Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, April 17, 1953, Page 4, Image 4

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    Friday, April 17. 1983
Pag 4
Capital AJournal
An Independent Newspaper Established 1888
BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor ond Publisher
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G.O.P. FACTIONALISM RISES
One surprising thing about the current Washington
scene is that the Republicans in congress are handling
Eisenhower's cabinet members just as roughly as they
handled Truman's official advisors after they won control
of the congressional committees in 1946.
Several cabineteers have felt the power of unfriendly
solons on Capital Hill. Wilson was put on the pan and
lorcea to sell his General Motors stock. Benson has been
under fire repeatedly for his farm policies. Weeks, the
commerce secretary, faces a searching probe for ousting
the chief of the bureau of standards. Durken, the labor
secretary, is hardly listened to at all.
But possibly most serious of all because foreign policy
is so crucial, is the rapid deterioration of relations between
Secretary of State Dulles and the senate, which plays top
role in foreign policy because it must ratify treaties.
McCarthy's one man war on Dulles has been amply pub
t licized, but McCarthy is getting plenty of help from other
senators, some on tne foreign relations committee, sucn
as Mundt of South Dakota, Bridges of New Hampshire
and Ferguson of Michigan. These Republican senators
object because Dulles hasn't made a house cleaning at the
state department, but has left in office hundreds of offi
cials who were there during the Truman-Acheson regime.
iney have summoned Dulles before them for question
Ing and will question him further. If he fights back they
may trim his appropriation. If he doesn't he will lose
prestige at home and abroad. And the senate may pass
the Bricker proposal to hamstring the treaty making
power oi the administration.
In short, the Eisenhower administration seems in for
rough treatment from its own party members in congress,
which are evidently out to provide the Democrats with
plenty of ammunition for the 1954 campaign.
Up to a point a searching, critical attitude in congress
is to be applauded, as a welcome change from the "me
too attitudes of the past. But a fractious, obstructive
attitude can only discredit the whole Republican setup, in
congress as well as in the administrative departments, and
bring the Democrats back into power sooner than they
snoum alter their ZO-year tenure.
EISENHOWER'S CHALLENGE
President Eisenhower's challenge to Russia to show
that it really wants world peace it has been mumbling
about to prove their will for peace by ending the Korean
war, luting tne iron uurtain from satellite countries and
joining a world disarmament pact that would outlaw
atomic warfare. It has had a favorable reaction all over
the world except in communist countries. Even there the
reception is less vitriolic than customary.
Even if Russia rejects the Eisenhower peace proposals,
which is probable, he has won a psychological victory. He
has taken the peace initiative from Soviet Premier George
m. Maientcov, called his hand and put it up to the Krem
lin to take the next step. If Russia stalls, the allies can
use Ike's offer for world propaganda against communism.
There is not much optimism that the Kremlin will
accept for hitherto Russia has blocked most such starts
to peace and disarmament since the creation of the United
Nations, and is still blocking an Austrian peace treaty
and unification of Germany and renewing Red pressure
in Southern Asia. But recently surprise reversals of
some of Stalin's policies by Malenkov, as in Korea, give
some hope of at least partial cooperation.
It may be that the struggle for power in the Kremlin
among Stalin's successors, and popular opinion in Russia
will force other concessions but time alone will tell. There
.. cannot be much enthusiasm in the Kremlin for Eisenhow
er's proposal to use the money saved on arms, and spend it
for raising the standards of living in backward and de
pressed areas on a world scale, for the communists depend
on hunger and discontent to spread their cause by infiltra
tion, propaganda, tyranny and perpetuate it by bloody
purges.
The Kremlin all along has rejected measures proposed
for peace and disarmament and isolation, though promot
ing fake peace talks and little action and there is no indi
cation of abandoning world conquest for communism.
The Eisenhower address was the finest he has yet made
and if it secures Russian cooperation for peace, will rank
high in history, for it reflects the hopes of the American
goverment and people.
BRITISH CUT INCOME TAXES
While the United States is talking about an income
tax reduction the British have gone ahead and done it
with slashes ranging from five to 17 per cent, effective
with the fiscal year that began April 1.
The purchase tax, which is the same as our sales tax,
has been reduced 25 per cent. This levy was far hieher
than any ever levied in the U.S. on what the Britons re
gard as luxury goods, autos; radios, T-V sets, refrigerators
and the like. The purpose was to discourage purchase
as much as to raise revenue.
