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Put 4 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. Salem, Oreron Thursday, July 2, 195S Capital AJournal An trdeperderNewipoper Estoblished 1888 BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor ond Publisher i. GEORGE PUTNAM, Editor Emeritus Published every afternoon exceDt Sunday at 444 Che meketa St., Salem. Phones: Business, Newsroom, Wont Ads. 2-2406; Society Editor. 2-2409. M mtn tmttm fka IniHlUa Ptm tm Tto VMHtt PrML tlM aMomatas rraai to u)alvl7 rauud la ibi In auUttaUaa at , all am aUiMtehM analta! la II at atharalM trdlto4 ta tali aaiat aa4 SUBSCRIPTION RATISi Br CaRtart amour. II Mi V Jioatlu. ri Wi on Taa 111 M (7 Kan a Mum Hlk. Uaa. Baalaa. Claeiamai aa4 TanalU coaailat- ataalhlr. Wei Su lieallia, m mi oaa law. M M. Bt Mall aiManara la Oraaoa: UaatalT, II at, BU auaua, WW. Oaa Ttar. 1 11.0a Ij Mall OllUUa Oiwaa ataaiall. llJai au ataatW tt-all TREASURY DEFICIT MOUNTS Official figures issued by Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey reveal that the government's deficit for the fiscal year ending June 30 was for more than estimated and totals 19,389,000,000, and as Humphrey says "emphasizes the need for continued strenuous ef forts to get our fiscal house in order." The deficit is the highest In U.S. history, except for the two world war periods, more than double the 1952 deficit and shows what a task the Eisenhower adminis tration has in its efforts to balance the budget. And con gress is not cooperating by fighting Ike's cuts in defense and interior spending which are being vigorously opposed by the democrats. Humphrey warns the public not to expect miracles. He said : "Difficulties of this size cannot be cured over night To bring this situation under control will take many months of vigorous cooperative effort on the part or the administration, the congress and the people." Congress is cooperating hy cutting down the huge for eign aid plan, but balking on trimming the big defense appropriations. The dencit emphasizes the necessity of extending the excess profits tax for six months as asked by Ike. Taxes cannot be reduced without slashing ex penditures wherever possible in the effort to reach balanced budget The nation's expenditures for the fiscal year were over 74.6 billion, its receipts $65.2 billion, and the national debt has eilmbed to over f 266.1 billion. G. P. CONGRATULATIONS, SENATORS The Salem Senators have won the first half champion ship of the Western International league and clinched a spot in the postseason layoffs. This will be a series with the second half winner unless the second half winner is Salem, in which case a playoff with the Western league champion is possible. In any vent Salem fans will witness a post-season playoff in which the Senators will compete for further honors. The Senators looked very good in their preseason tilts and local hopes were high as the regular schedule opened. However, the Senators soon settled deep into the second division. They were in tenth place two months ago and it looked like the old war cry "wait till next year" wquld have to be resorted to here. Then the Senators found themselves and began to rise, with 15 victories in the last 17 games, all but five of which were on, the road. It was a remarkable showing and Salem fans, who've never had so much as a half interest in the pennant before, are happy, TROUBLE IN PARADISE Jt m v VtA--W'(T rt4i WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND East German RevolGives America Great Opportunity BY DREW PEARSON -TO POO MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Trouble With Vacation Is You Have to Brag About It By HAL BOYLE Hometown, U.S.A. ff One, hands out for tips. the worst things about a vacation is the fact that when you get back home you have brag about what a swell time you had, whether you really did or not Wilbur Feeble, America's average man, decided this year he simply wouldn't do it. So the first thing he did on returning to work after his vacation wai to climb up on hli desk and call out: Fellow employest Will you Now a final word. With better baseball weather over-1 please gather around? I have due, let us show our appreciation with better attendance than we have given the club up to now. Continuance of league baseball in Salem will depend upon it WHY THE OUTCRY? We find ourselves unable to join in the general outcry against a foeKcent letter postage rate, possibly because we are old enough to remember what other things cost when the letter rate was two cents. To refresh the memories of younger persons, a