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BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor and Publisher
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THE GOVERNOR AND
We welcome the governor's decision to sign the snti
plcketing bill passed by the 1953 legislature notwith
standing apparent imperfections that must have caused
him tome doubt before be finally made up nis mma.
The bill, now to become law, contains one section of
very doubtful legality, which bans any picketing, whether
.union inspired or not, regardless or what provocation an
employer might commit to invite it. For instance, an
employer might refuse to pay a worker's wage, yet he
could not, as this bill reads; put a placard on his back
and march up and down outside the employer's place of
business announcing the fact We strongly suspect this
to be an unreasonable interference with freedom of ex
presssion and will not be in the
kick it out the first time they are presented witn a case
involving audt an issue. .
But this la only one section, and court attacks will
provide an adequate remedy if enforcement becomes too
literal. The bin undertakes
not as prevalent as it was,
It is believed that it does
goes too far, as perhaps it does.
Whether it will actually remedy what it seeks to rem
edy no one presently knows, but it represents the best
thought of a legislature which gave the problem a lot of
careful, sincere study. The governor could not bring him
self to bring all this to naught, nor do we think he should.
A veto is to be used sparingly when a governor is firmly
convinced that an enacted measure contains more evil
than good and Is clearly against public policy. For the
legislature, not the governor, is the legislative agency of
the state, and the courts, not the governor, say the final
word on constitutionality
Two years of experience will place the next legislature
in a position to correct such errors as show up in the ad
ministration of the act, and to produce a more workable
measure, ,
TRUCE TALKS STALLED AGAIN
The current Korean truce talks, which opened with
such bright hopes based on an apparently conciliatory
Russian attitude, are stalled again and on the same issue,
what to do with the enemy prisoners in U.N. hands who
do not want to return to communist control.
The United States has taken a firm stand against
turning these men over to murder or slave labor, the
only stand a nation such as ours could take after what
happened to many prisoners we turned over to the Rus
sians after World War U. We cannot yield on it and
expect to enjoy the respect of the world for years to
com.
' But it appears now that the Russians will not allow a
truce except on terms that will enable them to get their
hands on these prisoners. They refuse every offer short
of this : we refuse every plan that enables them to achieve
their aim.
If Malenkov intended a conciliatory course in the open
ing days of his regime which may be doubted his atti
tude is toughening now, not only in Korea but in Europe
as well. Evidently the "peace offensive" was intended
for propaganda purposes with a view of getting the new
Moscow regime off to a good start while power was con
solidated in the hands of the new rulers.
The invasion of Laos is but part of a pattern of com
munist determination not only to hold everything it now
has but to rush on to new conauesta. President Eisen
hower is fully Justified in wanting some evidence of Rus
sian willingness to deal before committing himself to
another of those fruitless "conferences" and the attitude
of the British leaders appears to be inspired by nothing
bigger than domestic political advantage at the expense
oi mi tree world s vital interests.
Gloomy picture? Of course. But we'd better be real.
istic. It is not recorded that
departed while be burled his head in the sand.
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BRITAIN DIGS IN AT SUEZ
Dispatches from Cairo say British troops in the Suez
canal sons are digging trenches in expectation of attack
from the Egyptian army as negotiations between Brit
ain and Egypt reach a stalemate.
. Egypt's rulers, victims of a nationalistic hvsUrfa Rome
of them helped to arouse, do not now dare to make a
realistic settlement which would permit the British to
remain in the canal tone until Egypt is able by herself
to assure its safety from Russian attack in the event
of war.
And the British cannot afford to leave before then.
Nor can the U.S. afford to have them leave. Sues is a
lifeline between the east and west for the whole free
world in the ovent of a new war. Its defense must not
be turned over to a weak, decadent power like Egypt.
The British have besn pig-headed and imperialistic in
the past Egyptians cannot be blamed too much for their
feeling against their former masters. But this is one
time they dare not yield, and Egypt will be perpetrating
an act of criminal folly if she forces the issue.
EUGENE FIGHTS DOG RACING
The law of Oregon empowers the state racing commis
sion to consider local sentiment in deciding applications
for permits to build tracks, and Eugene is taking full
advantage of this in protesting vigorously against an
nounced plans for a dog race track there.
The Eugene city council, tho school board, Springfield
officials and numerous civic groups in both communities
t't00d up 10 """ted. all against the project
Objections include greater trouble and expense in law
enforcement financial loss to local interests by removal
from the locality of the lush gambling profits made by
the outside promoters, and the fear that introduction of
commercial gambling will bring other evils usually asso
ciated with it
vWt mud it the racing commission overrides
this local attitude and grants the license. For if ever
local sentiment has a right to be considered it is on a
proposal of this kind.
