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Capital AJournal An Independent Newspoper Established 1 888 BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor ond Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 Che meketo St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Want Ads, 2-2406; Society Editor, 2-2409. toll Uu4 mitt SarrlM 1 1tn mmIM1 PrtM nl TU VrnKt tn-. Tat AnooHUd rtwi U itluiltlF tntltlX M thi u for publtuttos ! u nm dlipttehti c4lte4 to II or otbirwUt cwdlUd la Ihu punt us Jfo ntwi publUhtd tntrttn. THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon SECRET WEAPON THEY FEAR MOST i SUBSCRIPTION RATES: tr Cwrltrt tlonthlr. ll.Hi an lionlha. IT.IOi Ont Iir. Ill 00. Br MII la UMlon. Polk. Linn, stolon, Clutiinii ud ttmblll Countlei: Uootblr. 10c: III Monthi, 14.10; On Tttr, DM. B Mill IUtir In Ornon: Monthly. 11.00; Bli Uontht, 19.00; ono Ttor, Iia.no. 07 Wftu uuuiai urtcon; Mrotnir. n.mi oi modim. oi.wi Op. Tr. 116 00 'BRAIN WASHING' BY REDS The Chinese have given us an appropriate name for , the communists' battle for men's minds in war of ideol ogies that has produced the "cold war" which the Kremlin has perfected in the "brain warfare" waged since the Russian revolution brain washing." It explains the "confessions" of those accused of most any crime. In the current issue of the weekly U.S. News and World Report an address by Allen W. Dulles, director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, gives a comprehensive ' description and history of the development of "Brain Warfare Russia's Secret Weapon," and its success. Hitler and the nazis were probably its originators, and Mussolini and the fascists followed the effort to make men into a single pattern, but their efforts covered only I & lew years and had little permanent effect. Japan had thought control along the same lines which was highly effective in welding the Japanese into appar ent unity behind intense nationalism at least temporarily. Dulles defines at length the Soviet system of brain control as taking two forms. He says: "First, the attempt at mats indoctrination of hundreds of minions oi people bo mat mey respond oocneiy xo ine oraeri of their master. This permits the creation of a monolithic solidarity in the Soviet state which outwardly gives it the appearance of great unity. "Second, the perversion of the minds of selected individuals who are subjected to such treatment that they are deprived of the ability to state their own thoughts. Parrotlike the individ uals so conditioned can merely repeat thoughts which have been implanted in their minds by suggestion from outside. In effect, the brain under these circumstances becomes a phono graph playing a disc put on its spindle by an outside genius over wmcn 11 nat no control." ( PEOPLE I I CANCEROUS 1 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Electrics and Medics Top Spending Lobbies at Wn. 1Y DREW PEARSON Washington - ttPfil op. 'v'iZe' Dulles says that the Chinese were subjected to "brain washing" as individuals, of "cleansing the mind of old and evil thoughts, spawned by imperialists of the West" and a "brain changing" which implanted the "new and glorious thoughts of the communist revolution" to thwart the West's program of the gospel of freedom. Mass indoctrination of millions necessitate the "Iron Curtain" or "Bamboo Curtain" to close off with an im penetrable barrier the area within, the physical and spir itual barrier of isolation to cast-off normal intercourse, and all the people enclosed hear only the theme song of hate about the democratic peoples, who "are plotting their downfall." Torture and drugs and "lie serum" are used on individuals and a new technique developed "to create new brain processes and new thoughts which the victim parrot-like repeats as the result of a mental rnetmorphosis." ' This brain washing treatment accounts for the fact that some of our returned POW are said to have been returned indoctrinated. It seems the West will have no peace until we' utilize atom bombs to end forever the recrudescence of barbarism. COLLIERS SHIFTS GEARS Colliers Weekly, an important factor In American Journalistic life for the past 55 years, is going to be come a bi-weekly, due, it announces, to the impact of television. , Rising publishing costs have hit Colliers right where It hurts in the region of the pocketbook. The famous magazine lost money last year, and recently imported Paul Smith, the former boy wonder publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle, as an expert adviser after Smith was let out by the Chronicle in an economy move. This may be his doing. Colliers was one of the most influential publications in America in the early years of the century .under the editorship of Mark Sullivan and Norman Hapgood. It helped spark many of the reforms of the Teddy Roose velt and Woodrow Wilson administrations. But Colliers lost its great editors and its editorial drive. It improved in typographical appearance, but lost its mission and much of its reader following. In urgent need of rejuvenation it will slip from high gear into intermediate with bi-weekly publication. This step seems to have worked satisfactorily for Pathfinder, another magazine that has been revived in recent years after a period of decline. Magazine publishing is a highly