working man received a dollar and a half a day, a white collared salaried man about f 50 a month in the heyday of the two cent letter postage rate in the' early years of the century. Other things were on a comparable basis. The price level has since been hiked at least 400 per cent and some things ten-fold, yet postage is up only 60 per cent Naturally the post office department runs an enormous deficit and probably would even without all the free stuff it carries for other government departments. Why wouldn't-it? How can anybody carry a letter from here to New York for three cents Bnd break even? Postmaster General Summerfield's four cent letter postage proposal is one of many things the federal gov ernment needs to do to get itself on a sound, solvent basis. We dislike seeing things we have to buy increased in price as much as the next chap, but we won't protest an increase as obviously justified as this one. DOUGLAS IMPEACHMENT FIZZLES . While we still see no sense in Justice Douglas' puzzling stay of execution for the Rosenbergs, we welcome the promptness, with which a house subcommittee squelched Georgia Congressman Wheeler's abortive move to im peach Douglas. The committee listened to Wheeler, who is not a lawyer, argue his point, then told him he had made no case and no impeachment was In order. The subcommittee chair man told him: "I'm afraid that as a layman you have not fully comprehended the depth of these charges in a legal sense which we lawyers know and understand," But an ordinary layman should understand that an erroneous ruling on a legal point, if such it was, consti tutes no "high crime" or even a "misdemeanor." If a judge could be impeached for this no judge would re main in office six months. Wheeler's move was a publicity seeking device, and it ucceeded, though what good this kind of publicity does anyone is beyond the average person's comprehension. ions of Trees ForWindbreaks Farmers In the state of Ore gon planted nearly four mil lion forest tree seedlings dur int the period 1949-1953 tor windbreaks, reforestation and Christmas tree plantations. This total Just about equal led the Christmas tree harvest during the same period. Douglas fir was the favorite tree with a total of 1.421.300 shipped from the nursery. Tort Orford cedar was also in big demand with a total output of 800,000 seedlings. Other species In the higher brackets Included white and noble fir. 370,000; ponderosa pine l48,IW(4wmVa ttf.oeb and black locust 187,000. ' Marion county residents planted the most trees during the four year period with SSI, 000 seedlings. Multnomah was second with 343,000, followed by Clackamas with 327,000 in third place; Lane county was fourth with 200,000 and Coos fifth with 271.000. Least ac tive of the state's 38 counties was Wheeler with only 400 seedlings planted during the four years. MANILA FLOODED Manila W Torrential rains and high tides flooded large areas of Manila Thursday as a roaring typhoon skirted the island cluster off the northern Philippines. The huge storm with winds of 14S miles an hour at Its cen ter was headed, toward For-inosa,'- an Important message." The surprised office staff Immediately clustered around his desk, including the boss. Leroy J. McFumble, who had been standing at the door and scowling at employes late for work. Mr. McFumble always did this on the days he him' self got in on time. "Ordinarily a man wastes the first week he gets back from a vacation answering quesuons about where he went and what he did." said Wil bur. "Nobody really cares what kind of a vacation he had, but everybody thinks it is polite to ask. "So I am going to save you all that breath by telling you here and now about my vaca tion. That way. we can get the whole subject over in five minutes. "I had a lousy "Vacation. Trellis Mae, that's my wife, and I stayed at a place called Quagmire Heighta-by-the-Sea. It ia run by a retired bank robber, judging from the prices. The food was so awful that Trellis Mae went to bed for a week after the first meal. It rained all 'day 11 of the 14 daya we were there. . The only book in the hotel library was 'The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore.' I read It four times, and then began to dream about It at night. "One day I played golf with a stranger, and he suggested a small side bet of 5 a hole just to make it Interesting. This only coat me $43, as I decided not to play the sec ond nine holes. 