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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon
Wednesday; April 29, 195s
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BE CAREFUL DAYID
SLASHING FEDERAL EXPENDITURES
That the Eisenhower administration Is in earnest in
Its efforts to effect economy in all branches of govern
ment in order to balance the budget is daily being shown
by the departmental reorganizations and streamlining
announced and the slashing of proposed appropriations in
most of which congress is cooperating. Of course there
will be loud outcries from the log-rolling pork barrellers
as well as those eliminated from the swollen payrolls, but
that is to be expected.
The house went along with its appropriations commit
tee Tuesday, passing and sending to the senate $406,180,
843 for the Interior department for the fiscal year start
ing July 1. It was f201,230,057 less than the Truman bud
tret called for.
The public power group lost every effort to restore the
curtailed power funds for the southwest and Pacific
northwest A motion by Minority Leader Sam Rayburn
to restore (3,736,000 for operations of the Southwest
Power Administration, lost. 173 to 133.
Later, the house voted down an amendment to restore
14,808,000 of $16,900,000 the committee cut from funds
for power line construction by the Bonneville r ower Administration.
Also defeated was a proposal by Rep. Gracie Post
(D., Ida.) to restore $120,000 for a line in northern Idaho
and western Montana.
Main items in the Interior bill were $43,300,000 for the
Bonneville Power Administration; $13,000,000 for the
Bureau of Land Management; $53,369,000 for the Indian
Bureau; $133,146,675 for the Reclamation Bureau; $27,
750,000 for the Geological Survey; $19,976,218 for the
Bureau of Mines; $32,917,550 for the Park Service, $11,
210,600 for the Fish and Wildlife Service, and $34,922,300
for the Office of Territoritles.
DISCRIMINATION IN CONTRACTS
' Refusal by the U.S. Army Engineers to award a con.
tract for transformers and generators to be used at the
Chief Joseph dam in the state of Washington to a British
firm which was the low bidder came in for criticism in
parliament and elsewhere over there, and we think justly
The bids were called for December 1. The British
firm's bid was $6,238,000, and the lowest bid by an Amer
ican company was $7,170,000. The Army Engineers were
apparently embarrassed. They could not well award 'the
contract to a bid so much higher than the lowest, but they
rejected all the bids and will take new ones. This will
allow the U.S. bidders to get their pencils out again and
to whittle below their foreign competitor if they can and
till make any money on the job.
We realize that some will see a patriotic issue between
Americans and foreigners, but we do. not wiBh to argue
It here. If a wall should be erected against foreign electric
equipment the tariff is the place to erect it, not by dis
crimination in the awarding of government contracts.
And if we are to refuse to buy foreign goods what be
comes of our noble professions about helping other coun
tries help themselves 7 It Is also doubtful if we actually
lose anything by buying some of our equipment abroad
when the" price is right, for countries like Britain will
spend every dollar of U.S. exchange they can earn or beg
In this country.
Free flow of international trade has long been recog
nized as mutually beneficial, but we emphasize again: If
we don't want to trade abroad the tariff is the place to
build the wall. We shouldn't invite foreign bids on gov
ernment contracts and then turn them down when they
a,re lowest
DEMAND FOR PRISON PROBE
Now we have a demand by Howard Morgan, Democratic
state chairman, that charges he recites of use of prison
Inmates to clear private lands be investigated. It will be
recalled that former Warden O'Malley recently voiced
charges of irregularities in the use of prison labor in an
address at Eugene.
The public does not know what if any basis for these
charges exists. Both O'Malley and Morgan have "mo
tives" for wishing to discredit the present state adminis
tration, personal in the one case, partisan in the other.
They might be expected to put the worst interpretation
on what they've heard, or know.
' But there is bound to be suspicion when these charges
are bandied about and suspicion is demoralizing to the
public service. The board of control should wish to have
matters cleared, the guilty accused and brought to trial
if guilty they are, and unjust suspicions allayed if they
are without foundation.
