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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Orcfoi
Thursday, April 80, 1953
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IKE AND THE TARIFF
1 ' President Elsenhower In an
her of Commerce Wednesday nitrht warned the nation
that its nroaneritv and very
with other nations. This,
foundation" of the administration's whole foreign policy
because "we must trade with
The president promised that defense spending would be
cut "at the earliest possible moment" to provide security
at the "lowest possible cost."
ed, he said, "beyond that point that you can, with justifi
cation, say 'I shall sleep well tonight because my country,
its system, its liberties are safe.' "
1 In defending a liberal trade policy, the president hit In
directly at protection minded businessmen and congress
men who have been applying terrific pressure for increas
ed trade restrictions to chop down foreign competition.
' Mr. Eisenhower was not criticizing the chamber, for
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the organization naa iormauy cauea lor increasea ioreign
imports, the "selective adjustment" of tariffs and the
"reduction of other harriers to world trade."
There is a move in congress headed by Rep. Richard
M. Sampson (B., Pa.) father of a bill called the "Trade
Agreements Extension Act of 1953," to pack the U.S.
tariff commission now a bi-partisan six-man board, with
republican high tariff advocates by enlarging it to a seven
man board, with a republican majority to nullify the
present reciprocal trade agreements program. It would
Impose additional restrictions on its activities that would
effectively kill foreign trade.
The high tariff protectionists ignore the lessons of
history. The tariff is simply a dole to producers paid for
by consumers, and it has been truly said that it is "the
mother of trusts and millionaires." All commerce is recip
rocal dependent upon exchange of products. That is ele
mental. High tariffs price products out of the world markets.
The high tariff wall of the SmooMIawley bill, prevented
payment of World War I debts by our allies, stimulated
inflation, killed the markets for our surplus products
and helped bring on the great depression. Restoration of
tariff walls will have a similar effect.
As long as Britain followed a free trade policy, it com
manded the markets of the world. With the adoption of a
tariff policy, its trade decadence followed. With Amer
ican "know how" and inventions, our mechanical facilities
and our lead in production, both agricultural and manu
facturing, our modern mechanization and efficiency we
have no need of doles for any of our producers. They can
stand on their "own, and do not need a Santa Claus.
JOHN L. POSES A 'DARE'
' The country Is accustomed to the unexpected from
John JU Lewis, even periods in which he makes no fresh
demands on the coal industry. One of the biggest sur
prises ha has yet sprung was
ate labor committee the other day of repeal of all labor
legislation enacted since 1932.
Lewis' hatred for the Taft-Hartley act has been voiced
repeatedly, but this proposal would sweep into the dis
card labor's own Wagner act, which it has long hailed as
its "Magna Carta" or charter of liberty.
Noting the shocked countenances of the senators, Lewis
insisted that he spoke seriously, and he denied a charge
that this would return the country to the "law of the
Jungle." .
The noted labor leader insisted that much of the strife
and bitterness of recent years has been engendered by
the invasion of government into a field that used to be
occupied solely by the immediate participants, labor and
employers. . . ,
Lewis said that if both of the labor acts were repealed
the country would have genuine collective bargaining
again, "free enterprise" which the republicans are fond
of giving lip service, too, and whom he taunted to actually
restore. ' ' . .
John L. had an answer for those who argued that "his
proposal would lead to more strife. If it docs congress
can act very, quickly, and in the light of current condi
tions, and would do' so, he pointed out.
It would take a nervy congress and president to accept
the Lewis dare, but candor forces the admission that the
darned thing might work. ' And the present setup isn't
exactly a howling success.
STRAIGHT TO THE POINT
Salem's distinguished cabinet member, Douglas McKay,
spoke right to the point Wednesday to the U.S. Cham
ber of Commerce when he admitted that businessmen and
the business viewpoint are 'in the saddle" in government
today, but that they won't be there long unless they
satisfy the American people of their intelligence and good
faith.
Particularly he warned business people against seeking
more than reasonable profits and asking for government
policies designed to help them get such profits. Nothing
would more surely alienate public sympathy from the ad
ministration and promote the return of leftist elements
to power.
McKay struck another good note when he Insisted that
the Eisenhower administration isn't going to give away
the nation's natural resources, which the Republicans
under Theodore Roosevelt were the first to undertake
conservation of.
