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ROBERTA. TAFT
The death of Senator Robert A. Taft bursts upon the
country with startling suddenness, for only this week
was his condition admitted to be serious, and then it was
supposed he might be in for
Already he la dead.
That Bob Taft was a remarkable man is an understate
ment The son of a president of the United States and
born to wealth, he deliberately chose the tough, often
unrewarding career of a politician, learning his exacting
trade in the Ohio legislature
senate.
Taft was not blessed with a "political personality."
No one seeing him for the first time would pick him for
political success. He looked more like a successful lawyer
or business man than one
through the votes of the electorate.
That success was won by
literally "made a horse of himself," to master every in
tricate detail of legislation, so he could speak with author
ity. To this he added the utmost of courage and candor.
Taft might be wrong, but he
he had studied the question
It was upon this solid foundation that he built the tremen
dous prestige he enjoyed with both Republican and Demo
cratic senators. For several
the most influential member of the upper house.
Like so many great senate leaders before him, the
greatest prize, the presidency, which came so easily to
his father, eluded the son. He sought the Republican
nomination three times, almost made it in 1940 and again
in 1952, but was nosed out each time. In 1944 Taft stood
aside for Senator Bricker. He tried again in 1948, but
Tom Dewey's well oiled machine again dominated the con
vention. Taft made his last and greatest effort in 1952
and came within an eyelash of winning.
Although bitterly disappointed Taft was strictly in
character in rising above his hurt feelings, loyally sup
porting the Eisenhower ticket. Subsequently he became
Eisenhower's right hand man, his virtually indispensable
link with congress. How the administration will fare
with Taft gone remains to be seen, but his death will be
a heavy blow, for there is no one else with his capacity to
tompose differences both within the Republican party and
between senators of the two parties.
Despite Taf t's outstanding qualifications for the presi
dency, what a blessing to the country it is that he was not
nominated and elected, for had he been we 'Would now be
plunged into the confusion of a change of administration.
Eisenhower is only a year younger than Taft, so the
Republicans were forced last year to choose between two
men past 60, the first time in many years this has hap
pened in either party which was not renominating a presi
dent Presidents should when possible be found among
men under this age, as they usually have been heretofore.
The immediate political effect of Taft's death will be
the return of the senate to Democratic control, assuming
Ohio'i Democratic governor names a Democrat to the
acancy as there is every reason to expect. Mike Di
Salle, last year's Democratic nominee, is reported likely
to get the place, and he should make an excellent senator.
.
Oregon Senator Wayne Morse announced today that
while he will work to defeat the Republicans next year,
he will vote against Democratic organization of the sen
ate now, since the people elected a Republican adminis
tration last year. This is a consistent attitude, though
en a quick glance it may not seem so. Morse's decision
meant that the Republicans, though outnumbered now,
will continue to hold the committee majorities and chair
manships, the appearance of power without the votes on
the floor to back it up, unless they can attract more Demo
crats than they lose Republicana on the controversial
Issues.
, The Eisenhower administration will continue to get
, many of its measures through the senate despite the loss
. of Taft for a number of Democrats" are friendly, but no
traight party measure can hope to pass. Eisenhower's
troubles will surely increase.
Meanwhile, America bids a sad farewell to a great
son of a great father who has served his country well, and
helped to create a tradition of public service by our ablest
men who too often devote their lives to the larger imme
diate rewards of business and the professions.
VOTES, NOT VETOES, THE ISSUE
In view of the determination of many of the United
Nations members, as shown by the expressions of their
governments, to admit communist China to the global or
ganization could be blocked by the United States is ques
tionable. The only place a veto could be utilized is in the
security council, and it might not be able to utilize it there.
The security council has 11 members, 6 of them perma
nent: the United Sttaes, Britain, France, Russia and the
Chinese Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-Shek. The
other six seats rotate among the 65 nations of the UN.
The six seats are now occupied by Chile, Colombia, Den
mark, Greece, Lebanon and Pakistan.
