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BLOOD MONEY?
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METAMORPHOSIS OF THE SALOON
Oblivious pf the lessons of the past, Oregon is trying
Mother "noble experiment," in the guise or "iiquor-py-
the-drink" which is merely a, costly refinement of the
old saloon, which was the inspiration of national prohi
bition. The main difference is that instead of paying
10, 12V4 or 15 cents for an alcoholic drink, as in the old
days, the cost has climbed to from 60 cents to a dollar.
And the fair sex is served at the "cocktail bars" as well
as the sterner sex.
For some years, the gradual relaxation of prohibition
has permitted the serving of liquor by the glass provided
the imbibers furnished the liquor in bottled form, and
merely paid for the serving as much as the bottle cost,
and the new law merely saves this inconvenience, uuds
and other social organizations will not have to require
members to keen their booze in club lockers.
Prohibition failed, as most compulsory laws fail in a
democracy, through public resentment and bred worse
evils in the moonshiners, bootleggers, beer racketeers,
, home brew and bathtub gin. It introduced liquor into the
household and hotel room and initiated women, barred
usually in old saloons, into the drinking habit.
One of the amusing developments of the liquor-by-the-
drink inauguration is the free press publicity the "cock
tail bars" are receiving from newspapers which ar
dently espoused the "noble experiment." In the old
days all the publicity the venders of liquor received was
in the police court and the wet editors or the dry papers
pictured on front pages the "Carrie Nation raids" by
mayors of the cities who wielded sledges on Dottiea cneer.
The wet legislators who always voted dry welcomed the
lobbyist dispensing costly bootleg like a long lost mend.
- Oregon's metropolitan press has devoted more space
to the "liquor-by-the-drink" revival than they have to the
Korean war. Every step in the new liquor legislation
has been minutely heralded in top front page news, the
list of licensees repeatedly printed and photos and car
toons have illustrated the momentous and historic event
and lauded it editorially.
Moreover, the new saloon, instead of being pictured
a hell-hole as in days gone by, has been lechrfstened
with the euphonious label of "Oasis" in the desert of life
and its patronage pictured as a social distinction, for only
the well-heeled can enjoy its plush luxury and pay for it.
Apparently the only reason new bars are operated in
emidarkness is to prevent the thirsty patrons from
watching the clumsiness of the amateur bartenders in
their various concoctions for bartending used to be an
exact science and few of the old guard have survived the
nearly 40 yean of Oregon "dryness." G. P.
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Hal Boyle Writes of His
Mother and Her Struggles
By HAL IOYLE
ARMED FORCES DAY
This if Armed Forces Day, on which Salem is paying
well deserved tribute to the men and women who de
dend we civilians from foreign attack.
To serve the country when summoned to the colors is
ne of the obligations of citizenship which our young
men have been required to assume on a large scale in
these post-war years, many of them a second time when
they have reason to feel that their obligation had been
liquidated, barring all-out war which hasn't occurred
as yet
Several million men and their families have been pain
fully disrupted these past few years, families broken
up, the men sent to Korea or, Germany; to face deadly
danger from which not all return. They are paying a
heavy price for their American citizenship which comes
relatively free to the rest of us.
It is right that they should be honored for what they
are doing, but the honor shouldn't be confined to this one
day. It should be felt every day of the year.
VOTE FOR THE SCHOOL BUDGET
We had not intended to comment editorially on the
annual school budget election tomorrow afternoon, made
necessary by Oregon's six per cent limitation. We've
heard no suggestion that the additional $719,769 to be
authorized has any general opposition. There is no sug
gestion whatever that it won t be approved as it has
been in previous years.
But it will probably be approved with a pitifully small
vote cast, li past precedent here and elsewhere means
anything. This means that a mere handful of neonle.
posibly one per cent of the electorate, could defeat the
levy if it chose and force the district to hold another
election.
The majority, which rules in America if it asserts it
self, but not unless it does, exposes itself to minority
rule when it fails to go to the polls. Tomorrow will be
a good time to put a resolution to vote at every election
In effect, and keep it in effect. No election is unim
portant.
SOUND PUBLIC POLICY
We assume that Attorney General Robert Thornton's
ruling that a property lease by the state from a member
f the state senate is invalid to be sound law because it
has long been an accepted legal principle in English speak
ing countries that an official cannot do business with the
governmental entity in which he is an official.