There has been an obvious effort to create the impres
sion that the tidelands bill is a "grab" as if these were to
be given to private interests instead of confirmed to the
states, who on the record of the past decade at least, are
just as likely if not more likely to manage them in the
interests of all the people. McKay nailed this canard with
the declaration that "we aren't going to give away any
thing." . . ,
St. Helens Sale
Wins Approval
San Francisco W Crown
Zdlerbach Corp. has received
approval from the California
Corporation commission to ac
quire control ot the St. Helens
Pulp and Paper company ot
St Helena, Ore., and of Cin
aian western Lumber com
pany of Vancouver, B.C.
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PLOTTERS
address to the U. S. Cham
security depended upon trade
he declared is the "material
others or we cannot exist;
But it will never be reduc
his advocacy before the sen
The commission ruled Wed
nesday that the proposed offer
ot exchange of Crown Zellcr
bach stock for the stock of the
two companies was fair and
equitable.
FOUR CORNERS DANCK
Four orners A supervised
teenage dance will be held in
the community hall from 8 to
11 p.m. Saturday, May 2. Teen
agers from 13 to 19 years of
age ax Invited.
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WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Gov't. Given an Elephant
No Money to Bring Him Here
8Y DREW
Washington Republicans
are faced with a serious chal
lenge to the symbol of the
grand old party the ele
phant.
A prize African elephant has
been given to the national zoo
in tne nation's capital by the
government of Belgium, but
thanks to the current economy
wave, the republican adminis
tration hasn t got the money
to bring the elepuant to the
United States.
It hasn't got the money even
though the Belgian govern
ment will transport this iym
bol of the GOP in a Sabena
Airline plane free.
Gift of the elephant was ar
ranged by Mrs. Molly Thay
er, associate director of the
American forum of the air.
through the Belgian ambassa-
dar, Robert Silvercruys. And
the elephant is now waiting
patiently in the Belgian Congo.
She la a female, seven years
old, named "Maybe" though
some have suggested she might
be rechrlstened "Mamie."
Dr. William Mann, director
of the National zoo, has been
scratching his head trying to
figure a way to bring Maybe
to Washington, since the zoo
completely lacks an African
elephant Indian elephants,
much easier to train, are plen
tiful in the United States, but
African elephants are rare.
Dr. Mann, himself a strong
Taft republican, figured that
things would be easy for him
once his party got Into power.
But he now finds the zoo bud
get being cut back until he can
hardly afford horse meat for
Salem 64 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
April SO, 1889
New Livery Stable. Fisher
Gaines, proprietor, corner of
Ferry and Liberty streets,
northeast from Chemeketa ho
tel. (This structure still stands
at 97 South Liberty street to
become one of the older frame
buildings In downtown Sa
lem)
Lady friends report they
have lately discovered Mrs.
Frances Burnett, authoress of
Little Lord Fauntleroy, smok
lng cigarettes not ordinary
cigarettes but exotic imports'
tions from Spain. Further, says
this Capital Journal "boiler
plate" of 64 years ago, "Clg.
arette smoking women are not
particularly an edifying spec
tacle." '
Store For Sale. Whlteaker
store for sale. G. W. Hunt,
proprietor. (Horse and buggy
trading center on a road now
leading to Sliver Creek falls).
Horace Holden who lives
Just north of Salem on the
River road has lately celebrat
ed the anniversary ot his 45th
year in the Willamette valley.
He reached Salem April 19,
1844. At that time Portland
was a fir grove, Salem con
tained very few houses and
many giant trees grew In what
Is now Commercial street.
Hardships endured by the pi
oneers were many. Their chief
diet was boiled whest three
times a day. All the flour they
had tor many years had to
I CAN'T CONTI NUE THIS
PEARSON
the , lions or fish for his pen
guins. MATBE'S MAHOUT
He has been able to scrape
up the cost ot a crate to house
Maybe for her trans-Atlantic
flight. This has to be a strong
crate, since the Sabena Airline
doesn't want a young elephant
kicking the sides out of the
plane in midair.