competitive business that only the old Saturday Evenincr Post Hppma tn have completey mastered so it stays on top constantly re gardless of T-H, high water and all that may be associ ated with these obstacles. Colliers' experiment will be watched with sympathetic Interest, especially by a now thinning company of older men and women who recall its former greatness. GOVERNOR ON GOOD GROUND Governor Patterson is on good ground when he an nounces that he will insist upon a fair allocation of power to Oregon from whatever development takes place on the mid-Snake river, whether by the government in Hells Canyon or by Idaho Power at Oxbow, just above the Canyon. One of the state of Idaho's objections to the govern ment dam has been a belief that all or nearly all the power would be exported to the coast, tied up on long term contracts, with Idaho, a private power state, unable to buy because of the discriminatory nature of the new deal laws governing sale of nubile nnwer. Idaho is entitled to be concerned about its share of the new power and so is Oregon, and our belief is that Oregon can secure such a commitment if Idaho Power develops that sector of the stream. Most peode down thia but the Idaho concern is already a big supplier of power w wicjsoii. ah me current used in Malheur county and much of that used in Baker county comes from Idaho Power's present plants, as does some current used in Union county. Surely commitments can be secured to take care of the growing needs of this section of Oregon, nu puaaiuiy ior oiner sections as well. Salem 44 Years Ago By BEN MAXWELL May S, 1909 Oregon will spend $10,000 In improvements around the statehouse including concrete sidewalks, driveways and a concrete floor for the basement Contractors are assembling equipment for wrecking a two story structure at the north west corner of Commercial and State streets where the new, five story United States Na tional bank building will soon start to rise. (Red Cross drug store occupied a corner in this old Salem block built by the Moores' in the early 1860s). Says the Capital Journal: "It speaks volumes for Salem when a two-story brick build ing, once the city's pride, can be put into discard, destroyed and forgotten." Mines on the Little North Fork of the Santiam are boom ing. The woods are filled with prospectors and the boom of rock blasting is almost inces sant. A stage is now running within two and half miles of the smelter site at the mouth of Gold creek. POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Would It Be Better to Be One of 'Right People? By HAL BOYLE First professional wrestling match ever seen in Salem oc curred last night at Grand Opera house. Eddie O'Connell, champion light weight, threw Joe LaSalle the best two out of three straight pin falls us ing the hammer lock for each fall, Salem school board solicits bids for wood: For East school, SO cords of second growth fir, 10 cords of ash. Revolvers smoked at Gates yesterday when a couple of duelists shot it out over a woman. Now the president of Golden Arch Mining company is dead and "Smoke House Bill," engineer for Curtis Log ging company, is in precarious condition. ZEAL FOR ECONOMY (Astorlan-Budget) President Eisenhower cut $1.8 billion from the Truman budget proposals on foreign aid, and now congress is talk ing about cutting even more below the $3.8 billion which Mr. Eisenhower proposes. This li a food way toward government economy an ad ministration zealous In making cuts and a congress lealous in trying to find ways for even more reductions. If the administration and congress continue in this spir it in consideration of all parts oi tne leacrai Budget we can hope for a major start toward genuine federal economy. Title for Willamette hotel property (now the Marion) has finally been passed and a deal for the property closed. Russell Catlin driving a Max well car in Eastern Oregon writes to J. F. Priehs, local agent, that he covered the 94 miles from Shaniko to Bend in eight hours and 20 minutes and "we are satisfied." German society of Salem has has purchased for $8000 the northweast corner of Commer cial and Ferry streets as hall site for the society. Bids are published calling for a sprinkler system for the Ore gon State Insane hospital Southern Pacific contemplates making improvements here to the extent of $50,000. Included will be a track extension to the Insane asylum and a new freight depot. Sacred Heart academy is also making prop erty improvements. A new fence is being built and the electric cross, now nearly fin ished, is lighted every night. Can the Judge Preside At His Own Hearing? Petaluma, Calif. (U.R) Justice was at an impasse here today while the town's only Judge, Roland C. Webb, tried to fig ure out how he could try him self. Webb was arrested in fl bar yesterday and charged with being drunk. New York VP) A deer must sometimes look through pasture bars and wonder if it wouldn't be better to give up his wild ways for the safe, serene life of a cow. So it is with human rene gades. A bank robber now and then muses on whether he might not be more happy if he were a bank president, and earned his biscuit money flourishing a pen Instead of a pistol. We aU are afflicted at times with this wasteful self-doubt. We tease ourselves by ponder ing what-might-have-been if. when