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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Orcftni
Tuesday, juiy zi, 195
SELF RELIANT PIONEER WOMAN
RAISING THE DEBT LIMIT
Although no effort has been made by President Eisen
hower to raise the legal limit of the national debt which
Is now $ 275 billion, it looks as if such action will be nec
essary soon, unless the administration can find a way to
squirm out of it, by further slashing expenditures.
The national debt is now within $2.5 billion of the legal
limit due largely to the fact of previous commitments and
the decline in tax receipts to some $6 billion below the
Truman estimates.
Bankers fear the increase in the legal ceiling will cause
a renewal of inflationary pressure and a road block in the
announced purpose of stabilizing the purchasing power
of the dollar.
The legal limit was set by congress in June, 1946. Its
peak during World War II spending was $278 billion in
February of that year. And more money must be raised
beore the end of the fiscal year unless spending is cut.
Treasury receipts are trailing spending about $1.5 billion
at present.
Congress is cutting spending in future years but can
not do much in slowing down for the rest of the year, be
cause most government departments and agencies have
large sums from left over appropriations some $80 .billion
appropriated by previous congresses.
The president ordered a slowdown in spending until the
treasury can get back to a balance next spring during the
heavy tax receipts. But how much the saving could be,
Is a matter of speculation. Spending continues in spite
of economy drives.
Such economy efforts, as postal rate increases to stop
the heavy deficit of present rates, meet strong organized
opposition and are likely to hold congress in session for a
long time after the proposed deadline of August 1. The
bill will boost postal receipts by $240 million a year to help
wipe out annual $500 million deficits. It is the same
story all along the line. G. P.
ROYAL ROMANCE STIRS CONTROVERSY
With the exception of Queen Elizabeth the English royal
family seem to generate both headlines and headaches
with their love affairs. King Edward's romance with
Wallis Simpson is still vividly remembered, and now
Princess Margaret Rose, the queen's younger sister, is
reported involved with a divorced army captain 16 years
her senior.
This affair broke suddenly upon the British public a
few days ago and the people over there, with no pennant
races to get excited about, are eagerly choosing up sides.
Most of them are in favor of love taking its course. Of
course they don't know for sure that the princess is in
Jove, but this lsn t stopping the gossip.
The "hitch" is the same one that converted Edward
Into an ex-king. The Church of England is uncompro
mising in its stand against divorce and the royal family
are to put it baldly, the property of the British people
and government The church is an affiliate of the gov
ernment and speaks for it on religious matters.
Church opposition forced Edward's abdication and is
likely to prevent this marriage. Margaret cannot wed
without the consent of the queen and the queen won't
give that consent without the O.K. of the government
which in turn probably won't flout the church.
Meanwhile the dashing 88-year-old captain has been
given an assignment in Belgium where he won't see the
princess very often, probably with a view to breaking up
the match. It will be interesting to see if the popular
agitation moves those who have the final say, but a pood
guess is that it won't.
The church and the government both want to keep the
royal family free from criticism, and they are likely to
be as tough as boiled owl with their critics.
LIQUIDATION FOR THE R.F.C.
The present session of congress hasn't been noted for
legislative achievements, but it is evidently going to have
one important piece of legislation to its credit when it
adjourns, presumably in about 10 days.
The Senate voted Monday to terminate the Reconstruc
tion Finance Corporation and to set up in its place a
much more modest agency to make loans to small busi
ness, particluarly to enable them to handle government
contracts, to municipalities and to victims of disasters.
The House has already passed a similar bill, and the
two must now be reconciled by a conference committee.
There is no doubt about the wish of both houses of con
gress to wind up the big, sprawling R.F.C, which served
a useful purpose during the depression but which has
little justification now. Also, its administration has
been marked by favoritism and scandal.
Friends of government economy should not throw un
their hats till the president actually signs the R.F.C. re-
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jjrmci, uunevcr. rur iiuuiiiik is bo nara 10 Kin as a gov
ernment agency, and those interested in preserving this
one may be expected to resort to every delaying tactic to
prevent action prior to the approaching adjournment.