The Capital Journal suggested right after O'Mnlley's
speech that a grand jury investigation of the prison sit
uation was in order. We still think so.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Life'II Never Be Same for
Lady Who's Outgrown No. 12
By HAL BOYLE
(From The Evening Star, Washington, D.C
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Interesting to Watch Ike's Golf Companions
Washington For years it
has been White Bouse cus
tom to publish the names of
presidential callers. This is
done on the theory that the
American people have a right
to know who talks to or tries
to influence the most impor
tant personage in the nation.
However, the White House
has declined to make public
the golfing partners of the
president except for an occa
sional senator such as Taft
on the ground that Ike's golf
ing partners would be hound
ed by lobbyists who would try
to influence the president
through his golfing partners.
Actually, tnose who golx or
visit with the president in Au
gusta or at the Burning Tree
club In Washington can vitally
Influence national policy.
For instance. William Far-
Icy, astute, charming president
of the Association of Ameri
can Railroads, visited with Ike
at Burning Tree recently. Far-
icy, one of the ablest and most
personable representatives of
big business in the capital, is
anxious to block construction
of the St. Lawrence seaway be
cause of its competition with
the railroads.
Every president of the Unit
ed States, so far, has been for
the St. Lawrence project. So
have such top republicans as
Dewey and Taft However,
Salem 54 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
April 29, 1S99
Miss Bertha Ketchum of Sa
lem has finished teaching a
even-month term of school at
Eola. Four wagon loads of her
Salem friends attended final
exercises that tilled the old
Kola church to capacity.
Mrs. Asa Wyman is in re
ceipt of a letter from her hus
band who has reached the
Alaskan gold rush point of
Dawson City. He received $1
each for every newspaper
taken In and from M to 17
dozen for eggs.
A government building at
the west end of Willson ave
nue would look well. Besides,
the government would not per
mit frog pond. It would keep
the premises in first class
shape. (Capital Journal of this
date carries an advertisement
signed by the treasurer of the
United States and asking for
a site where Salem postofflce
could be located.)
A 1 p.m. today 1740 bicycle
receipt had been Issued by
the sheriffs office to cyclists
eager to contribute toward
building bicycle paths In Mar
lon county.
Salem Markets Today:
Creamery butter, 20c a pound;
eggs, 10c a dozen In cash, po
tatoes, BOc a bushel.
"The greatest attraction a
young lady can possess Is a
shapely foot neatly encased In
$2.50 shoes. Lacy's new shoe
store, 94 State street.
"At the Sign of the White
Horse," E. H. Lamport. 289
Commercial street, manufac
turer and importer of harness,
saddles and horse clothing.
(Fred Lamport, Marion county
senator ana son oi e, s. Lam
port, states that the sign of
the White Horse, a paper
mache creation, became shop
worn and was discarded when
his father discontinued busi
ness in 1912. A similar relic
of horse and buggy times may
be seen in the F. E. Shafct'
leather store at 12S Commer
cial street).
Hits IOOF Name Use
n Cemetery Stories
to tne editor: It has come
to my attention that there has
been several articles including
photographs recently publish
ed in the Salem papers, telling
about sheep being turned Into
the Odd Fellows cemetery.
While I do not question the
truth of the reports about the
sheep, I do want to enter a
protest as to the cemetery be
ing labeled as belonging to the
Odd Fellows lodge, as title to
this ground was passed from
their hands several years ago.
It is only fair that you do as
much to undo the damage that
the news stories have done to
the Odd Fellows lodges in and
around Salem, as your stories
have done by publishing half
truths.
Your reporters being un
hampered by facts can really
put out a fine line of propa
ganda. Get the truth about this
episode, and place the blame
where it belongs, on the
shoulders of public officials not
upon the shoulders of the Sa
lem Odd Fellows.
Lynn Cram, Grand Master
Grand Lodge of Oregon,
I.O.O.F.
Medford, Oregon
Editor's Note Newspaper
stories have always used the
name I.O.O.F or Odd Fellows
cemetery because this is the
name by which it has always
been known here. This is the
first protest anyone in the
Capital Journal news room re
calls ever having heard. The
public has been repeatedly told
and was told in the stories of
the sheep episode that the
cemetery is now under county
city control.
Easy for Police to
Find This Lost Car
Minneapolis, Minn. (V.fO
When Wilbur Kelllson, of
Sioux City, la., reported to
police he left his automobile
In a downtown parking lot two
weeks ago and couldn't remem
ber which one, the cops picked
up the scent right away.