Jelas Dairy Great
N. O. Pew, route 1, Sslsm,
Ore., has been named to mem
THE PICKETING BILL
least surprised if the courts
to deal witn an evil, wnicn is
but might become so again.
this. The critics contend it
the ostrich's troubles ever
bership In the American Milk
ing Shorthorn society iccently,
W. J. Hardy, secretary of the
society, has announced.
IT WAS
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Woman's Big Moments Linked
To Tears, Man's to His Ego
By HAL
New York (V-It is the big
moments' that makes our little
lives memorable.
To a woman her wedding
day, the day she gives birth
to her first child, and the day
she buries her huiband
these traditionally have been
the great landmark moments,
although now a fourth is
getting more popular: The day
the Judge gives her alimony.
The big moments with men
are different. When a man
marries he hardly tenses what
Is happening to him. He li
too stunned even to cry
'Help! Let me out of here'
snd he Is In a similar daze
when he first becoms a father.
A woman's treaiured
moment are always allied to
tears, a man s generally are
tied to his peacock pride, to
a goal won.
Perhaps you csn find some
of your best remembered mo
ments among the following:
1. The day you let go of
the sofa and took your firit
uncertain step alone. Lean
ing to walk It the biggest mis
take a little man will ever
make, and naturally he can't
forget It. He will have to wear
shoea the reit of his life, and
never cease tecretly regretting
that he ever got up off the
floor.
S. The day your first tooth
falls out. The gaping cavern
In your mouth leaves a lasting
hole In your mind. It it your
first deep lesson in mortality,
your initial Intimation that
you won't last forever, and
there is no final security .
I. The day your kinder
garten sweetheart breakt the
newt your torrid affair It over,
the It going to marry an older
gup In the first . grade, but
she will always think of you
at a brother. Thlt teachet you
that there it no real justice
in thlt world, honest merit is
rarely recognized, and tex is
a snare.
4. The day you put away
your marbles end put on your
first pair of long pants. Mow
you are sure at Inst you will
really grow up, and you won'
der why dad laughs and
mother we pi.
S. The day you cash your
first paycheck and know that
never again will you ever
ask anybody for money. Ex
cept maybe your boss, the bank
and your father-in-law.
6. The day your girl gives
you a present. This both thrills
and terrifies you, because if
you have any brain at all ou
know by now that a woman
doesn't spend her money on
a man for nothing, and sooner
or later she will catch you.
7. The frightening day
when, heart in mouth, you tell
your employer you'll have to
get more money or look for
another job and he gives you
your first raise.
It Is only IS, but no amount
of money you ever made after
wards will give you as much
satisfaction. You have dared
the lion in his den and won.
I. The day your eon beats
up the kid next door. After
four generations of black
eyes. It is nice-to know the
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with someone who can do
some thing besides fight lost
csuses.
9. The day you win a
Thanksgiving turkey In the
office raffle. It Is wonderful to
know that, after all, your luck
can turn, and maybe life
really hasn't got you behind
the 8-ball forever.
10. The day when, after 33
years of losing arguments
with your wife, the suddenly
crumblet and says, "Dear. I
am wrong and you are
absolutely right. Levi do as
you say.
This brings your life to a
peak. After that there isn't
much left for a man except
to take hit pension, start baby
sitting for his grandchildren
and look fondly back through
the gathering mist at his big,
big moments.
Salem 52 Years Ago
ly IEN MAXWELL
May II, 1101
President McKlnley had
abandoned hit trip to the
Northwest due to Illness of
Mrs. McKlnley.
United States Navy found
wireless telegraphy feasible.
recommended its adoption and
proposed to abandon the ute
of carrier pigeons.
A five year hop contract at
11 cents spelled prosperity for
this section.
Albany toll bridge was net
ting about $200 a month.
me government lr.ule was
well fed and cared for as com
pared with the fourth clan
postmaster.
Grand Court of Oregon for
esters of America held its final
session at Salem.
Buren & Hamilton had just
received 10 new designs of go
carts. "It behooves all mothers
to get out in the air and sun
shine with the little one."
Alderman and Mrs. S. J
Eagon of Woodburn were ir
Salem. Mr. Eagon was an ad'
vocate of the popular loan
system of finance but Wood
burn has not debt enough to
apply the remedy.
John A. Aupperle had con
tracted for the Jefferson flour
ing mill and was surveying the
property lines.
Thursday evening session of
the State Sunday school con'
ventlon met at the First Meth
odist church and the attend
ance was very large.
Friedman's New Racket
store, corner of State and Com
ON THf
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WHY DOO RACES?