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Hermon Atkins MacNeil, distinguished American
sculptor best known for his Indian subjects, created this
pioneer woman for the Mar land competition. Theme of
this statue suggests a young widow, bereaved on the trail,
but still self reliant and determined to face alone, with
her child and her axe, the rigors of a pioneer life.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Reds Attacking Protestant
Churches Behind the Curtain
BY DREW PEARSON
Time Here for Use
Of Blackberry Spray
From July 20 to 25 will mark
1 the "two weeks after full
bloom" itage in mot thomless
evergreen blackberry plant
ings on the valley floor. This Is
the time for Interested growers
to apply the first growth rrgu
lator spray on parts of their
blackberry fields, reminds D.
L. Rasmusscn, county extrn
slon agent.
Experimental work with
growth regulators at the Ore
gon Agricultural Experiment
Station has remitted In Increas
es in fruit size varying between
31.8 and 24 per cent. However,
experimental data is not avail
able on all conditions under
which growth regulator sprays
might be used.
For this reason, the Experi
ment Station cannot make un
ouallfied recommendations
concerning the um ot growth
regulator chemicals at this
time. However growers having
irrigates field can try out the
material on part of the field.
The first spray is applied
two weeks after full bloom.
The second spray is applied 7
to 10 days later. Since both the
leaves and berries must be cov
ered by the spray, about 200
gallons of spray per acre per
application is necessary for
good coverage.
INDIAN'S DOWNFALL
Portland, Ore. (OB A bot
tle of cologne was the down
fall of Jerry Tisi, a 24-year-old
Indian caught In an at
tempted burglary.
Patience Baxter returned to
her home early yesterday and
found Tisi asleep In her bed.
Several Items from her apart
ment were In his pockets and
an empty cologne bottle was
at his side.
Police said TIsl had
swaet breath."
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Washington While McCar-
thyites have been attacking
Protestant churches in the U.
S. for being pro-communist,' the
communists have been attack
ing Protestant churches behind
the Iron curtain for being anti
communist. This anti-Protestant
drive is headed by none oth
er than the father of Klaus
Fuchs, the atom spy jailed in
England.
Communist leaders are bran
ding the Protestant clergy be
hind the iron curtain as "an
outpost of Anglo-American
warmongers." And they may
have taken a cue from the
House Un-American Activities
Committee which Is using an
expelled Presbyterian minister,
Dr. Carl Mclntire, to make it
look as if the clergy, itself, ap
proves of the attacks on church
men. For just as Mclntire is
now gathering petitions sup
porting an investigation on
"Communists" in the Protestant
churches, so the Reds have
found a group of so-called
Progressive Clergymen" to
mask an attack on thaTrotes
tant churches.
Professor Emll Fuchs, father
of the atom spy. gathered these
dissidents together at Chemnitz
(renamed Karl Marx City) in
East Germany for a conference
where he charged German
church leaders with "undcrmln
ing the confidence ot the ma
jority of the church members
by Ignoring one of the most im
portant revolutions In the his
tory of mankind."
He referred, of course, to the
Russian revolution.
The conference dutifully
went on record against the
misuse of the church as an
outpost of Anglo - American
warmongers."
Backing up the propaganda
drive with teeth, the Reds
threw Protestant Deacon Her
bert Bohnke of Haidemuehl,
East Germany, into a concen
tration camp for eight years
for owning "agitatlve publica
Hons" and for allegedly exclud
ing a communist young pioneer
from religious lessons because
of the boy s poor performance.
Note though no ministers
have been jailed in this country
because of their teachings,
hop G. Bromley Oxman of the
Methodist church has been
pilloried In congress on evi
dence just as false and distort
ed as the Communists usea
apMnst the unfortunate Prot
estant deacon.
Platn fact Is that both the
McCartylsts and the Commun
lsts are attacking the clergy,
not because they are disloyal,
but because they dare to preach
against totalitarian tactics both
here and behind the Iron cur
tain.
TAFT OBETS DOCTORS
The ailing but strong-willed
Senator Taft has been fussing
at his doctors over certain
treatments he has been forced
to take.
He finally submitted to one
particularly trying treatment
the otter day, and the male
nurse, pleased with the results.
remarked: "That was a beaut!"