'The other two days I went swimming. The doctor says my sunburn la healing nicely, but I warn you that if you slap me on the back you lose a friend. "We took some color pho tos, but I don't intend to make you look at them. Looking at somebody else's vacation snap shots is about as exciting as staring through a restaurant window at other people eat ing." At this point the office em ployes broke into applause. "Now, are there any ques tions?" asked Wilbur. "Y-y-yes." said a stenog rapher. "Isn't one of your eyes discolored, Mr. PeebleT Did you meet with an acci dent?" "It isn't discolored," said Wilbur, drawing a deep breath. "It's a black eye. No, t didn't bump into a door in the dark. I got it from a wait er. "This waiter spilled a plate of soup on my white dinner jacket. When I got ready to leave the whole hotel staff stood there in line with their Well. I went down the line putting $5 bills in this forest of palms until I came to the waiter. Just as a joke, I put in his hand the $1.S0 bill the clean ers sent me for taking the soup out of my jacket. Well, he dian't think it was funny, and one word led to another. I was doing all right at first. I had my left thumb caught in his teeth and was swinging with my right, when my foot slipped. When I came to, I had this black eye. Any more questions? If not, let's consider my vacation a closed matter. I would like to forget it, too." The group of listeners ap plauded Wilbur again, then went back to their desks, shaking their heads at the memory of his terrible ordeal. A few moments later Wilbur was summoned into the boss' office. "Feeble," said Mr. McFum ble. "I think you had better take a week oft to rest up from your vacation. But do me a favor, will you? Spend it at home." Why?" asked Wilbur. 'Well," said hU boss, "if you come back and scare those people out there with another hard luck story, they will want me to pay them double time even to take a vacation." MARILYN BLOWS 'EM Cherry Point, N.C.. (UB Twice within the last month films featuring shapely Mari lyn Monroe have been inter rupted by transformer blow outs at the Marine Air Base here. The projectionist said these were the only times such blowouts have occurred. DANCER TO FISHERIES Astorian-Budget It is of course good news that Ice Harbor dam once again has been rejected definitely in congress. It has happened 'so often that we no longer get as concerned as we used to do when Ice Harbor measures are introduced. The supporters of Ice Harbor are persistent, and undoubted ly are counting on the proba bility that its opponents will relax their vigilance one of these years and let an item slip through to get it started. Eternal vigilance is going to be the price of safety from this never-dying threat to the Co lumbia river fisheries. DIM VIEW OF NEWBRY (Pendleton East Oregonian) When Earl Newbry announ ced last week that he would be a candidate in 1954 for the Oregon governorship he said he was seeking the state's high est office because he "sought to lower the traffic death and accident tolls." We had assumed it was his responsibility as sec retary of state to do that job, And how as governor he would better accomplish it we fail to see. It's a good campaign pitch, though. Almost as good as being in favor of motherhood and the U. S. Marines and being opposed to communism. NEUROTIC SQUIRRELS San Fernando, U.R The Pacific Telephone and Tele graph Co., may need a psy chiatrist to cope with 30,000 San Fernando valley squirrels which are chewing up tele phone cables. Officials said the squirrels chew away protective lead sheating on cables because they are "adolescent and neurotic." One of Canada's most ex clusive clubs is the Kainai Chieftainship restricted to 35 members, all honorary chiefs of the Blood Indians of South western Alberta. Washington When Ger man crowds faced Red people's police in East Berlin, threw rocks and logs into the tracks of tanks, burned the pictures of Stalin, one complaint they hurled at their Red masters was "Butter. East Germany long has been the food bowl of Germany. West Germany, with its heavy industrial population, depend ed on East Germany which overflowed with wheat, milk. butter. But under Red rule East Germany's food wealth . has been: 1, siphoned off into Rus sia; 2, trampled in the mud of discouragement by Soviet farm quotas. Last winter in Berlin I talked with refugee after refugee who had left family farms owned for cen turies all because commun 1st quotas were impossible to meet. So crowds in' the street, fighting Soviet tanks with bare hands, sticks and stones, taunted their Red rui ers with: "Butter!" Heaven-Sent Moment Two facts should be obvious from the above: A. Now is the time for the E i s e n hower administration, elected on the pledge to