The British had become under Labor rule the highest
taxed people on earth and their Conservative opponents
have continued the setup with little change until now,
because the government was hard pressed for revenue.
Announced purpose of the reduction is to encourage
people to work harder and riBk more by allowing them
to keep a little larger slice of what they produce. The
British tax was clearly retarding initiative, both by indi
viduals and corporations. Workers were reluctant to
accept overtime, which usually put them into a higher
tax bracket People with money said "what's the use?"
and let it lie idle, since the government would take most
of the return anyway.
Britain has gone lartncr tnan the Un ted Statm n
socializing incomes, and has suffered the inevitable re
sult, drying up of initiative. So it was natural that Brit
ain would draw back once the effects were clear. It now
remains for us to do the same thing, but congress better
get our national expenses ana receipts into line first.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Ike Went to One Party
That Wasn't Publicized
BY DREW PEARSON
Washington President Els
enhower has attended only two
private parties since he took
office; one the much-publicized
reception at the home of Sen
ator Taft, the other an unpub-
llclzed party at the Fort Myer
home of Gen. Omar Bradley
where he met five famous
godchildren. They were:
D wight Elsenhower Marx,
Omar Bradley Marx, George
Marshall Marx Bedell Smith
Marx, and Rosey O'Donnell
Marx. ... All are children of
toy manufacturer Louis Marx,
who named them after five
famous generals of the army.
The godfathers were present
at the Bradley home to greet
their godchildren. . . . Contrary
to some reports, Ike is not a
stockholder in the Marx Toy
company, though he did invest
in the CharmaU Lipstick com
pany, organized by Marx after
the war. The Investment did
not prove a bonanza.
Scared Pat McCarran Rus
sell- Forbes, acting general
services administrator, who so
badly wants the Job of perman
ent administrator, is a lifelong
democrat from Tampa who's
been trying to make the Ike-
ites think he's an adopted re
publican. One of his first acts
was to fire Mrs, A. Mitchell
Palmer, one of two surviving
widows of the Woodrow Wilson
cabinet. . . . Ex-Sen. Harry
Cain of Washington got to be
such a nuisance calling at the
White House that Ike finally
appointed him to a short term
on the subversives board. . . .
Estimates of married midship
men at Annapolis range from
80 to 200. Midshipmen are
honor bound not to get mar
ried, If caught, they're fired.
Sen. Pat McCarran Is so
scared that young Tom Mech
ling, who almost defeated Sen
ator Malone, will run against
him, that McCarran's political
cohorts have passed a special
bill aimed at barring Mechling
from holding office in Nevada.
It prohibits anyone from hold
ing Nevada office without five
years domicile In the state.
Mechling married a Nevada
girl, has lived there a couple
of years. ... (If McCarran's
new law applied to divorces,
Reno would starve.)
Planted Press Stories It's
been 26 years since a back
ground state department press
conference backfired as badly
as that of John Foster Dulles
in which he recently indicated
me united States would aband
on Chiang Kai-Shek and draw
the Korean peace line at the
narrow waist of the peninsula.
A similar ruckus occurred in
1927 when Robert E. Olds,
undersecretary of state for
Frank B. Kellogg in the Cool'
ldge administration, called in
Kirke Simpson of the AP, Lud
well Denny of the UP. and
Mauritz Hallgren of the INS.
planted a story that Russia
'Babe' Zahorias
Goes Under Knife
Beaumont, Tex. UJB Fabu
lous Babe Dldrkson Zaharlas
undergoes major aurgery for
rectal malignancy today, but
the great woman athlete scorn
ed "not the least bit worried"
about the operation which may
end her Illustrious golfing car
ecr.
Hospital attendants said the
famed athlete was In "a won
derful frame of mind" for the
oraeai at notel Dleu hospital.
Dr. Robert M. Moore, pro-
irasur m surgery at the Unl
versuy of Texas Mivilr.l
School at Galveston, will per-
auiui uiw surgery.
threatened Nicaragua and the
Panama Canal, hence the land'
ing of U.S. marines in Nlcara'
gua. . . . Kellogg and Coolldge
were looking for an out on
their unpopular move of send
ing the marines into Nicaragua.