Albany Democrat-Herald
We hope the Eugene city
council will reject the request
to permit operation of a dog
racing track in the University
city. The dog races serve no
purpose other than to provide
another avenue of gambling.
The races themselves are about
the lrriducible minimum in
sport They're over In a flash,
before the spectator can get set
for a good look. The animals
are small and hard to distin
guish.
The races would provide an
other way to divert silly money
out of the town. We wouldn't
care much if the money could
always be lost by those who
can afford to lose, but the
groups we saw at the betting
windows at the Portland races
Included many who looked as
if they were trying to win the
grocery bill.
Wouldn't It be a lot better to
promote good baseballT Or is
there a tort of "Gresham't law"
in sport whereby the unworthy
crowds out the worthy? Any
how, we hate to tee It made to
easy for people to go to the
dogs. -
mercial streets: Men clay
worsted suits, $9; Scotch tweed
suits, $8. A well made and
neat looking suit of Oregon
serge, $4.80 to $9.
F. I. Dunbar, secretary of
state, was asking bids for 400
cordt of fir wood for utace at
the statehouse.
Portia Knight, who was
suing the Duke of Manchester
for breach of promise, did not
demand any specific amount
but said the had suffered dam
age through the duke's promise
to marry her. Miss Knight was
n actress. (Portia was the
daughter of Col. N. B. Knight
who came to Salem about 1867
and for a time was William P.
Lord's law partner. Colonel
Knight married Miss Sarah
Miller in 1871. Portia, the ac
tress, was one of three chil
dren. At the time of his death
In Salem, February 18, 1902,
Colonel Knight was only re
cently returned from England
where he had conducted his
daughter's tult.)
Irate Bartender Bites
Off Patron's Nose
San Francisco li.B Samuel
Sedeno's profile was reported
in good shape today after his
nose was bitten off by an irate
bartender Saturday night.
, Patrolmen John Bird and
Martin Roddy reported they
found the missing piece of nose
was bitten off by an irate bar
tender Saturday night.
Patrolmen John Bird and
Martin Roddy reported they
found the missing piece of
nose under a juke box. Doc
tors who put It back on said
today It was regrowlng.
HIGHWAY
WAY IS...
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Penniless Texas Lobbyist '
Rose Like Meteor in Wash!
YDEW
Washington The supreme
ceurt decided to review a case
the other day which had noth
ing to do with the Rosenberg
Greenglass atomic spy death
sentence, but did have a great
deal to do with Irving Kauf
man, the Judge who sentenced
them to death. It also had a
areat deal to do with one of the
greatest perennial problems of
the nation'a capital keeping
track of lobbyists.
The story It more colorful
than that of the atomic spies
and not so sordid.
It goes back to a period just
before Pearl Harbor when a
genial gentleman wearing a
broad-brimmed hat with only
a few dollars in his pocket came
up from Texas, leaving behind
a none too savory reputation.
After only six years In Wash
ington, this columnist found
him on a first-name basis with
various senators. A heavy spec
ulator on the Chicago commod
lty market, the owner of 7,000
acres of cotton land around
Granger, Texas, 1,800 acres and
700 cattle near San Antonio,
plus a 531-acre farm near
Poolesville. Md.
The gentleman in uuestlon Is
ebullient, back-slapping, fast'
talking Ralph Moore, whose
meteoric rise at a capital lob'
byist illustrates bow a man
with a happy smile, a ball-bear
ing tongue and plenty of gall
can roll up a fortune overnight.
Hit career also illustrates how
a smart operator could manip
ulate the commodity market
when millions in Europe were
starving.
'Moore is delightfully frank
about his career. Visited in his
converted office building at
1707 N Street, the gentleman
from Texas tat against a back
drop of mounted longhorns,
handsome paintings and ornate
gray-green draperies.
"I never have to bribe any
body," he bragged. "It s a bad
practice. I just show them how
to make a little money. If you
give a man $300 or $1,000 he
feels like he owes you some
thing and that you are trying
to bribe him. But if you just
show him bow to make money,
he doesn't feel like he owes
you anything. That's what I do
with my contacts. That's what
I would do with you if I trusted
you."
SENATORS SPECULATE
Asked whether he handled
the grain speculations of any
senators, Moore said that he
did not, but that several of
them had speculated and usual
ly operated through Bache &
Co. In Washington, or Harriss
It Vose In New York.
"I expect I have more friends
on Capitol Hill than anyone
else In town," expanded the
genial Texan, looking out his
window at his Belgian court
beneath.
On the wall beside his desk
hung a picture of Ralph Moore
with officials of the Jack &
Heintz war plant in Cleveland,
another picture showing Moore
with Senators Thomas of Okla
homa, Bankhead of Alabama
and others dining at the May-i
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flower hotel, and so on.