Approval of any issue requires a vote of 7 of the 11
members. Two kinds of problems are handled by the
council, substantive and procedural, and it is up to the
council to decide when it is one or the other. In previous
decisions, when a membership was at stake, the council
held that it was substantntive. For that reason it was
able to keep them out without a veto. It has vetoed the
admission of Ceylon and Portugal three times, Finland
twice.
The reason is that any one of the five permanent mem
bers has a right to kill any substantive matter with a
veto, although all other 10 members approved it. But
when the council decides a matter is procedural and not
substantive the veto can't be used. Approval can be
given with any seven votes.
If the council chairman
is already a member, the question of which the Chinese
government should be seated is a nroreilural matter, and
his ruling was sustained by a majority of the council, a
veto is not effective on a chairman's ruling and the United
States could be outvoted on the admission of Red China
into the UN by the council and no veto eould be utilized.
Approval on a major issue like Red China would require
a two-thirds vote of UN 40 of ita 60 members. G. P.
Monuur. mil Ml Moauia, vi-iv. vmm
a long period of failing health
before he went on to the U.S,
who could achieve success
hard, painstaking work. He
was seldom in doubt after
and he was always sincere.
years he has been by far
derided thai. Waime China
WASHINGTON MERRY
Senators Promote Favorite
Messenger Boy to General
By DREW
Washington It went un
noticed in the small print of
the appropriations bill, but the
senate appropriations commit
tee has promoted its favorite
messenger boy to a major gen
eral. He is Ma). Gen. Robert
Moore, who hain't been pro
moted by the army since he
was a colonel. However, he's
now promoted by act of con
gress. Moore has endeared himself
to powerful senators by doing
special favors, such as arrang
ing trips abroad at the tax
payers' expense. In reward, the
senators promoted him to be a
brigadier general in 1950 by an
unusual device. They tacked a
rider on the appropriations bill
which declared teat the army
could not spend any of the
money In the 1950-51 supple
mentary appropriations bill un
til their fair-haired boy was
made a brigadier general.
The army had several fight
ing colonels In Korea who de
served to be promoted, but it
was forced to give first pri
ority to Moore.
This year Moore apparently
feels that his senatorial cater
ing service deserves even high
er rank, so his senator friends
have slipped another rider into
the appropriations bill forcing
the army to give Moore still
another star before it can spend
any money next year.
Army generals admit private
ly that they would like to get
rid of Moore, but they are
afraid of his powerful friends
in the senate. As long as he can
ingratiate himself with sena
tors. It looks as if his job is
secure. If his present promo
tion rate keeps up maybe he'll
be the nation's first five-star
messenger. '
In Congressional Cloakrooms
Best Job ot GOP leadership
has been in the house. Speak
er Joe Martin and Charley
Halleck of Indiana have held
tight grip over GOP-ers bet-
ter than the democrats did
over their house forces under
Truman . . . Republican lead
ership in the senate without
Taft has been shaky. Know
land of California is nice but
not overly skilled. Democratic
leaders are bitter toward
Knowland. "I wouldn't trust
him any further than I could
throw him," says Johnson of
Texas ... the democrats have
been quietly cooperating with
the republicans regarding Taft's
illness. When close party votes
come up, democrats have some
times had one of their number
stay off the senate floor so as
to give the republicans the
edge ... It was on August 3
just a year ago that this writ
er first exposed the discrimina
tion of navy brass hats against
Capt. Hyman George Rickover
because of his religion. Though
Rickover Is the navy' top ex
pert on the atomic submarine,
a promotion board twice pass
ed him over. Following this
writer's expose, the senate
armed services committee call
ed navy brass hats on the car
pet re Rickover, and this week,
one year later, Rickover was
officially made an admiral.
Ike Wants Adjournment
Reason why congress Is hell
bent for adjournment, even if
it kills some ot the older sen
ators. bolls down chiefly to
one thing Ike want to get
congress out ol his hair.
He is fed up with concress-
men, tired of soft-soaping and
cajoling, bored with eongre-ltaxes.
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem.
SOMEBODY BELCHED
- GO - ROUND
PEARSON
sional liaison meetings, wants
to get out to the cool of Colo
rado. Some GOP leaders shake
their heads ' ruefully, warn
that tough legislative problems
are not being settled, merely
postponed until next year when
things will be tougher. But Ike
wants to send congress home
just the same.
