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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon
Thursday, April 2, 1953
Capital AJournal
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DAIRY INDUSTRY'S PROBLEM
Secretary of Agriculture Benson is in conference today
with 75 invited representatives of the dairy industry to
inaugurate a "self help" sales program to put all dairy
, products, including those in government warehouses
under the federal price support program which has cre
ated a surplus, as doles always ao.
The conference is seeking ways of preventing butter,
cheese and dried milk from piling up because the dairy
industry has priced itself out of the market and cheaper
substitutes are replacing them. This is due to support
prices boosted by congress at 90 per cent of parity based
on wartime markets. It is a repetition of the costly ex
periment along the same lines of a few years ago with
potatoes.
At the behest of the dairy industry, the agriculture
department has been supporting, and will continue for
another year to do so, prices of these products at 90 per
cent of parity. Parity is a farm product price designed
to be fair to farmers in relation to prices they must pay.
The dairy industry unloaded a record daily volume of
42V million pounds of butter, cheese and dried milk
onto the government Tuesday, the last day before the
support price was reduced because the parity price for
, butter in dollars and cents has declined.
The agriculture department has acquired all the but
ter available in the country, except small lots held
bv distributors. Product of all dairy products has been
greater than the quanity consumers will buy at support
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the extra production which now amounts to ISO million
pounds of butter, 61 million pounds of cheese and 185
million pounds of dried milk.
The sooner the dairy industry cuts out the dole pro
gram of visionaries, which increases the cost of living
by class legislation and solves its own pricing program in
a common sense manner, by increasing the market for
them or cutting down production to consumption require
ments, me Detier xor me inausiry ana uie government
and its taxpayers. In the long run the law of supply
and demand always prevails and paternalism fails.
LEGISLATORS as Seen by Murray Wade
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Martin Calls Ike to Account in Pleasant Way
EISENHOWER'S PRESS CONFERENCES
The presidential press conference has been going on
for years, with its ups and downs,' depending upon the
president, sometimes a great producer of news, some
times of entertainment, and sometimes of presidential
foot in mouth episodes. But always a factor in official
life at Washington, ever since T. R.'s day.
Many reporter! were fearful when Eisenhower became
president. A man of his military background was apt
to treat the conference as a briefing, in which he would
tell them he wanted them to hear and restrict questions,
particularly the embarrassing kind. Eisenhower, as a
newcomer to big league politics, gave them some reason
for this fear by his timid handling of the press during
the campaign.
But he has been opening up at recent conferences with
the reporters, how that , he's catching on his job, which
certainly includes press relations among its more im
portant phases.
Arthur Krock of the New York Times,' probably the
top news reporter in Washington, says "the president
is making news conferences into the most powerful con
structive instrument of information they have ever been.
And Krock's memory goes back through four or five
previous administrations, including that of F.D.R., who
was a past master at parrying with reporters. v
Bert Andrews of the New York Herald-Tribune,
another top hand in the Washington press gallery, adds
this significant comment: "Members of the president's
official family, and the president himself, have opened
un so freely that some of the lazier reporters wish they'd
never kicked about the earlier secrecy." Since that first
conference there has no limitation on the length of the
question period. Eisenhower, still a new man in politics,
leams fast and "comes clean."
THE SPECIALIST ISN'T ENOUGH
Big business is finally catching up with a disturbing
factor in mid-twentieth century America's educational
setup which has disturbed some of us so long we've just
about decided to quit fretting over what can t be helped,
We refer to the tendency of the colleges to turn out an
army of specialists, no one of which has a broad, general
picture ol the whole scene.
A current article in Fortune Magazine, the organ of
the managerial upper crust, says the nation's great enter
prises are disconcerted over the failure of the colleges to
educate this type of man. They are finding the trained
specialist useful, up to a point, but for top level leadership
they need a man with a broader outlook. .
This is what liberal arts, the "impractical" training is
supposed to do. Only it isn't doing this for so many, or
for enough if we may believe the Fortune article. The
percentage of liberal arts trained men is dropping and in
dustry is finding a vacuum where its future leadership
should be.