TTiia means that a mayor or councilman cannot buy
from or sell to the city, a county commissioner cannot
engage in business with the county, or a governor or other
state official with the state. The wisdom of this is ap
parent at a glance and we imagine a court would so hold
even in tne absence of any statutory enactment
According to Thornton there is a decision by the Ore
ton Supreme Court bearing directly on the question,
wnim eiiuuiu ciear any question concerning the current
instance and any of its kind in the future.
Quite likely the state suffered no loss in the deal at
North Bend, but let the practice go unchallenged and it
would soon be repeated and then repeated some more.
Eventually loss would be sustained, and even more impor
tant, loss of standards in the public service.
Kansas City (n Once a f Irl
Is a mother she Just hat to keep
on growing something.
Well. If you ever bought a
house and tried to grow grass
around it, I'd like to have you
meet my mother. .
She has been trying to grow
grass around a house for more
than 30 years. You can't sell
her the Brooklyn Bridge, but
II you can convince her you
grew grass on that bridge the
will bargain for the seed.
All Mom started with was
the fact ot a fair, green, clean
lawn or, in her time, a mea
dow quiet and undisturbed.
And I suppose the hat always
had a yearning to get back to
the peace of it So the goes
on planting . . . some dty to
get back.
She was the eldest of nine
Irish girls and an Irish boy,
born on an Irish farm where
Irish bride Jutted above the
stones of Irish poverty.
The girls came over to help
ttle heathen America, all
nine of them. It wat t it b?y
who stayed at home to keep
England from owning til of
Ireland, and tilled the ttony
land and died there, while hit
tlttert lived acro the tf.
And there Trst a grat raowu
to greet t'.io iirli whet, tbty
reached the United Sta'is all
gathered at ElMs Ii'.trd, erd all
trying to get In, too.
I have patted the Statue of
Liberty many timet in my life,
going and coming, and think I
own a pari o! it. Mr mother
hat never taken li for granted.
She tiat nevt-r patted it going
the other way, and doetnt
want to. Vher ihe mentions
the Statue of Liberty her mouth
frtmet a kist.
But Mama did bring from
Ireland something the it al
wayt reaching back to to her
the dream ot the fair lawn ot
youth. She hat alwayt kept a
green farm thumb in the city,
and a tweet growing mind. She
htt liked to tee thing! comt
to flower, including
can't hire kids today to mow
it, but she hat alwayt attacked
the grill herself, though her
face growt red and the hat
been told not to do It My sis
ter Dolores, when she hears
her pulling the lawn mower
out of the basement, goes down
and says, "Mama, now you
know better. Stop it."
But nobody can stop Mama
from putting in her tomato
plants. Wonderful crop last
year. I have ottered to take
her back for a viiit to Ireland,
and see again the farm she was
born on. She tayt:
"Ireland Isn't modern. I
would rather tee the rett of
America."
But you know how passion
ate a feeling for growth the
people from the old country
have. Mama hat had five
children, she hat been a widow
for IS years, she Is 69 yean
old, and the It down to "a
green thumb."' But the hat to
go on raising something.
Just the other day she was
tired and sat down on a bench
in the back yard. And the
things that understand Mama,
the children and the dogt that
ruin the lawn the it trying to
bring back from an over-wet
spring, clustered around her.
There it within her such a
mixture of "scat-you-get-out-of-here"
and "come-back-you-know-I-Iove-you."
And a lit
tle girl from the next block,
nuzzling up to her, said:
"Mrs. Boyle, why does your
family make you work so hard
OW MA NT NOTICED?
Corrallls Caiette-Tlmet
Wonder how many local Tru
sntnites noticed that Pretldent
Iltenhower flew to New York
Thursday (to make talks at two
JtepubUcaa meetings) in a
chartered commercial plane.
This It the firit time in twenty
yetrt that our chief executives
have not used government
transportation for purely politi
cal purposes.
Sal em 26 Years Ago
ly UN MAXWILL
Msy 14, 1927
Federal Water Service of
New York will purchase Sa
lem's water plant, now a prop
erty of Salem Light and Pow
er Co. Purchne price it under
stood to be $850,000. The new
ownership will operate under
the name of Oregon-Washing-
ton Water Service Corp. since
the owners have also acquired
we Hoquiam water plant.