That's behind the night ses
sions, the frenzied compromis
ing, the jamming through ot
legislation so fast that most
congressmen don't know what's
in the bills.
Ike's Luck
"Ike is a lucky guy," opined
one GOP leader. "Stalin waited
for him to take office before
he died, leaving Russia in a
dither. Then he knocked off a
Korean truce. Now he's lucky
enough to have a democratic
opposition that doesn't know
the score.
"If the democrats were as
smart as we were in boxing
Harry Truman, they would
make us look like political
mincemeat. But Ike's lucky."
What he referred to is the
manner in which the republi
can national committee rolled
out the mimeographed speech
es for congressmen to deliver
on the floor by the bushel bas
ket. A battery ot thirty ghost
writers, stenographers and re
searchers kept GOP senators
ahd congressmen supplied with
ammunition every day of the
week. Today the democrats are
broke, well-intentioned and not
alert. No master strategy is be
ing cooked. The democratic na
tional committee even lacks a
contact man to work with con
gress, let alone speech writers.
Truman Got There First
The other day Columnist Bob
Allen dropped in to see demo
cratic Chairman Steve Mitchell.
"What do you think of Pre
sident Truman's speech sched
ule out in Detroit and Minne
apolis?" he inquired.
What?" asked the surprised
democratic chairman.
Yes, Harry s going to speak free-lance writer whose pen
Detroit on Labor dav and chant for headline - hunting
in
then Senator Humphrey has
got him to speak in Minneapo
lis on Sept. 12, later, that
week."
Mitchell hadn't even heard
about it. That was why Ad
lal Stevenson's big homecom-
ing meeting in Chicago sud-'01
denly was shifted from Sept.
11 to Sept. 14.
T1IE GOP SCORE
What worries republicans !
about the "postpone legisla-
tion" motto of the Ike adminis-1 bosses trot out radical candl
tration Is that the postponed dates and enough conservative
log-jam will gang up during! Democrat vote for Republican
the coming election year, candidates to generally elect
Here are some of the things! them, however. .
that are being postponed un- Neuberger uses his seat in the
til the next congress when It state senate to further his free
will be tough to handle them: lance writing. No doubt, he
1. Higher Postal Rates To could command still better rates
increase postal rates Just be- j it he could sign his stuff "gov
fore election brings wry moans i "nor of the state of Oregon."
to most GOP congressmen,! However, we suspect that lt
smiles to democrats. twill take more than Just a lippy
t. Increased Debt Limit : personality like Mr. Neuberger
This will bring a lot of em-jto bring bout the kind of two
barrasing debate in an election party system he desires so ard-
year.
3. Reciprocal Trade Was
I
re-1
newed for one year only. There j
win have to be another big
hassle next year.
4. Taxes Have Been Post
poned The Ike administra
tion brought in no new tax bill,
merely - continued Truman s
It'll be tougher to write!
Oregon
a new tax bill next year.
5. Hawaiian Statehood Also
postponed. Senator Taft con
fided privately to Hawaiian
delegate Joe Farrington that
he had to make a deal with
southern senators to sidetrack
Hawaii in return for southern
support on tidelands oil.
C. Tidelands Oil First and
perhaps biggest legislative vic
tory for Ike, helps him with
the south. But not many re
publicans vote in the south.
However, Ike's lucky.
(Ooprrlfht, 19MI
Oregon to Enforce Law
On Parental Obligation
1 ' Eugene Register-Guard
Old man Oregon is going to the great majority ot aged have
be just a little bit rough on, either provided for themselves
able sons and daughters who1, or are cared for by their kin.
relegate aged parents to the re- Of the 21,088 on the old age as
lief rolls, according to Miss Loa sistance rolls, 7000 have no
Howard, state welfare director, relatives, leaving approximate
With Max L. Dudley, the Lane I'ly 14,000 where the question
county administrator, she went! of filial liability may arise.
over the situation created by
the law adopted by the 1953
Legislature which tightens up
the responsibility provisions for
next of kin. The main prov
isions are:
Welfare is given access to the
gross earnings of the closest
blood kin (although it does not
tab brothers and sisters).
