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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 4, 1953)
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon Capital AJournal An Independent Newspaper Established 1 888 BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor and Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che meketa St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Want Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409, nil LmmS Win ItTTlM f tht AuottiliS rru t Th Culm tt. Tilt AuocUtrt Prwi U ttclmlMlr ntiUM to lh uu (or publicum ot HI sm uptchu crnlltM to It or tbrwlM erxllttd la thl miot sS - tUo dwi publUhfd therein. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: B7 Orrliri Uonttli, ll.Mt au Uontha, 7.5i Out Tr. IIS M. Br Msll la lorloa. Polk. Linn. Binten. ClftekftmM and rimb.111 Countlu: MoatMr. SOe; All Month 14.101 Ono Yir, M OO. Br UU (UKbe In Otmod: Uonthlr, 11.00; 81 Month. 10.00: Oni fur. 113.00. Br utU OuUldi Orwon: Uonthlr. IIJSl Sll Uontht, SMOi On. Tfr. moo TOUR OF D. C. MONUMENTS ERRORS IN OUR DIPLOMACY Our diplomatic master minding has left much to be desired in two widely publicized incidents of the past few days. In fact the United States has been exposed to ln ternational ridicule, and without any apparent justifica tion. ' First, there was the arbitrary U.S. stand against any Asian power being named custodian of those Korean and Chinese prisoners held by the U.N. who refuse to go back to their homelands. We favored Switzerland, which obviously is not well located for such a chore, and turned thumbs down on the countries of Asia, giving tne Keas an opportunity for a type of propaganda they delight to exploit. Particularly we objected to India, which nas cer tainly not seen eye to eye with us in the past, but which is certainly not a communist country. Now we suddenly reverse ourselves and "demand" that . Pakistan, India's rival, be named. We see no objection to either India or Pakistan, but why is one so objection, able and the other so necessary? The "man on the street' . throughout the world, including the United States, is like ly to get the impression that our diplomats don t quite know what they are doing. Then there was this incident of the 25 liberated prison ' ers of war who were flown incognito from the Far East to the Valley Forge hospital m Pennsylvania in the evi dent belief that some br all had been converted to com munism during their enforced stay behind the Red lines, It develops now that they hadn't but they were boiling mad over being publicized as Red dupes, for which atti tude we don t think many will blame them. In fact the whole story about "brajn washing" our boys In the prison camps seems to have been mostly eyewash. They were starved, beaten, abused, etc., but not convert ed to communism. In fact the more they saw of it from close up the less they thought of it, as might have been guessed from the start. We're a great nation all right, but we repeatedly down grade ourselves in the eyes of the world by official stu pidities. ' , COMMUNIST TRICKERY - It is about time that the world's optimists, including those of the governments of the United States and the rest of the United Nations write off Russia's "peace of fensive" as; just another piece of communist trickery. They ought to have learned by this time that the Russian communists are committed to world conquest. "Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?" The only peace the Kremlin figures on is the peace of the grave for opponents, maintained by tyranny, terror ism, bloody purges and deportation to starvation slave camps in Arctic wilds. While stalling for peace in hope less Korean armistice parleys, the deadlock has been uti lized by the Reds to strengthen defenses and launch fresh aggression in peaceful Laos to grab southeast Asia. 1 The hopefulness that prevailed a few weeks ago among the allies has all but vanished through the Indochina in vasion and the lack of Soviet response to President Eis enhower's challenge of April 16 to prove a will for peace with "deeds." The new Kremlin leadership, like that of the old seems inspired to delude the west into prolonged "peace" nego tiations to slow down the NATO's defense rearmament, and alienate West Germany under hopes of a United Germany and refuse any important communist conces sions in the "cold war." Poor timing was shown by the communists in overplay ing their hand. The swift Laos assault has shocked and alarmed the allies at the initial effort to bring all of Southeast Asia under Red control. Secretary of State Dulles Saturday denouced the "ruth ' less and unprovoked" assault in Btrong statement and revealed that new "critically needed" aid is being rushed to the French and native defense forces, probably trans port and war planes from Japan and the Philippines. Let us hope the aid is not "too little and too late." lZ SSSS" lAirtAAC I XfrxTVfefM w ARC GOING TO ClVE V WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Stock of Eisenhower's Brother-in-Law Booms TALK LESS, WORK HARDER Albany Democrat-Herald The New York Times' James Reston, In the