Rodgers Paper Co. has start
ed construction of a new home
on the west tide of Front ttreet
between Center and Marlon
streett to house their expand
ing businett. The project rep
resents an Investment of near
$20,000.
Straw hat day was observed
at the secretary of state's office
yesterfiay. Men's regular head
gear was locked in the vault
and they were obliged to wear
ancient ttrtw lids or none when
i uivy wen i out ior lunrn. 'i h.
hr five, straws of the lann.min .
children, and his never licked were obtained by the women
m energy w kic a duo. into irom local merchants.
bloom.
But It Is that fair green lawn
she yearnt for. And to for 32
yeart the has fought to make
a lawn before, behind, and
around and elht-room, old
fashioned house here which
Did bought for 13,000. Mom
now threateni to give it away
and actually it willing to part
with it for 11,000,000 in cold
cath, no sentiment Involved.
The spring has been rainy in
the Midwest and the grass has
come up In patches. All dogs
and children In the neighbor
hood are afraid ot Mama, and
they love her, too, because
when she It strong she orders
them off the possible lawn of
her dreams, end when she Is
tired she sits down In the old
scabby back yard and will talk
to them.
Mama has always been that
way. When she rtitet her
voice, everybody runs away.
When she it weary, everybody
wants to cluster around her.
This is the hardest single fact
about one human being I have
ever tried to figure out She
is 83 and I am 42, and I still
don't know how the can bost
children and dogt that wty,
and make them aU love her.
She fights that lawn so hard
we have to forbid her the
Prominent very young peo
ple of Salem were entertained
at a delightful dance in Derby
hall last night when Mrs. Ralph
White wat hostess to members
of her junior ballroom dancing
class. This will be their last
event In Derby hall. Next fall
they will meet In the new Nel-
ton burning.
Next week, tayt a Capital
Journal editorial, Kimball
tchool of theology will conduct
its tnnutl drive for fundi to
carry on work for another year.
The response should be gener
ous, for the college, the only
one of lis kind in the north
west Is an asset to Salem.
Fanchon & Marco presents
Follies Idea at the Elsinore on
Sunday and Monday. Featured
will be Doris Eaton, Frank
Stevert and "30 Serpentine
Beauties."
Wlllys-K night, McDonald
Auto Co. The engine Improves
with use: "30,000 miles engine
expense nothing."
Plans for a cooperative hon
ey marketing organization are
heinff brectft anH sll Vim.
keepers have been invited to a !
wuiur.mn MERRY-GO-ROUND
U. S. and Franco Finally
Concluding Deal for Bases
Y DUIWflARSOM
wihlnton After almost
one year of diplomatic dicker
in ih United States is con
cluding an agreement with Dic
tator Franco for air and naval
bases on Spanish sou. tsui in
order to pin Franco down, U.
R. negotiators had to promise
secretly sn additional future
$400,000,000. This It on top
of the gl87.500.000 already
vntiHl him by congress, and
will make a total ot $587,500,-
000.
on factor which nudged
Franco'! elbow was knowledge
that cart of his money tne
$123,000,000 voted by congresi
last year wat about to expire.
If th contract wasn't signed
by June 80, Franco knew that
this $125,000,000 went right
back into the treasury to help
balance the Eisenhower bud
get. And Franco Isn't much
Interested in balancing Ike's
budget or anyone's except bis
own.
Thlt is another chapter in
government by Washington at
torneys and illustrates now
certain lawyers representing
foreign embassies sometimes
exert more Influence thin the
state department '
One year ago, both the state
department and the White
House, which under the con
stitution ire entrusted with the
conduct ot U. S. foreign affairs,
Informed congress that they
did not want or need bases In
Spain. They pointed out that
we had all we could do to equip
bases in France, England and
western Europe under the
NATO pact, and that we were
already short on artillery and
munitions. If supplies went
to non-NATO Spain, they said,
it would create ill will both in
Korea and among our NATO
allies to whom deliveries al
ready were behind schedule.
Fays to Have Lawyers
They also pointed out that
Franco was not willing to take
the Spanish army outside
Spain; that the arming of Spain
would make it appear to
France and England that we
were going to abandon them,
in case of attack, and move to
Spain. From behind the safe
ty of the Pyrenees, the French
and British argued, the United
States would serenely watch
the conflict while the rest of
in the back yard?"