Besides the crate, however,
Dr. Mann has to scrape up the
cost of bringing Maybe's ma
hout along. This is important;
for the Belgians report that
Maybe Is a timid young lady
and could not possibly cross
the Atlantic without the train
er who has been her companion
for six of her seven years. ,
Dr. Mann figures It will cost
$000 to bring the mahout to
the United States and send him
back. Furthermore he has to
buy the mahout some clothes.
It would not be Quite proper
for him to arrive In the na
tion's capital clad in a Jungle
loin cloth.
So, for lack of paltry
11,200, or at the most $1,500
the symbol of the republican
party stomps impatiently in
Leopoldvllle, waiting for some
generous republican to clothe
her mahout and arrange her
debut in the capital of the
United States.
Maybe if the ' republicans
can't raise this money some of
the democrats ought to dig
down In their Jeans and help
out. Or maybe the school chil
dren of Washington could con.
tribute five cents each to
bring "Maybe" over here.
These are the alternatives
be ground in a coffee mill,
(Horace Holden was born In
New Hampshire July 21, 1810,
In his youth he shipped aboard
a whaler and was shipwrecked
on the Pelew islands. After
many ordeals and much suf
terlng at the hands of savages
he was rescued and returned
to America where he wrote a
book about his adventures.
This rare volume Is now a pos
session of Salem Public li
brary. Horace Holden died
March 14, 1904 at the age of
9S.)
coburg Mall, narrow gage
tram of the Oregonlan Rail
way company, leaves from the
foot of Jefferson street in Port
land at 10:30 a.m. and arrives
at Coburg at 10:18 p.m. Mar
ion county stations on the line
are: Ray's landing, St. Paul
Woodburn, Townsend, McKec,
Mt. Angel, Downs, Silverton,
Johnston's mill, Switzerland,
East Side Junction, Macleay,
Aumsviiie ana west Stayton,
At Ray's and Fulquartz land
ings passengers were trans
ported across the Willamette
by the steamboat City of Sa
lem. Tickets sold at the rate
ot two cents a mile at stations
having agents.
Scrlber & Pohle have re
ceived a line of finest carriages
from Eastern manufacturer!
and offer phaetons, spring
wagons, stage coaches, moun
tain wagons, skeleton wagons,
dog carts and other vehicles at
prices and term to suit all.
GAME
considered by the harassed Dr,
Mann, who, republican though
he Is, can't help thinking of
those good old democratic days
when Secretary of the Inter
ior Ickes nonchalantly phoned
to ask If he would like to
have $870,000 to build a new
bird house.
PRIVATE DINING ROOM
In addition to economizing
on the zoo, Postmaster General
Summerfleld, exGOP nation'
al chairman, has been making
speeches on economy. What he
hasn't mentioned in his his
speeches however is that he
has ordered a suite of offices
remodeled to make a private
dining room for himself.
What the postmaster general
did was to kick government
workers out of four offices to
make room for a lush, private
dining room.
The four rooms 1409, 1411
1413 and 1415 had been used
by employees of the Federal
Communications commlss Ion
They have Just been handed
orders to vacate so their office
space can be "converted Into a
private dining room for the
postmaster general."
Note: Another cabinet offl
cer who doesn't believe that
economy begins at home is
Secretary of Commerce Weeks,
who has cut everyone else's
share of the budget but has set
aside approximately $38,000
for government planes to fly
him around the country.
FOUR HAGEN BROTHERS
President Elsenhower, who
has four brothers himself, got
a big kick out of meeting the
four brothers of GOP Con
gressman Harold Hagen of
Mlnensota the other day, par
ticularly when he learned that
one brother had played a stra'
teglc role in the Normandy in
vasion.
Norman Hagen, an interna
tlonally known meteorologist,
was one of the U.S. experts
who helped forecast the weath
er one day before D-day. Their
prediction that conditions
would be satisfactory was a
tough one to make, because
the weather on June S, 1944
24 hours before, was stormy.
"It was raining and the wind
seemed strong enough to blow
a house down," recalled Ike as
he met the Hagen brothers,
"but I had confidence in you
leiiows and decided to go
ahead with our plans the next
day. I knew that if we delayed
the attack It might be a week,
or even two weeks, before we
could launch another."