do something behind the iron curtain, to act. In speech after speech, both John Foster Dul les and the president himself decried the static policy of the Truman administration, said the cold war should be ended by stirring up peoples behind the iron curtain. B. The United States has on hand 246,561,000 pounds of butter acquired at the taxpay ers' expense, which probably cannot be dumped on our own market without ruining farm ers and which will not keep in definitely. Eventually butter gets rancid. A modest amount of this surplus sent to Berlin right now would give the Reds the heebie-jeebies. Berlin is a city in which it Is extremely difficult to prevent people from passing back and forth between east and west I have crossed back and forth into the Soviet zone a dozen times. Several thousand people cross back and forth daily on their way to work. If the Russians refused to ad mit into East Germany a gift of free butter from the U.S.A., it would be a simple matter for the giant U.S. radio station in Berlin, RIAS, to announce that East Berliners . could come across the line and get it. The same could be done with excess wheat, now stored away in decrepit ships in the Hudson river. A million loaves of bread require a relatively small amount of wheat. Yet a million loaves of bread in Berlin right now might take East Germany permanently out from under the Iron Curtain. DEAD WALL OF INACTION However when American re lief agency officials have ap proached Secretary of Agricul ture Benson on these problems they have got nowhere. Secre tary Benson is a most sincere and religious gentleman. Twice when an American relief agen cy chief has called on him re garding the disposal of our gi ant stores of surplus food, the Secretary of Agriculture has asked him to bow his head in prayer. But he has given no answer about releasing a small CONTINENTAL ASPECT I jj LLin fti r V . - ! THE LYON APPOINTMENT (Albany Democrat - Herald) The proposed appointment of Tom Lyon, Salt Lake geo logist, to be head of the U.S. Bureau of Mines appears to have been every bit as bad as bushy-browed John L. Lewis charged is .was. His with drawal under considerable pressure is very fortunate. Among several counts against him, any one would be enough to unfit him for the position. He is receiving he admits, a pension of $5,000 from the Anaconda Copper Co., whose political record In Montana is nothing to boast abo';. Then he is on record as opposed to the mine-safety law he would have had to administer. It would have been well for the interior de partment to find out about these things before the ap pointment was proposed to the President. Secretary Mc Kay obviously was badly briefed on the Salt Lake geologist when he proposed him for the job. This will just have to go into the record as a mistake one of "those things." For tunately it was rectified be fore any real damage had been done. Seen in this alley between Chemeketa and Court streets In the block bounded by Commercial and Front is this scene with a continental aspect. A stairway from an upper floor leads to the shady courtyard where a large cherry tree cast its shadow over iron sheeted doors and windows formed by a bygone architecture. Religious Page Liked By Silverton Writer To the Editor: I appreciate the back page of Saturday's Capital Journal, the religious page. I like the good verses of scripture, and in fact the en tire page. I wish to thank the merchants who make this page possible, and you. the editor. MRS. MAE CONRAD. Silverton, Ore. part of our surplus food. Last week, certain farmers wanted to donate wheat them' selves to help send a million loaves of bread to embarrass the Reds in Berlin. But Harold Stassen could not even be reached on the telephone to say whether his Mutual Security Administration would help pay the ocean freight. In the past, mutual security has helped out with the ocean freight when individual Amer icans contributed to relief abroad. But Stassen would not even take telephone calls, though repeated efforts were made to reach him. OTHER SIDE OF YALTA Meanwhile people behind the Iron Curtain are still smouldering, still hoping for some token of support. Free elections are supposed to be guaranteed them under the Yalta pact. So far, we have taken the raw end of Yalta, Now we have ah opportunity to push the other end in a way which will cause great em barrassment in Moscow, Great encouragement in Czechoslo vakia, Hungary, Poland, East Germany, Rumania. The above is written by one who two years ago went to the Czech border to help release freedom balloons to the Czech people. Those