Mama is laughing yet at Europe was swept over by Red
that 'Invaders.
Despite this, rranco got
i4nno.noo. It was- voted
him by congress right over the
heads of the president snd sec
retary of state.
Chief reason for this wss the
persuasive influence of the Spa
nish lobby and Franco's two
attorneys. Charles Patrick
Clark and Max Trujtt son-in-law
of ex-Vice President Bark
ley. Clark, who carefully com
plies with the foreign agents
registration set, was paid $103,
4SS.55 by Franco in 1851 and
$78,500 in 1032, according to
the Justice department's list
ing of foreign sgents. Msx
Trultt who slso registers un
der the act, wss more modest
He got only $22,000 In 1951
snd $11,000 in 1862.
However, Clark helped to
Influence congressional
speeches, played gin rummy
with key congressmen, threw
fancy parties, ran the gamut
of the social lobby to get con
gress to vote money for Spain.
He succeeded.
That was why Franco, pre
viously arandUoauent In his
promises of naval and air bases,
suddetly got cagey, refused to
grant uxose bases. He xigurea
he could go over the heads of
the White House and the state
department once again
thanks to tie new Washington
system of -.foreign affairs by
influential attorneys.
It now looks as if he was
right. Another $400,000,000
is due to come his way.
SANDWICHED SPEAKER
Senator Taft was speaking
at a YrJe club dinner, along
with GOP Sen. Prescott
Bush o. Connecticut and New
York Herald Tribune Pundit
August Heckscher.
The large crowd of Yale
alumni t the dinner were ex
pecting to hear a few brief re
marks from Bush and from
Heckscher, then settle down
for a real speech from Yale't
most famout alumnus, Robert
Alphonso Taft, who in addition
to graduating from oM Ell, also
served on its board of trustees.
However, they hadn't reck
oned on Heckscher. Following
a speech from Senator Bush, he
held forth eloquently on acade
mic freedom. Minutes ticked
by, then quarter hours, almost
an hour. Senator Taft tat, lis
tened politely.
The hands of the clock
Thursday, Hay 14, 1951
reached 11:10. "I am honor,
ed," tald Heckscher, "to h
uoowiLiicu w Between t9
tuck distinguished speakers as
Senators Bush and Taft." j-j,
nally he sat down.
Ex-Sen. John Danaher of
Connecticut, toattmsster of th
evening, rose.
' "Mr. Heckscher refers to be
ing that part of a sandwich be
tween two pieces of bread," h
said. "Let's agree that he cer.
tainly must be regarded as tht
Baloney between two slices of
good bread."
OIL AND NATIONAL DEBT
. It was lost in the last-mlnut
voting on the Tidelands oil
BUI, but Sen. Matt Neely of
West Virginia, who has beta
in public office almost longer
than anyone else in Washing,
ton, Introduced his construe,
tlve amendment for the use of
Tidelands oU funds.
He proposed 't hat royalties
from Tidelands oil go not i
three states as finally voted by
the GOP leadership, but it foi.
lows:
Ten per cent to reduce tu
national debt
Ten per cent for education.
Ten per cent for findln
cure for heart disease.
Ten per cent to find a eur.
for muscular dystrophy.
xen per cent xor multinia
sclerosis.
Ten pes cent for polio.
Ten per cent for the blind.
Ten per cent for disabled war
veterans.
Ten per cent for the Ame'ri.
can Red Cross.
Neely's amendment tot a
larger vote than most of the
other Tidelands amendments.
However, even If it had beta
introduced earner, it would
not have passed. No amend,
ment would have swayed tht
coalition of republicans and
southern coastal democrats de
termined to give Tidelands oil
back to three states.
Had Secretary of the Tress,
ury Humphrey made his state,
ment about hiking the limit
ot the national debt a little
earlier, some votes might have
been changed; because giving
away the vast wealth of tht
Tidelands wss, of course, re
ducing the wealth of the fed
eral government However, it
wat significant that Humphrey
did not testify until the Tide,
lands vote was already taken.
(capTtuiii. mi
THREW TEETH AT HER
Boston (UK Mrs. Robert R.
Hapgood was granted an un
contested divorce yesterday af
ter she testified her husband
used to take out his upper plate
and throw it at her.
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