"We knew what you were
going through," remarked Ha
gen. "In the opinion of meteor
ologists, your decision was the
most courageous ever made in
wartime having to do with the
weather."
Another Hagen brother,
George, an attorney, who has
been handling Jap war-criminal
pardon eases for the state
department, said his stenogra
pher was convinced Ike was
really economy-minded, Judg
ing by the way he conserves
Ink.
ON THf
THE BEST
OPEN FOMM
Parking Meters Also
Irritate This Writer
To the Editor:
The news item in the -Capi
tal Journal April 28 on "shop
ping center not for p a r k 1 n g
meters" shows that the city fa
thers are keeping up with the
trend ot the day, i.e., loot ev
erybody we can, gather the
gold doubllns by any hook or
crook.
Why bother with purchasing
more parking meters, save tne
city that expense. Seems to me
the economical way would be
to put a toll gate on all streets
entering the Cherry city, catch-
lng the victims as they enter,
thus leaving the meter crew to
hunt vandals breaking win
dows, stealing gas or any other
malicious deviltry they can
think of to perpetrate on the
lonely parked car.
C.L. Warner,
4313 Macleay Rd.,
Salem.
GROWING PAINS
(Roseburg News-Review)
Douglas county's growing
pains are In evidence on every
hand. New school buildings
are going up everywhere. Ad
ditions are being made to old
structures. Churches are ex
panding. Various communi
ties are voting bonds for water
systems, sewer lines, sewage
disposal plants and other civic
improvements.
Incorporation plans are be
ing made at Winston. Annex
ation elections are scheduled
at Roseburg. Several school
district consolidations are in
the making. New rural fire
protection districts are being
created. The Roseburg rural
tire district Is considering en
largement. Everywhere we see evi
dences of growth and improve
ment and are pleased by what
we see.
Our pleasure will diminish
during the next few weeks as
we start voting on annual bud
gets for school districts, muni
cipalities and other tax-levying
political subrivisions. It
is necessary for us to realize,
however, that we can't have
progress without paying the
cost.
Family Gets in Bath
Tub to Keep Dry
Mempnis, Tenn. u.n Willie
Hopkins and his family all
crawled Into the bathtub yes
terday to keep dry.
Torrential rains caused wa
ter to back up into their home.
The tub was the only dry spot
in the house.
New Gestapo
Rule in Eastern
is the symbol of terror. It has
meant arrest and Imprisonment
for thousands of Soviet Zone
residents.
Many Have Fled
Thousands of . others have
fled to West Germany to es
cape the SSD and long prison
terms and even death. West
ern officials have revealed
that the SSD operates kidnap
gangs to spirit anto-Commu-
nlsts out of West Berlin Into
the Soviet Zone.
Western officials estimate
that at least 20,000 East Ger
mans have been arrested in the
past two years because they
were considered antl-Commu-
nlst.
Those arrested have Includ
ed Catholic and Protestant
clergymen students, workers,
farmers, industrialists, profes
sional men and government of
ficials. Secret Trials
Most of them, western of
ficials assert were tried se
cretly and taken to undisclosed
destinations to await an un
known fate.
"She says Harrv S. Truman
usea to sign pardon papers
. .
with his full, name. But now
they come back to us signed
u.s..', Hagen reported.
ine omer Hagens were
Adolph, a Falls Church. Vir
ginia, businessman, and Al, the
mayor of Palmer, Alaska.
As the president shook hands
with the latter, he recalled that
while in Fairbanks, Alaska,
some years ago, he had played
on the "northernmost golf
course in the world."
"They tell me the republi
cans are going to lose congress
In next year's elections," Ike
ribbed Congressman Harold
Hagen, who also has three sis
ters.
"Oh. no. we aren't." hot
back the Minnesota republican.
"If anything, we are going to
Increase our control of both
houses."
"Well, I'll do all I can to
help," promised the president.
COPTTltht. Ill
HIGHWAY
WAY IS..,
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
It's Not Fair to Mislead
Men That Way, Lady Astor ;
' By HAL BOYLE '
New York te Dear Lady dumb a man will be able in
Astor:
. You have raised a lot of
false male hopes by your
statement that women today
seem to be getting dumber and
dumber,
It Isn't fair to mislead men
that way. It stirs within them
the wlll-'o-the-wisp dream that
maybe women will become so
LEGISLATURES FINE
Albany Democrat-Herald
Editors and other observers
are calling the 1953 legislature
the best session In recent years.