The UP and INS refused to
carry the story without hang'
ing it on a state department
spokesman, but the AP obliged.
. . . Dulles' recent background
talk was organized by Time
magazine's Jack Beal at the
Carlton hotel. One or .two
newsmen bowed out, including
the Washington Post's Ferdin
and Kuhn on the ground they
didn't want to be served up
confidential Information they
might learn elsewhere. . . .
Dulles talked freely for back
ground, not for attribution or
quotation. Published in that
form, it brought China-lobby
senators swarming around his
head.
Atomic Artillery Hassle
When Miss Helen Farr, librar
ian of the Madison (Wis.)
free" library, banned the
book "McCarthy, the Man, the
Senator, the Ism," local book
stores got so many orders they
couldn't fill them. . . . One of
the Greek shipowners whose
activities were pointed up by
this column (and still are un
investigated by- McCarthy)
made so much money he pur
chased the famed French gam
bling casino, Monte Carlo. . . .
Army has been hassling with
the atomic energy commission
regarding publicity for the
new atomic cannon, to be fired
at Frenchman's Flat May 7.
Army wanted to carry the
atomic shell across the contin
ent by easy stages by boat,
plane, train, truck so as to
get maximum publicity. But
the atomic energy commission
said "no." Then the army
wanted to carry a dummy shell
across the continent for publi
city purposes. ... So far no
decision. . . . Michael McDer
mott, for 30 years state de
partment press relations offi
cer and the trusted confidante
of presidents, will wind up his
diplomatic career In a new Job
as ambassador to El Salva
dor. But despite his long and
trusted background, he has to
be subjected to the usual all
out FBI test before he can be
appointed even to tiny Salva
dor.
Free Turkey Lunches Sec
retary of Agriculture Benson
warns that turkey-growing has
become such big business that
the number of birds must be
reduced IS per cent below last
year s record 44,500,000 gob
blers. Last year the govern
ment bought $27,000,000 worth
of turkeys, gave them to the
school-lunch program. ... In
other words, turkeys are get
ting to be like Henry Wallace's
little pigs, . . . Midshipman
William Sterling Cole, son of
(Continued en Pat S, Column II
Salem 30 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
APRIL 17. 1923
The entire grandstand of
Recreation park, Portland,
with 10,000 reserved seats, has
been sold out for the opening
of Pacific Coast baseball league
game to be played between
Portland and San Francisco,
- Motorists who steer with
their knees while engaged in
snuggling should not expect
sympathy from Police Judge
Poulsen. A young man arrest
ed Sunday evening with his
arms around a young lady
while he steered his car with
his knees pleaded guilty be
fore Judge Poulsen today and
was lined J5. '
An outstanding piece of in
dustrial beautification In Sa
lem is being accomplished at
Hunt's cannery where a sunken
garden Is being created and
the area landscaped for flower
beds,
Number one. volume one of
Weekly Bulletin, mimeograph
ed sheet published by the Sa
lem Chamber of Cor.merce, ap
peared Monday. Secretary
Wilson is managing editor, re
porter, printer and circulation
manager for this Bulletin that
reaches 473 members of the
Chamber.
Should Salem council ap
prove safety zones for down
town corners where traffic is
heaviest automobiles will not
find it necessary to stop while
street cars are discharging
passengers at these corners but
slow down to a speed limit of
10 miles an hour.
A net loss of $703,982.49 Is
reported by Oregon Electric
railroad for the year 1922.
Curiosity was aroused yes
terday by antics of Salem high
schools going through pre-in-itlation
prescribed for member
ship in the Friars club. Some
of the youths were seen sitting
around the drinking fountain
at the corners of State and
Liberty streets. Others appear
ed to be fishing in the horse
watering trough near the Ladd
& Bush bank. When passers
by asked why and wherefore
the only answer the boys would
give was "I am my father's
son."
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Cigar Smoking Italian Star Likes Skyscrapers
Because of Insufficient funds
the department of war may
not assign fire patrol planes
to Oregon this year. Fire pa
trol planes have operated over
Oregon for the past four years.
Ivan Martin, representative
6f musicians who wish to form
a second band in Salem, has
been granted permission by the
council that will allow his
group to rehearse in city hall.
Sunnyside Election
Sunnyslde A special elec
tion will be held at the Sunny
side school house Saturday,
April 18, from 2 to 8 p.m., on
a proposal for a $35,000 bond
Issue to construct an addition
to the building.