Although the gross earnings
figure does not include all the
details of an income tax report,
it gives a starting point for de
terminating ability to pay.
Where ability to pay la es
tablished, welfare will bill the
most affluent relative for the
care of the aged and he can set
tle with other members of "the
family,
In extreme cases, a judgment
can be directed against the un
willing relatives.
The picture of willful neglect
in .Oregon is not nearly so bad
as might be supposed, according
to Miss Howard. We have
173,021 persons over age 85 of
whom only 21,688 require old
age assistance, indicating that
DIM VIEW OF DICK
Grant Pas Courier
Dick Neuberger, the Portland
chatter is his greatest claim to
fame, presently is banging away
at the theme: "Oregon needs a
two-party system."
Even the recent flare-up
among state prison inmates was
(cnargeo. oy jeuoerger to iaca
two-party system.
Oregon has a two-party y-
!em to the extent mat Demo-
cratie registration exceed the
Republican.
The Neuberger type of party
cntly.
DOGS BITE CARRIERS
Salt Lake City U Post
master D. R. Trevi thick, after
22 mail carriers were bitten by
dogs in the last 12 months,
asked residents today to tether
any canine "who don't give a
darn for public servant.
Salem 34 Years Ago
By BIN MAXWELL
Jely 11, ill
President llson bad opposed
the United States receiving
any share of the Indemnity
paid by Germany.
A conference of high gov
ernment officials and cabinet
member bad met with Attor
ney General Palmer to discus
the food situation and rising
price.
After a month of prohibi
tion San Francisco bad found
that families were more con
genial, her male population
less given to fighting, her au
tomobile more carefully op
erated but with liquor (till
comparatively easy to get.
At midnight all government
controlled telegraph and tele
phone line had been returned
to private ownership.
Deed to right-of-way to the
Portland Southeastern rail
road bad been filed with the
county recorder. The road
had plans to run from Mt. An
gel to Stayton and then across
the Cascades to Bend.
-
Automobilist were warned
to keep away from Eola. Os
kar Huber Construction Co.
had a contract for paving from
the west approach of the Cen
ter street bridge toward Dal
las and the route had become
difficult for travel.
"Webfoot" airplane of Sa
lem Areo Co., had made the
flight to Eugene with Elmer
Cook a pilot and Fred Man
gis as passenger. The distance
of 80 miles had been covered
In 65 minute.
Oregon had requested offi
cials In Washington to supply
an air patrol to assist the for
est service in guarding against
fires in the timbered regions
of the state. ,
E. Clemens Horst Co., at In
dependence had advertised
that hop pickers would be paid
80c a box for hop picking with
tents, wood and straw furnish
ed free.
Over 30 returned soldiers,
sailors and marines in Cor
vallis had organized a branch
of the American Legion.
(In Lane county, Mr. Dudley
says, the number of persons
over 65 is 8487 of whom 1055
are on, the welfare roll and of
these about 300 have no rela
tives living; 700 case will have
liability examination.)
Miss Howard and Mr. Dudley
estimate that only about 10 per
cent of the able-to-pay really
shirk their obligations and it's
these persons that the new law
will clamp down on.
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
'Johnny Walker' Man Who
Saved the U.N. in Korea
By HAL
New York W The man
who saved Korea was "The Lit
bl Bulldog."
Hi was Lt. Gen. Walton M.
Walker, first of the 8th Army'
four commander in the 37
month Korean campaign.
And when the military his
tory of that frustrating opera
tion 1 written it must show
"Johnny" Walker as crucial
figure. One wrong guess by
him and the war would have
been over within the first two
month. We would have been
shoved o'ff the peninsula.
Most generals prefer to fight
cautiously. A few generals
like to gamble boldly in attack.
A truly fine general Is one
able to fight with equal gen
ius either on the offensive or
on the defensive
"Ule ou"1' J
squai. piumy, -m"" j " (
Texan who looked more like a
mall town businessmen than
an Army commander, proved
before bis death he could do
both superbly well.