course of an article praising the work of Harold Stassen as head of the mutual security agency, re marks that "Stassen's career has been on the decline ever since the Ohio and Oregon pri maries in the 1948 presidential campaign, but he is reviving It merely by talking less and working harder." Reston, of course, ts refer ring to Stassen's political ca recr, and is not regarding Stassen's recent position - as president of the University of Pennsylvania as such an in significant post. However that niny be, the policy he attributes In 4Vi nrmor onvi-nn nf Minnesota, "talking leu and i t0?th"' working harder" ought to work pretty well for anybody in a position ot great responsibility. Washington Most meteoric career in Washington con tinues to be that of Lieut. Col. Gordon Moore, brother-ln law of the President. Lady luck was not too kind to rim a year ago. Then al most broke, he considered selling his house. During that hard-luck period, Moore was hired three times and fired twice within six months as the political prospects of his famous brother-in-law ebbed and flowed. ; But today lady luck smiles graciously. Today ther retired colonel has been able to Invest $25,000 in a once-bankrupt airline of which he has be come vice-president. On top of this, he set up a company of his own which lends money to small airlines. The latter concern, Air Transit Service, Inc., located at 1122 16th st. here, acts as a sort of money-changer for nonscheduled airlines. Most of them fly military passengs and freight for the govern ment. And what Moore does is borrow money from American Security and Trust, then turn around and lend money to the nonskeds until they can col lect from the slow-paying government. Strictly speaking this makes him a one-percenter, since that's the percentage he keeps for himself. Zooming Air Stock Colonel Moore's most In teresting business venture, however, was his investment of $25,000 in U. S. Air Lines. Last faU this line had four DC-3's, only one of which could get off the ground. Its insurance had been canceled, its bank account overdrawn, the sheriff was about to ham mer on the door, and the Civil Aeronautics Board, having canceled permission to fly military passengers, was threatening to revoke its certificate of operation al- Y DREW PEARSON financing and reorganizing, was entitled to a break with the CAB. This agency has been tough on some of the nonsked lines. Therefore, if the President's brother-in-law was able to cut CAB red-tape for this small line, it may set a helpful percedent for others. Note Moore's office -wall Is covered with galaxy of photos, showing various stages of Ikes career, the Eisen howers and the Moores to gether, plus a huge oil paint ing of the President in army uniform. Like the autograph ed photos of fame five-per center Col. Jim Hunt, who was investiff&teri hv Rpnuhli. cans, Moores ', collection doesn't hurt him with pros pective customers. Gambling In New Jersey For some weeks John J. DIckerson, Republican State chairman for New Jersey, has been threatening to sue me for libel because I reported on the radio Nov. 2: "John DIckerson, Republi can boss of New Jersey, has hushed up his connections with three notorious rack eteers, at least until after elections. DIckerson was sup posed to appear before the grand jury to explain his tie- up with Joe Adonis, Willie Moretti and Sal Moretti. Last week, a New Jersey legislative committee elicited testimony from the . same John DIckerson that Joe Adonis, now in a New Jersey prison; Willie Moretti, since then murdered: and Sal Moretti, since died in a New Jersey jail, did visit him in the basement of his home in November, 1990. They were uninvited guests, DIckerson said and came to protest that they had failed to get police protection for theif gambling operations, for which they said had paid HENRY Andtrson Bv Car 1 I HI I i I m i i t rri I 1 1 1 I M M M I JJ b A4 WM a L ML block in the company was then selling for 12 cents. Thereupon entered Ike's brother-in-law. Immediately the stock began to zoom, sold for 38 cents a share one week after Colonel Moore became 'an executive, today Is selling for 70 cents. Other important factors also contributed. One of these was the dynamic - reorganization ability ot Moore's live-wire partner, Fred Miller. Another was the financial backing of Gcarhart and Otis, New York Investment firm which bought in U. S. Air Lines' liabilities of $1,400,000 for $750,000. Another was the ability of Colonel Moore to help per suade Civil Aeronautics to reinstate U. S. Air Lines' certificate and allow it back In the business of transporting Army personnel. In fairness, it should be noted that Colonel Moore didn't do the talking before CAB. But he tagged along and stood i conspicuously in the background. Ordinarily the CAB drags out these appeals and lumps at any chance to squeeze a small airline out oz business. In the case of U.S. Air Lines, however, the CAB could- n i move fast enough to help put It back on 1U feet. It should also be noted that ,11. 