed from the truth
and the general good of our
country as would be a land
scape in Peru compared to one
In Pennsylvania If you will.'
Cities always were consider
ed cemeteries for humanity.
The city dweller misses that
closeness to nature which is a
symbol of. faith and a reminder
of eternal values. They miss
life's yearning for itself. That
reaching out and at least touch
the fingertips of nature.
In the depth of himself he
loses that feeling of kinship
with all life and of participa
tion in its mysterious process
as It were that feeling of being
an instrument of God.
Unfortunately, gullible greed
has brought to bear a totalita
rian philosophy of Survival of
the fittest upon the farmer as
well as upon other enterprises.
In this city migration trend,
farm real estate debts have
risen, longer hours of work for
the farmer have ensued, fewer
hours of work for the city
dweller. Where does this leave
UsT -
Instead of a higher standard
of living, it; has produced a
higher plane of mechanized
non-profit living for the farm
er. It is a gala day for the
farmer if he can buy a new hat
that he can call his own.
We suppose the editor's next
consolation to the farmer will
be that today he lives longer
than those of the 18th century.
Yes, true, if we didn't how else
could we pay our taxes!
EDW. HAMMER,
Mt. Angel, Route 1.
TAPE RECORDER
(Albany Democrat-Herald)
The Roseburg News-Review
says the circuit court of Doug
las county is about to install a
tape recording device to re
cord the proceedings of the
court.
This Is designed to take the
pressure off the court report
er, who now takes a steno
graphic report of everything
that is said and done in the
court. It's a tough job, and
recesses are often called to give
the hard-worked stenograph
er a chance to rest his hand.
It's still probably a long
way in the future, but no
doubt the time -will come
when the court record will be
completely kept by mechan
ical process. This would save
much time in the completion
of the report, since part of the
taped record could be typed
while the recorder was still
operating quietly in the courtroom.
Salem 51 Years Ago
y KEN MAXWELL
March 34, 1903
Is anticipating
explosions that will shake the
treasury department to its very
m j.lnn . Cinm nfflelal in
UIIUIIMMinwi -
charge of certain construction
at a yearly salary oi juuu u
building himself a $50,000
house.' -
r.M it Williams, attor
ney general under president
Grant, was tooay onereo ui
Republican nomination for
m.vnr f Portland. Williams Is
now over 80 years of age. ,
: An editorial in the Capital
Journal states: "No matter
which faction controls the state
convention or the legislature,
the state house has got to be
cleaned up from top to bottom."
A small audience greeted the
"White Slave" Saturday owing
to the most inclement weather
of the season. But those who
attended enjoyed the play very
much, as it was the rich, old
stvle melodrama full of action
and good acting.
Harry Ralph and his father
yesterday rescued a dog that
had fallen into an uncovered
well on Fairmount hill. The
dog's barking and whines at
tracted Ralph and after hard
work this pet that belongs to
L. H. McMahan was saved from
drowning. There should be a
law against . leaving wells un
covered as children as well as
animals are liable to meet
death in such a trap.
J. H. Haas announces he will
be Republican candidate for
Marion county treasurer.
Marion county Socialist's
platform would put all pub
lic officials on a flat salary,
have government ownership of
the locks at Oregon City and
election of senators, the presi
dent and supreme judges by a
direct vote of the people.
A weekly paper called Salem
Weekly Democrat succeeds the
Salem Weekly Review. A. M.
Dalrymple and R. A. Harris
will be publishers. . Mr. Dal
rymple has been for some time
an employe on the Journal
force and is secretary of the
Democratic central committee.
He is a stalwart of stalwarts
and a very competent man.
Harris has been identified with
the Socialist party and is an
able writer. First issue of the
Weekly will be out next week.
Alderman Griswold has
taken hold of a live wire. He
is talking municipal ownership
of light. , . - ,
Meneley Concert company
will be in Salem April 1 at
First Methodist church.. . .
Jos. Meyer & Son, at the
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Hal Says They Don't Let You
Get Any Fun Out of Illness
ly HAL
vuf Vnrlc Mt Have you had
any fun being sick lately?
If so, I'd like to know how.
It seems to me there is a plot
. Waan f11nw from cet-
AWk w -
ting even the slightest pleasure
OUt OZ niS aumenu anyinuie.
Ani n, wtnr vour wife and
your best friends are all In on
the conspiracy.
. n iiri to he that a man. at
the onset of a sore throat, a
mild fever or an upset stomacn,
.....1.1 ka 4n him tli with a
sense of quiet satisfaction and
mild self-importance. -nu
vrilm would net and Dam
per him, the neighbors would
drop in lor a consoling cnai,
the family doctor would come,
feel his pulse, write a prescrip
tion and say, "Just stay in bed,
and you'll be as good as new
In a few days."