In this we concur, as we do
with the frequently expressed
opinion that our new governor.
Paul Patterson, has dene
splendidly in h(s new Job.
There was a tremendous vol
ume of legislation to deal with
more than 1300 separate
items covering the whole wide
range of state activity, and it
was well handled. No body
of men can handle such a long
list of measures, mostly con
troverslal, and get general
agreement as to the wisdom
ot the . handling of them all.
But this legislature came about
as close as one would think
possible.
The attitude of the public
toward its legislative servants
has changed greatly, for the
better, in the last generation,
We can recall when newspa
pers used to poke cheap fun at
the legislature. We don't see
much of this now and we at
tribute the change of the im
provement in both the legisla
ture and the press.
We agree with most that was
done; were disappointed in
some of the action. The atti
tude of this newspaper on most
of the controversial matter was
expressed during the session,
though restricted space pre
vented lengthy discussion. Our
final conclusion is that both the
legislative assembly and the
governor acted up to the best
traditions of Oregon govern
ment and are entitled to the
thanks of the people also,
incidentally, to more tangible
pay than they get.
ROSED ALE COMEDY
Rosedale The Rosedale
Parents Club is sponsoring a
comedy, "Excuse My Dust," to
be presented at the school at
8 p.m. Friday, May 1, by the
Salem Civic Players.
Enforces Red
Germany
Berlin 0J.B A new Gestaoo
has been fastened upon Soviet
occupied East Germany to en
force the will of a new dicta
torship. This time it's known as the
SSD State Security Service. Its
masters are the Communist
rulers of Last Germany.
But Its purpose and its
methods have the familiar look
of Hitler's Gestapo, rooted out
only eight years ago.
Once again a knock on the
door in the middle of the night
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get back his equal rights again
and compete with them on fair
terms. That Is unlikely.
Women may seem to act
dumber on the surface, as you
say, but they are actually gt
ting 'smarter and smarter, if
the accumulation ot more
power is the proof of brains. (
A man groans and sweats to
build a skyscraper. A woman
praises his perspiration, pats
him on the back, bldea her tin
and bye and bye she owns
tne Duucung. ,
You complain, dear laitv
that women today take every,
thing for granted. Why should
n't they? It is a sensible atti
tude. Everything la granted to
them. A iact is a fact. The
dominant position of the un.
fair gender is the victory of
feminine intelligence over
aimless male groping.
Men never knew what they
really wanted In this world,
and half the wars they have
fought throughout history were
the result of their boredom.
Women do know what thev
want today, or think they do
power. Public power. It Is a
new toy to them, and they en
Joy playing with It 5
As lone as woman stood an
her ago-old pedestal no one
could tell whether she was viae
or foolish. She kept silent be
cause she was weak, and the
only strength of weakness lies
in remaining silent '
But success likes to bra
about itself. The heady win
of triumph loosens the tongue.
That is why some women to
day seem to be getting dumber.
They are so strong that they
are willing to open their trap
on any and every subject
from baseball to politics and
let out their natural normal,
human Ignorance. '
It was there all the time.
but hidden. Women don't mind
showing their Ignorance now
because they are sure of them
selves. And they get more now-'
erful all the time.
Woman is a brimming reser- -
voir of all kinds of powers,
physical, mental, moral and
legal. She can do something no
biologist can imitate in a lab
oratory. She can marry a mala
worm, turn him Into a man,
and when he starts acting like
a rat, she can reduce him
easily to the stature of an.all-mony-paying
mouse. .
Women today can make men
anything they want And they
themselves can do anything a
can, and bear children besides.
Getting dumber, Lady As
tor? No, indeed. The ignorance,
disdain, and ingratitude that
you complain of in your sex
is only the arrogance of new
authority, certain of Its muscle.
The only hope for the fu
ture of men is that women,
drunk with power, may start
to
quarrel among themselves.
For when kings fall out or
in this case, queens lesser
breeds may make a gamble for
the thrones,
And If women start belting
each other around, men may
band together and regain their
lost booshood. Hit 'em again,
lady!
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