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'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
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