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Tuesday, August 4, 1953
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BACK TO LIFE FROM LIVING DEATH
Exchange of allied prisoners is scheduled to begin Tues
day evening when the Communists promise to turn over
12,763 captives of which 8,313 are Americans. Seventy
Americans are due to walk to freedom in the first ex
change.
Not only have these POWs been confined In stockades
with less rations some since early in the Korean conflict
but most are unaware of world happenings occurring
during their imprisonment.
But they will soon learn that Joe Stalin is dead; Dwight
Eisenhower has moved into the White House ending a 20-
year Democratic reign.
They will learn that Joe Lewis has hung up his gloves
and Rocky R. Marciano is now the champ. And that a
charming princess has been crowned queen of England.
The allied command has released a kit which will be
handed to all U.N. captives as they are released at Pan.
muniom.
Inside the manila folder are three illustrated booklets
and a "welcome" letter from Gen. Mark Clark, U.N. Far
East commander.
One booklet tells the prisoners in capsule style what
the outside world was doing while the soldiers sat in
North Korean stockades.
The first entry date is June 25, 1950 the day the war
began. It closes with June 13, 1953, when Jimmy Carter
retained his world lightweight crown at Madison Square
Garden.
A second booklet, bearing the blue and white U.N. globe
and the words "Welcome Back " leads off with Clark's
letter, outlines the situation in Korea and the events lead
ing up to the signing of the armistice.
The third booklet opens with a letter from the Eighth
army commander, Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, welcoming
his returning men and then spells out, step by step, the
processing each repatriate will receive on the route home.
The booklet ends with bold black letters, "Bon Voyage."
Doubtless the returned prisoners will appreciate the
thoughtfulness of the U.N. command in furnishing them
information of world happenings during the period they
have been imprisoned.
But we would guess that reading of the booklets will
be delayed until they get that telephone call back to
their loved ones who have been worrying over their safety
over these many months.
IKE AS A 'NEW DEALER'
It takes all kinds of people to make a world and each
kind sooner or late gets in its two bits worth in a democ
racy such as ours, which makes it so interesting, if also
a bit confusing at times.
This thought is prompted by Utah Governor Lee's
charge, made at the governors' conference in Seattle, that
Eisenhower is a new dealer who's carrying on the Roosevelt-Truman
policies. People who "worked their hearts
out" for a change at Washington "now feel it's hopeless,"
the gloomy Utah head man observed.
Lee was one of three Republican governors out of 26
who did not support Eisenhower for the Republican nom
ination last year. One of these, Earl Warren of Califor
nia, was running himself, so only two could be called anti
Eisenhower. He is an extreme conservative and an ex
treme economizer in state government, who takes it out
of the hides of the schools as well as other government
agencies.
Eisenhower a new dealer? This will be quite a sour
laugh to the real new dealers, the labor chiefs, the public
power advocates, the "spend and spend" cult. Theso lock
upon him as a conservative, and certainly with more
reason than Gov. Lee has to envision him as a continu
ation of Roosevelt and Truman.
Whatever an exact definition of Eisenhower may be,
he is no extremist. To a reactionary he looks liberal; to
a radical he looks conservative. Actually he is a middle
of the roader, and awfully close to the common denomina
tor of the widely varying political thought of all of us.
This could have considerable to do with the enormous
vote he received last November and with the high popu
larity rating the public opinion surveys give him today.
despite the disappointments and frustrations of his first
six months In the White House.
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Chances Lie All Around, Like
Stepping Stones to Gold Mine
By HAL BOYLI
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Pearson Recalls Last Two
Meetings With Bob Taft
MORSE RUNS TRUE TO FORM
The first session of the 83rd congress ended as its
weelky sessions all during the session have ended, with a
long overtime harangue by Senator Wayne Morse of Ore
gon, elected as a republican. He deserted the party in
the '52 political campaign because he did not like the
candidate he had helped nominate in the convention and
viciously opposed for election. He proclaimed himself the
independent party in the senate.