8. Air Lines, alter rt- $228,000 of protection money to New Jersey officials over the past 19 months. DIckerson also admitted under oath that he recieved a $25,000 political loan from Joseph Bozzo of Passaic, N. J., friend of racketeers; and that he also had cooperated in the New Jersey elections with Cardlnale, described by the Kefauver committee as a major Hoboken gambler. This is the man who had the gall to threaten a libel suit. Correction In fairness to another man who has not threatened a libel suit, I would like to make a correction. He is Congressman William Bray of Indiana, who with other Con gressmen flew home in an Air Force plane at Easter time. I now find that, although the Congressman did request a free flight from the Air Force, he did so shortly after the town of Lewis in his district had suffered an explosion due to the wreck of an ammultion train. So it seems to me his request of the Air Force was justified, and I am happy to make this point entirely clear. Longshoreman Pay-off It will come as a surprise, but the Senate Waterfront Investigating Committee will ask the Justice Department to bring criminal charges against Grace Steamship Line officials who paid off waterfront racketeers. Senate sleuths found that mobster Timmy 'O'Mara had drawn $25,604 from the Grace Lines under the fictitious name of Edward Joseph Ross. Though the racketeer did no work for the company, he drew the money as a "pay-off" to guarantee labor peace. The same company forked over another $13,248 to Jay O'Connor, business agent for the longshoremen's union, POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Traffic Lights Always Red On Some Days, Hal Notes By HAL BOYLE New York W) Some days,, this honeycomb or Hurry xew pauae lor a uimcm un. no matter what street corner you come to, the traffic light is always red.' ' And so it was this aay. it . - H.I.. was dusK. . i was wuiruir home along Second avenue, and had the dream like feel ing of seeing the death of the human race . . . everything was noisy or shabby or ugly, except for a light or two high In a skyscraper. This is New York City,' I thought. "A few tall spires In a mire, and millions of faces made out of fog ; I came to a street corner . and the light turned red. A cab whizzed around the cor ner. The driver leaned out and cursed a pedestrian. The sidewalk was lined with second-rate antique shops, full of sad merchandise . . . things people now dead once thought beautiful, things the people they left them to sold as junk. A sign in a window said: "Old comic books 5 cents." The last refuge of the nickel. I came to a street comer . . . and the light turned red. The stinking trucks rumbled by all going one way toward the night . . . like dying ele phants groaning through a cobblestone jungle to a hidden graveyard. i A small boy sat alone on a curbstone. He watched the parade of truck-elephants with the blank stare of one bored young with the circus of life dead eyes in a face of paste. I came to a street corner . . . and the light turned red. Over to the left loomed the lumin ous United Nations building a word of woe in a world of windows ... 30 stories in towering glass, still looking for a happy ending . . . and the sun going down. Up a side street stood a big tin garbage can. A man in blue overalls lay with one arm around it, his face turned down, his sprawling legs stretched out moveless on the sidewalk . . . was he dead, or sick, or only drunk? ... In Salem 13 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL May 4, 1940 Sunday evening service at Salem's First Presbyterian church will present a pro gram setting forth the motor vehicle traffic accidents and methods employed In acci dent prevention. Federal surplus commodity corporation has authorized purchase of an additional 11,000 tons of California, Ore gon and Washington prunes for distribution. Oregon will supply 1500 tons. Ferryman employed in Marion county ferry service cannot benefit by the work man's compensation act, the industrial accident commis sion has ruled. Ferrvmen. in appears, are mariners not covered by the act. Arthur Hobart, first Judge on the election board of North SUverton for 40 years, has re signed on account of advanc ing years. He never missed an election. Floyd Young, member of the community playhouse since It organization last year. has been elected president of the group. Old state capitol, the new capitol, a picture of Jason Lee and another of the Cir cuit Rider are featured on commemorative poster stamps issued by the Salem Stamp society to honor the centen nary of the first postage stamp. The navy department has awarded a $36,669 contract for twine to Salem Linen mills. Heavy rain, together with boys riding bicycle on the softened track has forced post- ponment of the Greater Willamette Valley track meet scheduled for today at Albany. Methodist church in nation al convention at Atlantic City has declared its oppositioin to war and makes a plea that conclentious objectors be ac corded consideration by their fellow men. Jean Filder and Jean Claire Swift, both of Salem, won superior rating In class C piano duo competition of Ore gon Federation ot Music clubs in Portland. now under indictment for ex tortion. The phony pay checks were slipped to O'Mara