Kelllson had left 600 pounds
of fish in the car's trunk.
BY DREW PEARSON
Burning Tree Golfer Farley
apparently performed miracles.
For, after talking with him,
Bee told Senator Wiley of Wis
consin that he was opposed to
the seaway. Furthermore, he
used all the arguments of the
railroads against the seaway.
Wiley, who used to be coun
cil for the Milwaukee railroad
when Farley was counsel for
the Northwestern, recognized
the arguments immediately,
Wiley is a staunch advocate
of the project which would
connect the Great Lakes with
the Atlantic ocean. Unlnflu
enced by the president, he
proceeded with his St Law
rence hearings.
Later the president changed
his mind. He did not do so,
however, until after the news
leaked of his visit with per
suasive railroadman Farley at
the Burning Tree Country
club. After the leak Ike re
versed himself, lined up with
other presidents of the united
States for the seaway.
In other words, it looks as
if the traditional policy of
making public the names of
presidential callers, whether
at the White House or on the
golf course, was a good one.
(Lists of those cruising with
Truman on the Williamsburg
were published. Ike is substi
tuting the golf links for the
presidential yacht.)
Note: Publication of White
House callers and golfing part
ners carries out the spirit of
the lobbyist registration act
and) the foreign agents regis
tration act, namely that there
may be nothing wrong about
representing certain business
groups or certain foreign coun
tries as long as It's not con
cealed from the public.
Hostile Tldelands Mall
Elsenhower's senators are
not saying so publicly but
some of them are not at all
happy about the tldelands oil
policy of their administration.
The rrlall of Sen. Leverett
Saltonstall of Massachusetts,
for instance, is running 200 to
1 against him because of his
support for tldelands oil. Mas
sachusetts, of course, has noth
ing to gain from giving the
$300,000,000 offshore oil
wealth to Texas, California
and Louisiana, and the voting
public in a lot of these non
oil states has become pretty
well educated by the senate
filibuster.
Another thing worrying
some Eisenhower senators is
the president's failure to sup
port his own cabinet members
regarding the extent of the
tldelands oil concession.
Both Secretary of State
Dulles and Attorney General
Brownell were emphatic In
congressional testimony that
the three tldelands states must
not have title to more than
the historical boundaries
namely, three miles offshore
except In the case of Texas
and Florida which get 10 H
miles. In contrast, some tide
lands senators want 100 miles
or more offshore and the pres
ent bill leaves this to be de
cided in the vague future.
However, the president
queried by the senate regard
ing the deliberate vagueness
of the current bill, ducked a
definite stand. He did not
side with his two cabinet
members, worried that Russia
and Mexico might press simi
lar offshore claims.
"GIVEAWAY '
ADMINISTRATION"
Another problem worrying
republicans is the new trade
mark which the democrats are
cleverly conspiring to pin on
Ike's administration name
ly "the giveaway administra
tion." "
"You don't practice economy
by giving away national as
sets," argue the democrats,
"Nor does this giveaway pol
icy balance the budget"
Democratic leaders are al
ready preparing a list of so
called "giveaways" upon which
they will ring all the changes,
Here are some of them:
Synthetic Rubber Plants
There were built at a cost of
millions of dollars after Japan
cut off rubber from the Mala
yas and Indonesia. Now, with
the communists staging a new
drive into French Indo-Chlna
on the borders of this same
rubber area, the administration
is insisting' on selling these
rubber factories for about IS
cents on the dollar.
Synthetic Oil-From-Coal
Plant This experimental la
boratory at Louisiana, Mo., for
making oil out of coat cost the
government $75,000,000. How
ever the oil lobbies are op
posed, and Secretary of the In
terior McKay plans to sell ft to
private industry for a song.
Tldelands Oil Revenue
from this wealthy oil area
New York (flV-The great
landmarks of our lives are
rarely announced by the blow
inn of bugles.
We are made aware of
change within ourselves by
some odd moment of self-dis
covery, and are surprised to
learn that we are not what
once we were.