"Johnny Walker won nis
fame as leader of the 20th
"ghost" corps, which spear
headed the 3rd Army in Eur
ope in the second World War.
Gen. Patton was so pleased
with his bold victories that he
personally pinned on him the
three-star insignia of a lieuten
ant general which Gen. Eisen
hower had given ration.
Gen. Walker liked to recall
that time in the early days in
Korea, in which he commanded
surely oh of the weakest arm
ies ever to take the field any
where. His task was to retreat as
slowly as possible while re
grouping the shattered South
Korean forces and building up
the American corps as fast as
troops could be ferried to the
front. He was unable to man
a continuous battleline. He was
short of everything men,
tanks, anti-tank weapons, ar
tillery. Walker saved the day by a
defensive that amounted to an
offensive. He shuttled regi
ments and battalions and com
panies around the front in a
contlnuooua razzle-dazzle,
throwing the enemy off balance
by magically showing strength
where they least expected it.
At one time bis force was so
completely committed that if'gon junior senator for energy
guerrillas behind the line had
attacked his own headquarters
he wouldn't have been able to
summon another platoon to de
fend it.
"You won't find that in the
books, will you?" he told a
correspondent later. "They
would say you were crazy to
fight a war without reserves.
But that's what we are doing
because we have to.
His famous "stand or die" or
der when he created the Nak
tong River defense line seemed
hopeless. But Walker rode
about the front line like a mad
man, itanding up in his arm
ored jeep and gripping a hand
rail as he gave orders.
The line bent, but never
broke. "The Little Bulldog"
had to strain his line to the ut
most by pulling out the 1st Ma-
msr
KEEKD I
Funtrol Service Sine 1878
bone 3-913 Church at ferrj
SAUM, OREGON
Friday, July SI, 1953
BOYLE
rin Division, wnicn waa to
land behind the enemy in the
Inchon invasion on Sept. IS.
Hi weakened army then took
lt heaviest blow and still
held.
The day after the Inchon
landing Walker immediately
switched to the offensive again
and predicted the war "should
quickly be over" unless the en
emy was re-inforced. Did he
foresee the entry of the Red
Chinese? Certainly be was well
aware of the possibility.
Walker smashed fiercely
through the North ' Korean
crust before him, and in the
kind ot pursuit he enjoyed rac
ed clear to the Yalu river be
fore ambushing Chines forced
him to draw back.
It is questionable whether
Walker thought the later "win.
the-war" offensive in Novem-
ber was wisely conceived but
he carried out his order. When
it was smashed, he pulled back
120 miles in an orderly re
treat. But death prevented him
from seeing his arrays' resurg
ence. Ironically, he died in a
traffic accident, as bad his idol.
Gen. Patton. He was killed
Dec. 23, 1950, when his jeep
crashed into a truck driven by
a South Korean soldier.
"The Little Bulldog" now
sleeps in Arlington Cemetery.
But his true monument is the
American 8th Army he welded
in Korea.
IRREPRESSIBLE MORSE
Astorian-Budget
Being exiled to the District of
Columbia committee isn't
enough to squelch Sen. Morse,
judging by a &ffMg he ha
sent from the Washington Post.
It contains a prominently dis
played account of the Oregon
senator' successful effort to
i prevent stripping the general
administrator of the city of
most of his power by (tripping
him of hi funds. v
Morse led a fight for passage
of the city budget bill in the
senate, contending that such an
appropriation bill should not be
used to settle a personality dis
pute within the city adminis
tration. Morse won out in an
oratorical battle on the senate
floor.
One has to hand it to the Ore-
and news-making ability. He
even finds opportunities in a
senate committee job that 1
considered next thing to being
in the ash can.
PRAISE FOR JUDGE FEE
(Oregon Voter)
Judge James Alger Fee is
eminently qualified for ap
pointment to the U. S. Circuit
Court ot Appeal. The opin
ions rendered by him have
been signally sound ever hi
experience of twenty year on
the U. S. District Court bench.
He has been assigned to many
cases outside his jurisdiction
because of the confidence felt
in his balance, firmness and
ability. His promotion to the
higher court would be wel
comed by leading member of
the bar.