The next day the nurse
came to administer the same
treatment over again. Taft re
sisted. The nurse called In the
doctors, who insisted.
"But I already want
a
sena-
through that yesterday, and
Art (the. nurse) said it was
beaut," protested the
tor.
However, the doctors refused
to be talked out ot it, and the
grumbling Taft reluctantly
submitted. '
His senatorial assistant, Jack
Martin, ribbed him afterward
about taking orders from the
doctors.
"They presented some rea
sonable arguments, explained
Taft who, in senate debate, is
always ready to change his
views in the face of sound
logic.
Note: Taft had the army
doctors in Washington's Walter
Reed hospital so buffaloed that
they were afraid to order him
to cut down on his senate ac
tivities. That's the reason he
was finally persuaded to go
to a civilian hospital in New
York City where the doctors
weren't afraid to talk hack
to him.
WHITE HOtSE .
BREAKFAST
At a White House breakfast
with members of the House
A p pro p rlations Committee,
President Eisenhower warned
that it would be extremely
foolhardy to let down our
guard for an Instant In our
military aid to Europe or our
propaganda activities behind
the Iron Curtain.
The president did most of
the talking during the hour
and a half meeting. He made
a strong plea that congress ap
prove his request for $5,130.-
000,000 In mutual aid funds
and pointed out that if con
gress did make a substantial
cut, It would shake the morale
of nations like France and
Italy at a most crucial time.
Chief economizer, said he
agreed with Eisenhower in
principle, but wondered how
long the American Taxpayers
could continue such a heavy
outlay of European aid with
out suffering an economic depression.
Taber and others pointed out
that the five billion mutual as
sistance budget for stopping
communism abroad was the
biggest single obstacle against
efforts to balance the budget
at home. Democratic Repre
sentative Otto Passman ot
Louisiana backed up Taber by
citing figures indicating the
national debt of the United
States was $50,000,000,000
more than all the other nations
of the world combined.
Eisenhower replied that he
was well aware of this but the
U. S. is still the most prosper
ous nation In the world and
that now was not the time to
reduce aid to free Europe
when we had communism on
the run and the Kremlin
bosses fighting among them
selves.
Note The president's per
suasiveness saved $400,000,000.
The congressmen had gone to
the breakfast determined to
chop $1,500,000,000 off the
foreign aid budget After lis
tening to Ike's plea, they re
lented $400,000,000 worth.
OPEN FORUM
Endorses Okla. Pioneer
Statue for Memorial
To the Editor:
I have received from the
State Library a copy of Sheba
Hargraves' "Cabin at the
Trail's End," which I wished
to reread after many years.
When I opened the front-
piece I saw a beautiful, noble
reproduction of a pioneer
mother and son, a "prize win
ning statue" according to 1
paragraph orf the next page,
by Bryant Baker, which was
erected at Ponca City, Okla.,
in 1928.
It is glad and buoyant, so
free and forward looking, so
unselfconsciously compelling
entirely winning. Could not a
replica of this serve as a ful
fillment of the bequest of Car
roll Moo res? There is no
doubt in my mind of its fit
ness.
MAUD2 M. MOCHEL,
731 Hayes, Woedburn
Editor's Note The foregoing
letter was written before the
Capital Journal published a
picture of this statue and an
editorial about it Saturday,
July 18.
Salem 76 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
July 21, 1937
Governor Martin had ap
pointed Judge Hall S. Lusk
as supreme court justice to suc
ceed Justice U. Cambell who
had died Friday.
Allen Fruit company had
made arrangements for barrel
ing apricots in brine for the
glace fruit trade.
Stat board of geology and
mineral resources had given
200 miners $50 grubstake loans
the first made under the new
law.
Mayor Wilbur H. Moffett of
Silverton had proposed com
plete elimination of the city
library as an economy measure.
Gold ingots to the number
of 80 and weighing 90 pounds
each had been discovered In
tunnels along the Piedra Con-
dela river in Panama. The
cache of treasure had been
valued at $3,000,000 and was
believed to have come from a
fabulous mine exploited in
Spanish colonial times.