This is indeed the age of the specialist, but it must also
be the age of the man who knows something about many
things, even if he doesn't know everything about any one
thing.
AN ECHO OF THE MINK ERA
The wheels of the law move slowly, but they do move,
and justice has finally caught up with Merl Young, one of
the key figures in the corruption that marked the Truman
administration.
Young, a former R.F.C. examiner, who rose rapidly in
the fair deal helrarchy, was convicted Tuesday on four
counts of perjury and faces a prison sentence.
Yet Young's brief footnote in the history of the period
, will come not so much by reason of his own derelictions
ml bv being the husband of the lady who received the
$9450 mink coat and thereby ruined the reputation of
that innoeent inue animai.
Washington Speaker Joe
Martin is the taalett man in
congress to get along with, but
he alio has certain ideas on
how Job appointments should
be handled. They are not rad
ical Ideas, and in a half-ser
ious, half-joking way he ex
pressed his views to the highest
republican ' in the land
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
At a Monday-morning White
House conference, Joe remind
ed the president that it was
customary to let congressmen
and senators know in advance
before a Job was to be filled
in their state so they could get
credit for helping make it.
The speaker, however, didn't
come out with this directly.
He backed into it by asking:
Is it the policy of this ad
ministration to notify mem
bers of congress when appoint
ments are about to be made in
their districts?"
President Elsenhower re
plied that it was.
"Well, does that policy in
clude members of our own
party?"
There was a twinkle in the
speaker's eye, but Ike couldn't
quite tell what was brewing
behind the twinkle. He nodded
in the affirmative.
"Does that also apply to the
speaker of the house?" pur
sued the speaker.
"Yes," replied the president.
"Well, there were four ap
pointments in my district last
week," concluded the speaker,
and I had to read about them
in the newspapers. Do I have
to subscribe to every paper In
my district?"
Elsenhower turned to assist
ant president Sherman Adams
and, somewhat irritated, told
him to tighten the appointment
liaison with republicans In
congress.
CONGRESSMAN FROM
ALLEGAN
Congressman Clare Hoffman
of Allegan, Mich., now 77 years
old, is one of the stormiest re
publicans on capltol hill. His
acid remarks are shot at re
publicans as well as democrats,
and he it Just as likely to tan-'
gle with his own GOP leader
ship as anyone else.
Having reported on the
tempestuous activities of the
Michigan solon over the years,
I once offered him a chance to
even up the score and invited
him to write a guest column
while I was on vacation. He ac
cepted with alacrity and pro
ceeded to take me to the clean
ers in a column which was
duly published. Among his
mildest epithets were "deceiv
er of the people" . . . "pretends
to give exclusive information
wheih has already appeared
Y DREW PEARSON
. . . "giver off of effluvium col
loquially known as stink."
In view of the above, I
should not have been surprised
when at 8:50 the other morn
ing I was handed a subpoena
ordering me to appear at 10
a.m. before Congressman Hoff
man's special committee Inves
tigating undue influence re
garding small business.
I had got the congressman's
district in Michigan mixed up
and he was fit to be tied. This
was an error, which I shouldn't
have made and for which I
apologized. The congressman
comes from Allegan, a town
listed by the Encyclopaedia
Britannica as having 4,528 pop
ulation, not far from the east
bank of Lake Michigan and
about midway between Kala
mazoo and Grand Rapids. I
shall try to keep this straight
in the future.
Anyway, the fuss over the
congressman's district pretty
well obscured the basic point
of the story namely, whether
the air force was wrong, as
Hoffman ' contended, in not
awarding a big contract to a
very small Michigan firm not
equipped to handle it.
CRACKDOWN ON CLARE
Having made a mistake
about the geographic location
of the congressman's district, I
did not object to being hauled
on the carpet by the gentleman
from Allegan. However, some
other members of his commit
tee did, among them Congress
men Charles Brownson of In
dianapolis, a republican, and
Frank Karsten of St Louis,
democrat. They objected,
among other things, to having
sudden subpoenas issued with
out other members of the com
mittee knowing it and setting
up special subcommittees to
pry into anything the congress
man from Allegan wanted to
poke his nose in, without a vote
by other members.