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The name, Smith or KouIcjj, O'Brien or toper,
McTavish or Bernstein each is a great nam
if the person blessed with it makes it ol
It is our responsibility to preserve that good
name in the years to come.
funeral Service Since 1171
SAUM, MIOON
New York ( "I love your
skyscrapers they are like
stretching tentacles, pleading
for the sky," said the world's
highest paid actress.
Then Anna Magnant of Italy
leaned back in bed and took
a thoughtful puff on her cigar.
So I leaned back, too in a
chair by the bed and took a
puff on the cigar she had given
me.
It actually is called a cigar
Wo a slender plastic-tipped
clear no larger than a king
size clgaret and popular with
both men and women in parts
of Europe. Anna likes them
but smokes only two or three
a week.
"They are sent to me by my
favorite admirer my son,
Luca," she explained. Luca,
who is 11, is in school in Switz
erland. Anna, who recently complet
ed an Italian film called "Bel
llsslma," was so worn out by
her first five days in America
that when I called at her ho
tel suite she decided to be in
terviewed in bed.
She wore yellow pajamas
trimmed in blue. She has a
long midnight mane, framing a
face CI Roman gold, and as she
leaned back against the pillow
she looked like a tawny, well-
fed lioness violence in repose.
"First, I interview you," said
Anna. "You like Italian women?"
"Yes."
"Do you like me?"
"Yes."
That ended her interview. So
took up the questioning. .
"Do you like American
men?"
"I would like to marry one
Land find out."
If she does he'll be a lucky
fellow. Anna is reported to
get $125,000 a picture, plus
$1,000 a day overtime, and the
Italian income tax Is hardly
even the nuisance that a sales
tax is in this country.
One American snaahetti
manufacturer is said to have
phoned her and asked what she
would want to endorse his nro-
duct. "Oh, . about $50,000."
aid, Anna, and the startled
manufacturer murmured,
wrong number," and hung up.
Anna is willing to make a
film here, even at a financial
sacrifice.
"It depends on the artistic
freedom I would have." she
said.
"With me freedom is every
thing. I must be free."
A gleam came into her eyes
which look like two bb pellets
or spots of black caviar sunk
in amber pools. She is as tem
peramental as Tallulah Bank-head.
By HAL BOYLE
I like your New York," she
said. "It has more personality
than Paris. Rome lets herself
be loved like a woman. But
New York is fascinating, be
cause it Is so big end violent
like . . . like . . . some men.
"But it is so noisy. Two
pigeons on the leijge woke mej
They were husband and wife.
He was Jealous. She must have
betrayed him."
Anna, born in utter poverty,
now lives in a five-room pent
house built pn an old palace
in Rome. She says she pre
fers small towns, because she
has a fear of distance and big
ness, but loves to prowl cities
at night.
"At night a city is free to
live for Itself,' she explained.
"But in the daytime a city
only works for the people In
it"
As I started to leave Anna
exploded like a volcano. She
leaped to her feet, bounced up
and down on the bed, shook
hands, pulled a hank of. her
black hair across her face to
make a hitlerian moustache
and broke out in laughter.
Twisting her luxuriant hair
is one of her childlike man
nerisms. I asked her why she
did it.
"IT keeps me company ," she
said. "Goodbye. They make
me do too many things. Some
time I would like to come
back to this country when I
could be free to be free."
HENRY
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Film Satire On Americans
Cannes, France, CU.B Span
Ish movie' makers bowed to a
request from American actor
Edward G. Robinson today and
agreed to cut certain scenes
from their picture, "Welcome,
Mr. Marshall" during its show
ing at the Cannes International
Film Festival.
Robinson objected in partic
ular to a scene showing a U.S.
flag in a gutter. He is a mem
ber of the international jury
chosen to judge films at the 15
day festival which opened here,
yesterday.
The Spanish film satirizes
the U. S. Marshall Plan and
American tourists. Its makers
said cutting the offending
scenes would not ruin the story.
But they reserved the right to
show it in its entirety at a pri
vate screening for the press.
Jersey Club Meeting
The regular meeting of the
Marion County Jersey Cattle
club will be held Sunday, April
19, at 12:30 p.m. in Mayflower
hall on Fairgrounds Rd. Plans
for the spring show will be discussed.
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