Morse delayed senate adjournment, forcing the turning
back of clock for an hour and 39 minutes after official
adjournment time, delivering a harangue against the Eis
enhower power policy he had made many times. He had a
41-page prepared address, but due to the impatience of
the few senators listening to it, cut it short, putting big
sections into the Congressional Record without reading
them. The entire speech will probably be mailed to
Oregon constituents, as is customary.
Morse denounced Interior Secretary McKay as he has
many times as "Giveaway McKay" the "philanthropic Ore
gonian whose specialty is hydropower bargain bazaars
conducted for the absentee stockholders of the big power
companies." This was because McKay left the selection of
Snake river dams to the Federal Power commission, in
stead of trying to officiallyvforce the selection of Hells
Canyon dam as his predecessor had.
Morse is as much of an obstructionist and as fanatical
in his way of demagoguery as Senator Joe McCarthy
with his frequent groundless charges of espionage is
todav and as Vardaman. Bilbo and Huey Long were in
their way in the recent past and much more loquacious.
Since occupying his senate seat he has talked more than
most of the other senators lumped together with less
influence in the senate than any of them, a perpetual
seeker of publicity. G. P.
BEN PACKS 'KM IN
Haverstraw, N. Y. U.BAd
tnlrers flocked to the hen coop
on Frank Carella'l farm today
to get a glimpse of Black
Minorca with fabulous egg
nroducina Dower.
The hen has laid a double
Washington The last -two
occasions I saw Senator Taft
were memorable ones. One
was in his office where I had
called to check on a story re
garding a conversation he had
with President Eisenhower.
The other was at a luncheon
given for his wife, Martha
one of the first luncheons Mrs.
Tait was able to attend follow
ing her long illness.
The meeting in Taft s office
was ityplcal of his straight
f rom - the - shoulder frankness.
I had heard that, at one of the
Monday-morning conferences
which the president has with
legislative leaders, Taft had
made a crack about "Too
Many Generals" in govern
ment.
President Eisenhower, Taft,
Speaker Joe Martin and other
Capitol Hill quarterbacks were
discussing the appointment of
a new veterans administrator
and someone proposed Gen.
James Van Fleet, former com
mander in Korea.
'No," Taft was reported to
have said, "We've already got
too many generals in govern
ment . . ."
Suddenly he caught him
self, stopped, and looked
sheepish. The man to whom
he was talking, he remember
ed, was himself a general and
one who had defeated him for
the presidency.
That was the story, and I
went up to Senator Taft'a of
fice to make sure it was ac
curate. I told Taft that I had an am
using, though slightly embar
rassing story I had heard about
him and repeated it Some
senators would have ducked
or even denied. But not Taft.
He smiled and admitted I had
the facts straight. I asked if
Ike had smiled or taken it as
a Joke. Taft said no, that this
was what made it embarras
sing. Nobody had smiled.
However, he explained that
he had not meant it as a xt-
flection on President Eisen
hower. He Just felt it wasn't
a good idea to have too many
generals in civilian Jobs.
Reserved Right to Discharge
After that we got to talking
about how the Eisenhower ad
ministration was getting along
and the support he was giving
It. Taft felt some blunders had
been made, but pointed out
that when any new adminis
tration took office it was hard
to get shaken down. He felt
that, though the new presl
dent had tried to get good
men for his cabinet, they still
had a great deal to learn.
And he compared the El
senhower administration with
the conservative government
of Winston Churchill's, point'
ing out that when Churchill
first took over it lacked good
men, was unpopular and prob
ably could not have been
elected and had there been an
election. But new men were
being developed, and he
thought the conservative gov
ernment was gaining strength.
The Republican admlnistra-
yolk egg on every day but two ,D"' Preciciea. wouia ioi
I". i... 4,JL .v. n low the same course.
Taft went on, spesklng with
his usual frankness about his
By DREW PEARSON
far, but he was reserving his
definite right to disagree at
any time and on any issue.
He was extremely frank,
extremely lucid, a man who
knew exactly what he thought
and enjoyed expressing him
self, a man who seemed to en-
Joy his Job of leading admin
istration forces in the senate
almost more than the job he
missed out on at Chicago last
year.