Later, Speaker Joe Martin
took objection to this too and
bluntly told Hoffman to call off
his extracurricular activities.
What aroused Martin was
two things. First, he feared
that Hoffman's idea of hauling
in newsmen whom he didn't
like might set a precedent for
other committee chairmen to
subpoena anyone who wrote a
story congress didn't like. The
speaker feared an atmospnere
whereby no newsman would
dare criticize congress.
Second. Joe heard that the
congressman from Allegan had
gone off on an amazing tangent
and planned to investigate CIO
Influence in a democratic con
vention in Michigan in 1930.
This is a long way from prob
ing federal spending. And when
he speaker heard of this, he,
together with GOP leader
Charlie Halleck of Indiana, de
cided it was time to act.
The congressman from Al
legan was told that he would
go whistling for money to car
ry out his unauthorized investi
gations, if he didn't stop them.
Meantime, democratic Con
gressmen John McCormack of
Massachusetts, William Daw
son of Illinois, and Karsten of
Missouri demanded a show
down on why Hoffman was
wasting the committee's time
by an unauthorized Investiga
tion of something that hap
pened in the democratic party
in Michigan three years ago.
When the showdown meet
ing started, a majority of the
committee, including most GOP
members, were all set to pass
a resolution curbing Chairman
Hoffman's investigative pow
ers. However, rather than suf
fer a reprimand there were
news reporters present the
Michigan politico ate crow and
promised not to step out of line
in the future.
BREAK WITH MCCARTHY.
It was significant that the
first public rebuke to Senator
McCarthy from a leader of the
Elsenhower adminisl ration
came from Mutual Security
Administrator Harold Stassen,
an old political friend.
It was McCarthy who helped
mastermind Stassen's campaign
for president at the Philadel
phia convention in 1948, and
it was Stassen, in turn, who
came to Washington to support
McCarthy's charges against
Ambassador Philip Jessup dur-
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Two Classes in U. S. Now,
Dieters and Non-Dieters
By HAL
New York WV-America to
day is divided into two great
classes tnose wno om,
ihnaa who laulh at 'em.
Dieting began as a fad, now
is one of the nation's greatest
industries. It spread faster
than television, but doesnt
have as many good sustaining
programs.
The people who used to
laugh at Bernarr MacFadden as
a health fanatic because he car
rled carrots in his pockets now
try to find out where he buys
them. The empty stomach has
replaced the full dinner pan as
an American success symbol.
But, of course, it has to be fash
ionably empty.
A hungry man used to be a
financial failure. Today a man
of wealth who gets fat is re
garded as an anti-social wretch
who is deliberately plotting to
make his wife a widow.
This is odd, because for cen
turies in China a middle-aged
man's wealth was measured by
the size of his paunch. And he
remained remarkably free of
the heart ailments that ambush
the chubby executives in this
country. ,
Maybe onereason is that the
civilized Orientals found out
long ego that lying on a couch
and munching rice while listen
ine to a little lute music did
n't wear the heart out as fast
as chasing a golf ball.
But millions of Americans,
rlcll or poor, male or female,
now seem to feel that less food,
rather than less tension, is the
formula for a long life. They
no longer count sheep while
trying to cure insomnia. Makes
them think of food. So they
count calories jumping over a
fense the calories they plan to
eat tomorrow.
As a matter of fact, a zeal
ous dieter hardly can mention
food any more without a tinge
ing his confirmation fight over
appointment to the United Na
tions. '
Yet Stassen did not hesitate
to tangle vigorously with Mc
Carthy when the Wisconsin
senator barged into the Greek
ship negotiations with a face-
saving compromise for the
Greeks just as the Eisenhower
administration was working
on its own plan to bar Greek
ships from Iron Curtain countries.
The Maritime Administra
tion had also discovered a loop
hole in the sales contracts
whereby many of the Greek
ships, could be recaptured by
the United States. Since the
Greeks bought the ships from
Uncle Sam for a song, the last
thing they want is to surrender
them. - So naturally they
jumped at the McCarthy deal,
whereby they merely agreed
not to sail behind the iron
curtain again.