An illness then was a relax
ing, satisfying, restful exper
ience. All a fellow had to do" was
gargle a bit, or gulp some foul
tasting medicine every few
hours. The rest of the time he
could Just lie there and feel
klmaAlf tiAallnff nr listen to the
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radio or catch up on his read
ing.
Nobody blamed him for his
illness. Falling sick and get
ting well again were all part
of normal living. .....
Not today. It is an insult to
modern medicine if you get sick
now. You are being ungrate
ful to science.
You get a sore throat, and de
cide you will stay home and
nurse it. That's what you
think. You find out that peo
ple don't stay home sick any
more.'' ,-V;'
"You're not going to stay
nrminri here, mnaninff and
groaning and feeling sorry for
yourseu," says tne wue. -wnai
nr we no vine monev into that
hospital plan for?"
"But I ain't sick enougn to
go to a hospital"
"Oh, yes you are. You know
our doctor doesn't like to make
home calls anymore. He's too
busy. If I phone him, he'll
tell you to go to tne nospitai.
White Corner, "Salem's Great
est Store," offers as Easter
specials:. 5c standard Calico,
yard, Sc; Amoskeag gingham,
yard, 5c; bath towels, 15c;
Lonsdale muslin, yard, 714 c;
75c taffeta silk, yard, 59c; 50c
work shirts, 35c; 60c under
wear, 37c; men'a socks, pair,
15c; 35c henrietta, yard, 19c.
Rambler bicycles sold: by
Shipp End Hauser range In
price from $25 to $60 for chain
less models. i ,
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He can treat half a dozen pa
tients in the hospitals In the
time It takes him to make one
home call."
Well, who wants to go to
hospital with a sore throat?
Once they get you on your back
they might try to sell you an
ulcer. So you gargle with salt
water and plod weakly to work.
At the office you feel sure
of some sympathy. But what
happens? When one of the
other hired hands remarks you
look a bit peaked, you paw tlr
edly at your collar and mutter:
' "Ugh . . . throat . . . sore . . ..
ugh." .
. A look of intense science
spreads over his face.
"Hmra. It's probably psycho
somatic." "Probably whom?"
"f syenosomauc. . iuubi ius
now are both physical and
mental in origin. Have you
been feeling frustrated lately?"
"Certainly I've been feeling
frustrated lately. Do you think
I'm crazy? Anybody who Isn't
frustrated is nuts."
"Aha! That's just it. You
probably aaid something you
are sorry for. . And subconsc
iously you are expressing your
resentment at your throat.
That is why it is sore. If you
will -tint faea un to vour real
problem like' a man, the sore
ness will go away."
"Never mind my sore throat,"
you reply. "Whty don't you
go away?"
But you are afraid to men
tion your sore throat to anyone
else, for fear he will diagnose
it as a bottled-up urge to bite
your mother-in-law.
The truth is that everybody ,
today has the muddled idea
that sickness : is unhealthy.
That takes away all the fun and
gives you a guilt complex.
When you feel bad now, all you
can do is wait silently until
you feel better or die on your
feet, still gamely proclaiming,
"There's nothing wrong with
me, Mom." . j
Intestinal Infection
Killed Society Beauty
Los Angeles (U.B An autop
sy revealed an acute Intestinal
infection today in the death of
San Francisco society beauty
Conde Lee Benoist, heiress tot
a brewery fortune, who died
after being taken off the liner
President Cleveland.
Miss Benoist became ill
aboard ship yesterday and was
taken unconscious to the Queen
of Angels hospital here where
she died shortly after her arrival.
BY BECK
That Frustrated Feeling
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Acklin's Boolery
Acklin'j Jr. Boolery
Arbuckle's
Erich of New York
Ermel's Colonial Furniture
The Fashionelfe
Fronk'j House of Carpels
Cevurfz Furniture Co.
Hamilton Furniture Co.
Hutcheon Paint Co.
Johnson's Store for Ladies
Kay Woolen Mill Store
lady Fair Hal Shop
Margwen's
Ed Williams
HERE THEY ARE!
Salem Merchants
Represented
in Today's
EASTER
PARADE!
Miller's Dept. Store
Montgomery Ward
J. C. Penney Co.
Price's
Quisenberry Pharmacies
'Roberts Bros.
Rohland's
The Schlesinger Co.
Sears, Roebuck & Co.
The Smart Shop
Stevens & Son
The Towne Shop
Vacuum Cleaner Clinic
The Vogue
Card Shop