Dreaded Leaving Wife-Partner
The other recent occasion on
which I saw Bob Taft was at
a luncheon given by ex-Em-bassador
and Mrs. Joseph E.
Davies. Martha Taft came in
a wheelchair and I was shock
ed to see how three years of
illness had taken their toll.
During those three years, she
had descended far down into
the valley, and I was told her
comeback had been nothing
short of a miracle.
This was her first luncheon
with outsiders and it was ob
vious that Bob was as proud
as a peacock. He personally
arranged her transfer from
he car into her wheelchair.
J pushed her into the room him
self and kept a watchful eye
to make sure Martha was all
right.
I thought back to a radio
debate I had with Bob Taft
Just a year or two after he
entered the senate, when Mar
tha, sitting backstage, was not
only his inspiration but gave
mm brilliant ammunition to
fire back at his opponents.
She had fought side by side
with him through every po
litical campaign, and I am
sure that one reason Martha
Taft struggled so hard to stage
a comeback was so she could
be by her husband's side dur
ing these climatic years of his
life.
I am sure also that what Bob
dreaded most when the doc
tors told him his time on earth
was up was the thought that
lor me Jasi live weeKs. vi
the two odd days, she laid
triple-yolk eggs.
"I'm not sure, but I think
that's some kind of a record,"
iCarella said.
support of Eisenhower. He
said he hsd backed the n e w
president on tno?t hsues
Plan Tax Study
By RAYMOND MOLET
The House Rules Committee
has approved and given the
green light to a resolution in
troduced by Congressman Car
roll Reece which provides for
a study of tax-exempt founda
tions and similar institutions.
This will, when passed by the
House, reconstitute and con
tinue the work of a committee
headed In the previous Con
gress by the late Eugene Cox
of Georgia. Due to limitations
of time and the failing health
of the chairman, the Cox com
mittee was able barely to
scratch the surface of a field
that needs deep and vigorous
ploughing.
The Cox committee was able.
however, to settle a number of
points which clearly establishes
the legitimacy of Congres
sional study of the nature and
activities of foundations. For
they are, in a very special way,
responsible to the public and
its government.
It was admitted over and
over by officials of foundations
in inquiries of the Cox investi
gation that since their income
is exempt from taxation it is,
in a large part, money vested
with a public interest. For
without tax exemption it would
share with all other private in
come in the support of govern
ment. The Congress as well as
the Treasury has a right to see
if it is being spent lor pur
poses which are not only free
of a subversive taint but use
ful and wholesome.
This principle of public re
sponsibility was well estab
lished 40 years ago when the
first of the Community Foun
datolns was established in
Cleveland. The trust instru
ment creating that foundation
specified that three of the five
members of the governing
board should be appointed by
public officials. W. H. Goff,
the truly great and far-sighted
man who conceived the idea of
a Community Trust and who
was himself once a member of
a Rockefeller Foundation, stat
ed that he could not agree with
the elder Rockefeller's idea of
a self-perpetuating board.
Indeed, Rockefeller, 40 years
ago when he was establishing
his partner of the years, whothe foundation that bears his
uau luuue nia Dames ner Dai-
ties, would no
his side.
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A SERIOUS LOSS
Astorian-Budget
There is no use trying to
minimize the fact that the
pending closure of the Prouty
sawmill in Warrenton is bad
news for the entire lower Co
lumbia area. This mill has
been one of the Institutions of
this region for close to a half
century and has provided a
substantial payroll one of
the really big ones of the dis
trict. News of the closure should
not be surprising, however. It
has been apparent for some
years that there no longer is
an available log supply in the
lower Columbia to support all
the sawmills in the region, par
ticularly one like the Prouty
mill which depended on logs
bought in the open market for
its supply.
New York (ffl What role
doe chance play in your life?
The chances are' that a quirk
of chance ... a street you
turned down long ago
book you read . . . the passing
advice of a friend or teacher
. . . a blind date ... a door you
knocked on and entered
helped lead you to where you
are today.