A federal flax subsidy ot
$7.50 a ton had been assured
Oregon growers and hopes
were high for $10 for next
year.
Pontiac ears, "the most beau
tiful thing on wheels," were
available delivered in Salem
at a price as low as $898.
ONLT ONE MAUDE ADAMS
Albany Democrat-Herald
Maude Adams had been out
of the theater for so many
years that when the final cur
tain rang down on her long
life the other day she had be
come just a name to followers
of the drama to all, that is,
but the old-timers. These will
never forget her trim little
girlish figure as she portrayed
the spirit of eternal youth in
Peter Pan." She was vibrant
and vital in every part she
played.
Her early retirement, owing
to 111 health, was a great dis
appointment to theater-goers,
to myriads of whom she was
the "Miss Theater" of her day.
HIS OWN POISON
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Biggest Problem Is Rapid
Increase in Population
By HAL BOYLE
New York WV-The biggest (food and space, and there Is
problem In the world today is
people, and the biggest prob
lem about people is that there
are more of them in the world
every year.
In the middle years of the
most enlightened century in
history, a century in which
science has saved, and war
destroyed, more lives than in
any three previous centuries,
the human race is still increas
ing at the rate of 30 millions
a year.
This 1 on the basis of a
United Nations estimate that
roughly 80,000 more new
mouths open for food each day
than death closes.
From a global point of view
mankind Is In a race between
the brain, the belly, and the
reproductive process. The
task is for the human mind
to increase the world food
supply enough to fill all the
crying new empty stomachs
that result from the oldest
known mathematical formula
"Boy meets girl: result,
children."
Here Is America, however,
t have a special situation.
The motor ear has been out
breeding people.
The human popuatlon in the
United States, according to
one recent estimate, is grow
ing at the rate of 2 million or
more a year, with some 300
potential voters being born
every 13 seconds.
But this is a wide open
country still, with plenty of
more than enough room yet
for millions of Americans still
unborn.
The same isn't true of the
motor car. In recent years
the automobile here has been
outbreeding people two to
one. But the threat of a slow
ing down in Its birth rate is
upon us.
Nearly 8,500,000 cars el
ready have been delivered so
far this year although not all
to customers, and the head of
General Motors is quoted as
being hopeful the market will
absorb 8,300,000 by the end
of 1953.
But the automobile Indus
try is running Into a real over
population problem. A newly
married couple today can still
find a place to park a new
baby, and know that- there
will be room for it to play as
it grows older. But the same
couple no longer is sure, if
they get a new automobile,
where they can park It, or even
where they can drive It, on
many days, without ending up
in a traffic jam.
a renow buys a new car
and then goes to his psychia
trist and says, "Doc, help me
find a garage, and I think I'll
be able to face life again."
Our civilization is nearlng
the point where, the roads
being so jammed and parking
places so few, the only thing
left for a motorist to do la
jack his car up and drop by
every other Saturday and pol
ish it for fun.
If he moves it, he may not
find another place to park it
again until a neighbor dies
and the widow auctions off hit
garage space. Even then ht
may have to buy his lsttf
neighbor's car to get it.
The birth rates of motor
cars and babies are closely
tied together In America, as a
family that wants one usually
wants the other.
So if we want more Ameri
cans, we have to do something
to keep the auto industry hap
pily spawning.
But what?
My theory is that we will
have to change our habits. To
day we all go to work at ths
same time, take the same days
off, shop in the same hours,
vacation in the same months,
try to go to the same beaches
on the same week-ends.
This would be all right If
we walked. But we ride,
And the roads can't take ths
traffic any more, and it is
doubtful whether we eta
buiid roadt that will.
The simplest thing is for
people to stagger their work
ing hours, stagger their days
off, stagger their shopping and
vacation periods, stagger their
trips to the beach, even though
some must swim by moon
light.
We don't erowd each other
In wide America yet, but we
are crowding our vehicles to
death, and we are In the ve
hicles. If something Isn't
done about it, people may de
cide that both motor cars snd
babies are just too much
trouble, and stay home and
watch television.
Do we want that kind of a
future.
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