Thus a woman awakens one
fine morning, yawns and
thinks her day will begin as
usual. Then she finds that no
power on earth is any longer
able to pour or pull her into a
size 12 dress. Or, perhaps,
she is idly plucking her eye
brows and sees shining in the
mirror, a dangling thread of
silver, her very first gray
hair.
Her world has changed In
an instant. It will never be
the same again,
I had one of these shatter
ing moments of self-revelation
the other day. I was sit
ting at my desk typing out
notes for a speech on the love
habits of the porcupine when
a copy boy came up and said:
"We're getting up an of
fice-Softball team. What posi
tion do you want to play?"
would bring several millions
annually into the treasury, help
balance the budget. Democrats
plan to list the heavy oil-company
contributions to Ike's
campaign chest to show that
this is a political pay-off not In
the national interest.
Public Lands Western sen
ators ere already talking about
giving the public lands held by
the federal government to each
state. . I
Ducks and Salmon The
firing of Albert M. Day, head
oi wucuue and fisheries Bu
reau, at the behest of certain
private game-preserve owners
will be shown by the democrats
as a move to benefit the weal
thy few who can afford game-
hunting reservations.
Power Dams This may
turn out to be the biggest give
away of all. If the plan goes
through to turn government
power over to private utilities,
democrats will show that the
billions of dollars invested in
the dams by the taxpayers will
actually benefit the private
utilities. For all appropriations
have just been cut out of the
budget for building govern
ment power lines. This leaves
BEA cooperatives pretty much
out in the cold and the private
utilities in a monopoly position
to use the power.
So the new democratic slo
gan will be: "Republicans did
n't believe in Santa Claus
when Roosevelt and Truman
were helping the underprivil
eged of the nation. Now they
believe in Santa Claus for
their own friends." I
Copnltbt, Its
"I don't want to play any,"
I said, without thinking. The
copy boy walked away fast,
looking relieved. After all
he was trying to put together
a winning team.
But I was held by long, long
thoughts. In a single spontan
eous thoughtless sentence I
had terminated my career as
an office athlete. And that
dates a fellow as much as if
be were a container of milk,
with the day of the week
stamped on him.
Millions of Americans with
one foot in mlddleage keep
their other foot in youth by
indulging in office athletics.
Their breaking . bones and
aching muscles may cry,
"Sonny, you are growing old
er." But bones and muscles
are protesting liars as long as
a man's heart still sends mm
gallantly puffing up to field a
bunt.
If is only when he suddenly
discovers he doesn't want to
volunteer for the team at all
that age descends upon him
all at once, and he feels like
the one horse shay.
Softball has given me won
derful fun through the years.
set no records in the game,
although there was one year
my batting average rivaled
Babe Ruth's. ,
Editor's note: That was the
year Ruth quit
Loyalty to the office team
can cost a man a lot, as any
don't care much about having
the old man out spraining hi.
knee on Sunday. One aoftball
game years ago cost me con.
siderable peace at home.
My wife arrived in Paris on
a Saturday night on her firjt
trip abroad. Our Paris uu
had an important softbsll
game scheduled for' Sunday
and they were short one play!
er.
Bright and early next morn,
lng a voice shouted outside our
hotel window: .
"Mrs. Boyle, can Boyle com
out and play with us?"
Frances turned and looked
at me In utter disbelief.
"The team really needs me,
dear," I mumbled. I jumped
into my clothes and ran out
quickly. Well, It was a tough
game, but we finally Won 6-3
in a late rally.
The team, hot and sweatv
all came back to the hotel, and
wa fnnffht thft crnmA nil .
o-- - d vvcr
again as we celebrated with
champagne.- Frances just star.
ed at us in silence. When tli
other players left, I saw the
expression in her eyes and
said lamely:
Honey,--1 knocked in th
winning run."
"Do you realize," she an.
swered, "that you are prob.
ably the only man in history
heartless enough to desert hit
wife on her first morning In
Paris just to play an old soft
ball game?. I still don't be
lleve ifd
And I know what she will
say when I tell her I have re
tired from- the game:
"Rover, as far as I am con.
cerned you can go right on
playing until you break all
the bones in your silly head.
A girl can only have her first
morning in Paris once, and
married man knows. Wives you make me spend it alone."
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