(CopxrUht, 1WJ)
BOYLE
of conscience. When one meets
another, he boasts, "Guess what
I had for lunch today? 350
calories and five minerals. You
should of Joined me."
If he finds that the has ex
ceeded his calorie quota, he
starts worrying and up zooms
his high blood pressure. Is that
good? .
It used to be said that it was
easier for a camel to go through
the eye of the needle than for
a rich man to enter the gatei
of heaven. Many a diet-lean
rich man now dreams fondly of
galloping through that needle
on horseback.
A Wall Street broker looks
like a piece of upright spa
ghetti as he scans his ticker
tape. The working man is go
ing in just as much for calorie-nibbling.
' He no longer
carries a toothpick. He is one.
The biggest danger to. a heal
thy, normal, happy, relaxed,
cheerful, easy-going fat man
now is that he will laugh him
self to death at the ex-tubbles
trying to live to be 100 on let
tuce leaves and vitamin pills. A
rabbit eats lettuce. Ever meet
one with a long beard?
One fat friend of mine has
an unusuai theory about the
dieting craze.
NO JOB FOB
THE LEGISLATURE
(Astorian Budget)
The state legislature is at last
considering a bill to empower
county courts to fix salaries of
county officials. Such a meas
ure has been needed hi Oregon
for many years. The legisla
ture has wasted much time at
each session on county salary
bills, , time which was needed
for the state's business. With
the salary power in county
courts' hands, the people til
ways have recourse to the bal.
lot if county court gets too lib.
erai.
"It's aU Just a housewives'
conspiracy to get out of kitch.
en chores," he said. "They
aren't trying to make their
husbands llvs lnn0i nn,-i
just trying to cut down on the
ume uiey spena cooking.
"They used to have to spend
at least four hours a day in
their kitchen. Now all a wife
has to do to fix a meal is to ax
up a few vegetables for a raw
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a few seconds over a lighted
uimcn. iinen dinner s ready.
his wife starve him to death
uiai way ougni 10 nave a sac
charine tablet over his grave
instead of a monument." &
ALL-TIME HIGH IN CANAL
Balboa U.R Truffle thrn,,i.
the Panama -canal reached an
all-time nigh during March
with 878 ocean-iolnr mui.
making the transit, it was an
nounced loaay.
Salem 44 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
April I, 10
Salem is on the eve of the
greatest horse show ever held
in the city. More than 100 en
tries were registered today,
ranging from clean-limbed
throughbreds to heavy draft
breeds. Cash prizes and special
premiums offered for winners
in tomorrow's events will
amount to at least $1000.
Charles W. Yannke will be
chief marshal for the day.
A. L. Brown has started a
suit against Yuen Wa & Co.
and Andrew Kane, their agent.
The complaint alleges that the
defendants team ran away
and coUlded with the plaintiff
who was riding a bicycle. It
Is also alleged that the team
contrary to city laws, was al
lowed to stand unhitched and
that through this carelessness
the accident occurred. The suit
asks $10,820 for damages.
The Charles E. Falk, three
masted lumber schooner en-
route from San Francisco to
Hoqulam, was blown ashore
north of the entrance to Grays
narDor yesterday.
Next Saturday morning state
jomcers or me Oregon Thresh
ers association will meet in Sa
lem for the purpose of organiz
ing county associations, me
state association is concerned
with obtaining better condi
tions for threshers, good roads
and improved bridges. There
are now ovc 80 threshing out
fits in Marlon county with an
estimated value of $3000 each.
At Salem restaurant: Meals
15c, board $2.75 a week.
Count Zeppelin took 14 pas
sengers on a successful flight
In his airship today.
Free wine for dining car pa
trons is now being supplied
with compliments of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee Si SL Paul
railroad.
An appeal has been filed In
the circuit court by the City of
Mt. Angel in the Anna Ullmen
vs. City of Mt Angel injunc
tion suit Judgement was giv
en the plaintiff in a suit for
ever enjoining the City from
using for sewage purposes a
certain ditch in front of the
plaintiffs house.
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road mare not afraid of street
cars or automobiles.
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