"Making money is easy,
continued Moore, "if you know
what the market is going to
do. I'll make you some money
right away and It won't cost
you a -dime, if you'll go easy
on me. But I'm afraid of you.
Vm afraid vou might put it in
the paper. If I could only trust
you, I could maae you quiw
few thousand dollars In a hur
ry." THREATENED TO KILL
There came a time when the
genial gentleman from Texas
did not feel quite so expansive
toward this columnist, in fact
there came a time when Ralph
sent word he was going "to
shoot that so-and-so Pearson'
if he kept on digging into hit
commodity-market speculation
on behalf of Senator Elmer
Thomas of Oklahoma.
Thlt was about the time
Judge Kaufman entered the
picture. Irving Kaufman was
not a Judge then. He wat a
rather green, hard-working,
conscientious young attorney
who had come down from New
York on the somewhat thank
less job of enforcing the new
lobbying registration act
That act had just been put
on the books as a result of in
fluence peddlers who flocked
to Washington during the lush
days of the new deal, preying
both on unsuspecting business
men and unsuspecting senators.
Finally congress decided that
while there wat no way to abol
ish lobbying, it was only fair
to make all lobbyists register,
so the public would know who
they were. This was In accord
with the foreign agents regis
tration act, which requires at
torneys and representatives for
foreign embassies to register to
the public may identify them.
Kaufman grabbed hold of the
Ralph Moore case with gusto.
when It wat placed before him,
and made It the first test of
the new lobbying act Moore
was indicted, along with Tom
Linder of Georgia and J. E.
McDonald of Texas for failing
to register as lobbyists while
pulling wires snd trying to in
fluence senators.
Moore, particularly, had been
found up to his armpits at a
speculating partner of Senator
Thomas of Oklahoma. Partly
as a result Thomas was defeat
ed for re-election.
Also partly as a result young
Irving Kaufman was appointed
to the U. S. district court in
New York where fate later
handed him the difficult atom
spy case In which for the first
time In American history a
death sentence wat given for
treason. '
But after Kaufman had gone
up to the court in New York,
a Washington judge, Alexan-i
der Holtzoff, ruled against him
and hit first test case of the
lobbying act Holtzoff ruled
that the lobbying act wat un
constitutional and that Moore
et al did not have to register.
The other day, however, the
supreme court indicated that it
felt differently. It agreed to re-
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SAUAL OMOON
Friday, May 15, 1ISS
OPEN FORUM
This Writer Prefers
Government. Projects
To the Editor:
All business In a democratic
country begins with public
permission and exists by pub
lic approval. That being true,
business should tell the pub
lic what Its policies are, what
it is doing and what It hopes
to do.
The control of water for
any purpose determines the
welfare of localities and na
tions. It is a public need for
every form of occupation.
Deserts have been made by
lack of water, and deserts
made into garden spots by the
control of applied water. What
method is used requires a
certain amount of operational
expense to manage efficiently
whether it it for private ben
efit or public use.
Under private management,
the immediate profits to a
small group of investors. In
the shortest time at the least
expense It the dominating
motive, under public devel
opment long range future wel
fare of the greatest number of
people, enabling them to se.
cure food to prevent famine,
power to work with and im
prove living conditions is the
object sought, undertakings
have become so massive and
financially expensive, that
only the resources of the gov
ernment can carry to comple
tion undertakings that become
necessary for the welfare of
the people.
Private investors strive to
dominate and control a pub
lic requirement to extract
profit by excessive charges
over the cost of building and
operation of any development
that the public uses. Water
and power come under that
heading. The persistent snd
vicious attacks made upon
public operation of these de
velopments by management of
private utilities, without tell
ing what it hopes to do and
why proves that it hopes to
force the public to pay ex
cessive charges for the use of
public need.
The public has to decidt
whether it wants to pay
monopoly charges to build
profits for a small group of
investors or to build for their
own benefit The private in
terests do not dare to lay their
purpose open to the public for
comparison as to benefits to
be secured.
HERBERT DENNETT,
266 S. Cottage St,
Salem, Oregon.
TAKES IT TO 'EM
Hollywood QMS Television
actress Sara Boner's ctr
caught fire yesterday. But she
didn't call firemen. She took
the fire to them. Miss Berner
drove to Engine Company 78
and they put out the blaze.
view the first test case of the
lobbying act initiated by Judge
Kaufman, and the decision de
claring the act unconstitutional
by Judge Holtzoff. Upon this
review will hang the important
question of whether the public
hat a right to know the identity
of those who pull wires and in
fluence people in Washington. '
(CoprrWht, 1MI
1878
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