balloons, carry' ing mere messages of friend ship, stirred up the nation, caused a Czech freedom train to bolt across the borders, un questionably contributed to current ferment. If mere leaf lets scattered from balloons can do this, imagine what a million loaves of bread and a few tons of surplus butter could do in Berlin! Ex-Quaker Wilson Most interesting, also perhaps' the most important battle in volving any one cabniet mem ber, is that of General Motors Charles Erwin Wilson, who as secretary of defense has the rough, tough job of command ing and tangling with the armed forces. A good many civilian secre taries of war, navy and defense have tried to ride herd on the admirals and generals, but in variably have ended up either on their ear, or eating out of the brass hats' hands. Louey Johnson, for instance, bucked the armed forces and was fired. General Marshall and Bob Lov ett, who followed him, capitu lated. Wilson started by practicing what his Quaker grandmother used to say to him: "Erwin (she always called him by his mid dle name) thou hearest me but thou dost not heed." When he first took office, Gen. Omar Bradley, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, dropped in to tell Wilson that he would brief him on certain days of the week at a certain time. The new secretary of de fense promptly replied that he didn't need to be briefed, butJ would call Bradley in when ever needed. "You know, all those fellows want to do in their briefing," Wilson told a friend, "is to con dition you so that you will do something that is wrong." In this case, Wilson mis judged Omar Bradley, one of Salem 29 Years Ago y I EN MAXWELL . Jaly 1, 1124 Strict enforcement of regu. lations regarding use of city water for irrigation had to be the rule until the water short, age was over. In some sec tions of Salem homes were without water for drinking. Aerial postal service across the continent had been launch ed. In San Francisco M. N. DeYoung, publisher of the Chronicle, mailed a first letter to President Coolldge. a a a Howard Ramp's store at Brooks and aeveral nearer dwellings were reported afire. A strong afternoon breeze was fanning the blaze and the en. tire town was threatened. ', a a a Definite decision to mova LInfield college from McMlnn ville, where it has been estab lished for more than 60 yean had been made by the board of Trustees in a meeting at Bap. tist headquarters. (It was lat er cancelled.) , . a Salem playgrounds were opened with about 300 boyi and girls in attendance. a" a Dr. Carl Gregg Doney, who had resigned as president of Willamette university because i of ill health, agreed to take a year's leave of absence and then resume the presidency on a five-year contract. During1' his absence the university was to be administered bv rwi. George H. Aldei. and a com mittce of faculty members. a . a a Loganberries, rasnhorri.. and blackcaps had been HpHv. ered to. Salem canneries and showed that the intense heat of last Sunday did more dam age than was anticipated. www About 1,500 member. n Catholic churches in Portion Salem and Mt. Angel had at tended the denominational convention held at Shaw oa Sunday. a a Mrs. Hallie Parrlsh Hinm had appeared in vocal flllm. bers on the program of the Sa. lem picnic held in Portland. Attending from here wer Judge George H. Burnett. Judge P. H. D'Arcv. Teresa D'Arcy, Mrs. Ira Babcock and Abbie Farrar. Dense smoke from foreit fires had been responsible for grounding of the tanker Stock, ton at Point Wilson in Puget Sound.' the most sincere and idealistie men in the armed forces. How. ever, the new secretary has been trying to cut red tape on lot of things and may come out on top in the end. No sys tem whereby a paper has to be signed by 17 different people is any good, Wilson says, be cause you can t fix responsi bility on one person. While Wilson's defense bud get is the biggest in govern ment and therefore has the most fat, the problem is to pick the fat, not the lean, and some budget pruners are pretty good at getting the two mixed up. "However," says the new secretary of defense, "I think the change to the-Quaker-and- the-Indians approach may con fuse them." cCoprtiht. mil for diamonds of all sizes is the touniproiy mounting. As much In vogue now as it was fifty years ago, its continuing popularity is due to the fact that It centers all interest on the gem Itself - shows fine stones to best advantage. We recommend it for quality diamonds of all sizes. A. $300 B. $250 C$200 Prices include Federal tax D. $150 E. $100 Charge or budget Take yeer to poy. It costs no more. rff 390 Stete Dial 4-2223