the road forked a ways back, we had taken the other path. In my case I wonder wheth er it isn't perhaps wiser to become one of "the right peo ple." Who are they? The right people are the people who take care never to do anything wrong. Life for the right people is never a dubious battlefield, whose issue is always in doubt It is a step by step operation that goes according to plan their plan. They have no regrets be cause they make no errors. They know exactly what they want nd therefore they get it. The right people are never caught out in a rain because they always have an umbrella along when the clouds clabber up. They marry exactly the right mate for them, and live in the right neighborhood. They never are tempted to skylark on the wrong side of the railroad tracks. They have exactly two martinis before dinner, and it never occurs to them to dare a third. They buy their theater tickets two months ahead of time, and plan their vacation trip two years in advance. And tliey know to a gallon how much gasoline their car will use ,to get them there and back. They go to the right church but they don't listen to the sermon, for how could it ap ply to them7 But they do pause and congratulate the minister afterward, because it's the right thing to do. The right people write the right-sized checks every year to the right charities it makes them feel right to do their bit. But they never toss a quarter to a bum, Just to see his beaten eyes light up like candles. Their clothes are always neatly pressed, their pockets are never stuffed with Junk. Everything for them has a time and place, and if it get out of place it gets put back in its place quick. They always go to the right little restaurant, and are cozily sure how to order Just the right wine. They know the right tip to leave and they never leave a penny more, a penny less. Their check stubs always balance, they are never over drawn at the bank. They never miss a train or a plane, and they know the right time to leave a cocktail party. Peo pie who come to their cock tail parties had better leave at the right time, too, or they won't get invited back. The right people lead lives that are proper, prim and pre' meditated. They tee their dentist twice a year, get a medical checkup every spring, and eat three fresh green vegetables every day. The only thing that ever grabs them by surprise is the com mon cold, their only real link to ordinary catch-at-catch-can humanity. They pay their income tax a month before it it due. They not only have written their wills and bought a plot in a desirable part of the cemetary, but they even know what they want carved on their tombstone. Most men are prisoners of impulse and their Uvea are compromise between an in stinct for some kind of order and a free-wheeling appetite for pure chaos. So it is with my life, and sometimes the patterned security of the right people seems more desirable. But never for long. For the trouble with the right people is they have life all wrong. Their biggest mistake is that they never make one. They are the smug vertical dead, upright but not really alive. They lack the gusty adventure to chase an im possible dream. They are afraid to dream, for fear it will break their little pat terns. The all-purpose vitimin pills they consume each day may keep them healthy as a cow in a meadow of Chlodo pryll. But they never nibble on the green moose cheese of illusion, and it is only by feeding on immortal dreams that a man may nourish his spirit, on a plateau beyond the ken of the cow, and be come a human being. Charlie Grimm, manager of the Milwaukee Braves, play ed in two World Series (1929 and 1932) and hit .389 and .333, respectively. -GREYHOUND lobby group in the nation's cap. Ua,v the National As- soclation of Electrte Companies which doled oui influence congress and the gov- eminent last year. This topped the doctors lob by by about $170,000, though tne juircrivou v- ---- tlon, by taxing every M.D. .v. tinw ranks as tne sec ond largest lobby with a total expend ture to inuuencB t grew last year of $309,514.93. Under the lobbying act these groups, plus private influence wlelders, plus attorneys prac ticing before congress, are re quired to register. There is nnthlne derogatory about such fegistration. The sound prin ciple behind it is to let the pub lic know who is spending the money to swing votes and pass appropriations. During the Hoover adminis tration there was no lobbying registration act and one of the things that helped defeat Hoov er was revelation that the elec tric power lobby its newer name is the National Associa tion of Electric Companies was spending money secretly to influence textbooks, news papers, schools and colleges without tne puwic Knowing u. Today the amount of money spent by the electric power lobby in Washington must be publicly registered ao the Am erican people are better able to Judge what's happening. How ever, the manner in which the lobby pulls wires is still kept about as secret as a classified cable in the Pentagon, though this columnist can report some of the lobby's back-stage oper ations. Secret Wlre-Pullin j The public doesn't realize it. but the utility lobby has been more successful than at any time since Hoover's day and the association of electric com panies deserves credit for more than earning