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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."
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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
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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
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