and O'Connor by Thomas Maher, pier superintendent for the Grace Lines. Senate lawyers claim this was a criminal violation of the Taft-Hartley Act. (Copyritht, 1M3) I 'came to a street corner , and the light turned red. Two men, both deaf mutes, stood arguing angrily, calling each other names in sign language . . . making figures of Sate with flvintf fingers . . . and what could they find to fight about in their soundless words? , , , love or pride or money? " A girl hung on her father's had. and whimpered, "but why can't I have It, daddy? Why?" . . i all things alive crying for something, they can't have . . . which hurts the most, a tadpole-or a whale? ... a nurse in a white uniform hurried by. late to duty in a hospital where every day dawns on 500 people so sick the doctors can only say, "It's fifty-fifty" ... a lost dog belly-groveled nervously on the pavement as three ragged urchins taunted it. I came to a street corner '. . . and the light turned red. The dirty windows' in vacant tene ments had the. film of dying eyes ... a frowsy middle- aged wife bawled out her hus band In a high, whining voice that neither of them listened to . . . when she finished, he went into the saloon anyway. The wind raised dervishes of dust ... a speck spun into my eye and stung me into self pity . . nothing for block after block but the tired testi mony of. misery and squalor and weariness that man in flicts upon man ... I wonder ed how it would feel to be a cliff or a brook or a tree in stead of a man. I came to a street comer ... and the light turned red. And then I saw them . . 'J two dumpy old ladies with happy faces. One held a bunch of fresh lilacs, the other a bundle of groceries, and the one with the lilacs was teach ing her friend the English language. "Cottage cheese?" she said, and then pointed to a display carton in the store window. "H-m'm. Well, you see, a cottage is like a little house. So they put the cheese in a little house, too, so they just call it cottage cheese. That Is whyl" She watched anxiously while her friend knotted her brows, thinking hard, and OPEN FORUM Local Agriculture in Need of Protection To the Editor: With refer ence to your editorial pub llshed in the April 80th issue of the Capital Journal under the heading of "Ike and the Tariff Plotters." We view the sentiment ex pressed in this editorial with consternation ana aiarm. The economy of the Willam ette valley and the Salem area in particular will be very largely effected by the future policy of our national govern, ment with respect to adequate tariff protection on many agri cultural crops. The cherry industry Is en tirely-dependent upon the tar. iff protection which is now in effect on brined cherries. Prior to the 1930 tariff rates which were put Into effect on brined Maraschino and Glace manu facture in the United States. Since the cherry industry was granted tariff protection, the brined cherries market has be come the chief outlet for Wil lamette valley cherries. The filbert Industry is also faced with ruinous competi tion from Mediterranean coun tries. . Willamette valley field seed crops are soreiy in neea or tariff protection if that indus try is to survive. A Wool growers, bulb grow ers, and the dairy industry all are in trouble due to a rapidly increasing volume of low priced competing foreign prod- ducts. All of these Industries men tioned contribute millions ot dollars income to the farmers who produce these crops in the Salem area. Labor payrolls which are dependent on these crops are a very Important item in the Salem economy. We believe the Salem press should support a program of adequate tariff protection for home industries which support the economy of our own community. ROBERT E. SHINN, Manager, Willamette Cherry Growers, Inc. i then said nodding, "yes.! cottage' cheese, now I know."! The two dumpy old ladeisT smiled happily at each othecj . and it was as if a fog had lifted and a rainbow shone over Second avenue . . . Oh.' it is a winderful thing to be a human being. I came to a street corner . . i and the light turned green . . . and It shone green at all tha other corners on the war home, and the air had a lilae smell. n ill SAN FIANCISCD k ft. cum cars y It? SAW FRANCISCO II HUTS Jti K 1 .t- take Your California Vacation Now... While Train and Hotel Reservations are Easy to Get! Planning a trip to California this year? Now is a fine time to go. Train and hotel reservations are not the problem they will be later when the summer tourist season is in full sway. SPRING IS A DELIGHTFUL time of the year to travel. The countryside is wearing its new suit of green and the balmy air ia clean and invigorating. YOU'LL ENJOY YOUR TRIP more when you , go by train. The engineer does the driv- ' ing. You relax and arrive rested... and ready for work or play. It's the carefree, dependable way to go. RAIL FARES ARE VERY LOW and you have your choice of two of America's finest streamliners from the Pacific Northwest to California The Ekatta Daylight by Daj; The Cascade Overnight Tor informat ion and reservation eaU AMERICA'S MOSrl MODERN TIAINr C. A. LARSON, Agent Phone 3-9244 .ssrvsae. . ft I