its pay. What the lobby has, done is virtually to write the budget of the interior department so as to cut off $110,000,000 of funds for transmission lines, public power, and irrigation- reclamation projects. This was accomplished by working through congressman Ben F. Jensen of Iowa, chair man of a house appropriations subcommittee and long-time friend of the' private utilities. Jensen has cooperated so close ly with the power lobbyists in the p a s t that Furcell Smith, who draws $85,000 a year plus expenses as top Influence man for NAEC, has actually used the congressman's office. In 1950, when the power lobby as trying to cut government power appropriations, Smith was found secluded in Jensen's office, sending notes to Jensen by messenger while Jensen sat in the house appropriations committee deciding how much should be cut from government funds. More recently the chopping down of the interior depart ment budget with the com plete acquiescence of Secretary of the Interior McKay was so brazen that Congressman H. Carl Anderson of Minnesota, himself a republican, accused Jensen of "selling out" to the private utilities. What the power lobby, plus Secretary McKay, plus the house appropriations commit tee succeeded in doing was to reverse a policy enacted into law by another Republican president, Teddy Roosevelt, in 1906, providing that power from government dams shall be sold with preference rights to cities, states, and other public bodies. Chief Immediate effect of this power-lobby'victory will be to boost future rates to REA co- iUes to purchase government power dirt cneap wunoui su ing to the expense of building the dams. Thus the taxpayer will pay for building future dams and generating tne elec tricity, while private utilities will be able to get the profit from selling the electricity, Hitherto, the government hat kept electric rates down in cer tain areas, auch at the Tennes see valley and the northwest by selling the power liseu, Bir Business Objects Signicantly, tne lirsi people to kick about secretary Mc Kay's new power policy are not the farmers who don't know what's in ttore for them yet- but some of the biggest com panies in the USA They in clude the Aluminum Corpora tion of America, Reynolds Met als and Kaiser Aluminum industries. These and other private con cerns have been getting cheap government power from Bon neville dam in the northwest and from TVA n the soutn. Without cheap power they would be unable to make alum inum at a low enough price to compete with Canadian alum inum, especially now tnat a tariff reduction it in prospect. These three companies now have contracts for government power which expire in the 1960s. However, Secretary of the Interior McKay proposes to sign 20-year contracts with the private utilities giving them the first call on all new power, which may leave the three big aluminum companies out on a limb. The effect may be equal ly serious on smaller indus tries built up in the northwest and the Tennessee valley as a result of cheap power. Washington Pipeline Poland is quietly stepping up its persecution of the Jews, a la Hitler. The Poles have set up a "special bureau for register ing the Polish population of Jewish origin," which is round ing up the Jews and throwing them into labor camps in the Blalystok district . . . Secretary of Commerce Weeks and his under-Becretary in charge of transportation, Robert Murray, have been talking over long range plans to abolish the in terstate commerce commission. They say the railroads are over regulated, and want to take over ICC functions themselves. The closed-door testimony hasn't been released, but army chief of staff General Collins put the finger on the defense department's budget boss, As sistant Secretary W. J. McNeil, as the man chiefly responsible for the ammunition shortage. Collins read into the record a 1951 memo by McNeil, order ing the Joint chiefs to assume the Korean war would end within six months for budget and planning purposes. The Joint chiefs formally protested, but McNeil got then-secretary of defense Lovett to back him up. As a result, the Joint chiefs weren't allowed to figure their ammunition needs for more ,V,lx month In advance. (McNeil is the only key Tru man holdover that the Republi. cans kept on at the Pentagon.) (CowWht, 1MI) Bonus Deadline for Veterans Extended A measure to extend the date for World War n veter ans to file for their Oregon Donus unta December 31, 1953, was signed into law by Gov. Paul Patterson yester day. Officials said they expected about 2,500 aditional applications. Friday. May 8, 1951, CATHOLIC MOTHER The National Catholic Conference on Family Life ' hat named Mrs. Anna Mary Hoffer (above), 83, of Cov ington, Ky., as Catholic Mother of 1953. Three of her four sons are priests and her two daughters are in the sis terhood. (AP Wlrephoto.) THREE MARINES KILLED Washington W) The Mi. rlne Corps said Friday thret Marines were killed Tuesday on an LST in the Hawaiian area of the Pacific when i tank aboard the landing ship shifted suddenly. 1 The longest priced winner of the 1953 Hialeah meeting was Blue Buzz who said $167.40 for each $2 bet wl)tt vimWi vim d wt m doe lo you u funeral Service Since 1171 4mm Mil Sank ! Fwrf SAISM, OtfOON Dodge Sweeps The Field! 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