The odd links of chance or
haonenstance dont make
man, but they do direct the
path be treads. If he knowingly
takes a chance and succeeds, he
is likely to call it destiny. If
another fellow takes the same
chance and falls, he gloomily
calls it doom.
"Some fellows get all the
breaks." glumly says the un
successful man. "If I Just had
another chance, I'd
Tint there never is an end to
chance. Chances lie all around
every life, like stepping stones
to a hidden gold mine, unior
tunately. rarely do these chan
ces bear a sign saying, "This
way to your own Ft. Knox,
The truth Is that man can't
helo taking a chance. Every
step he takes leads from one
chance to another.
Chance several times saved
the life of Winston Churchill
as a young war correspondent
and soldier, in France auring
the first World War he was
called from a dugout five min
utes before it was blown to
bits.
Churchill took a long chanco
In the Dardanelles amphibious
campaign in that same war
and lost. All his long political
life Sir Winston has been will
ing to gamble on a chance,
and win or lose go blithely
on to the next chance. Acci
dents have been a major fac
tor in the careers of many busi
ness leaders. As a boy, Dave
Sarnoff kept his family going
by running a news-stand and
singing in a synagogue for $1.50
a week. -
One day he headed down
town to try to get a full-time
job In a newspaper. By mistake
he went into a communications
building Instead of a newspa-
per, but was offered a job as
office ooy ana too n.
The possibilities of wireless
fascinated him. Today Brig.
Gen. David Sarnoff, a pioneer
in radio and television, heads
the vast Radio Corp. of Ameri
ca. What it he had gone Into
the right building? Would he
be a reporter now? or would
he own the newspaper?
Sometimes what looks like a
bad break is actually the portal
to a better opportunity, it was
that way with Alfred C. Fuller.
Fuller, fresh off a Nova Sco
tian farm, came to Boston in
1803 to seek his fortune. He be
came a streetcar conductor, and
soon was promoted to $12 a
week. Weary of collecting fares.
however, he eased himself into
the motorman s seat one morn
ins: and steered an empty trol
ley from the car barn out to
the street and right off the
tracks. Five minutes later he
was off the payroll, too.
He began selling brushes
from door to door for a local
firm. In 1908 he started his
own business with $375. The
first year the company took In
only $8,500 a sum many of his
salesmen now net lor inenv
selves then went on to mil
lions. Fuller always regarded
his moment of bad luck as the
best break of his life.
The annals of industry and
politics are full of ruch stories.
Chance may step into your
life at any second, as you pur
sue the most routine tasks, to
offer you romance, new friends,
or a new career.
Hasn't it already happened
to you? If it hasn't It will. The
art of living is to recognize the
right chances when they come
your way. i
Salem 50 Years Ago
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August!, lttj "
Cardinal Joseph Sarto, pa.
triarch of Venice, had been
chosen pope and selected the
name, Plus X.
Gold In immensely paying
quantities had been reported
as discovered on Ogle creek
in Southern Clackamas coun
ty. Samples had assayed be
tween $200 and $3,000 a ton.
At New York Racket store,
E. T. Barnes, proprietor, $3 85
hammocks had been, reduced
to $2 80.
That modern Innovation of
a white casket, white hears,
and whitehorses bad come to
stay had been asserted in an
advertisement by W. T. Rig.
don.
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A new Masonic chapter or.
ganized at Woodburn had be.
come Woodburn Chapter No.
29.
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Speer Brothers had an offer
to pay 20c a duzen tor eggi,
10c a pound for hens, 17c a
pound for butter.
J. P. Rogers, wholesale and
retail liquor dealer, had an
advertisement Implying his
wines, liquors and cordials
were cheaper than a doctor and
better than medicine.
A shave could be had at
Evan's barber shop on Stat
street for 15c, a haircut, 25c
and two bits for a bath.
Fredrick's market In the
Cottle block on North Com.
mercial street had round steak,
three pounds for 25c, beef loin
steak for 10c a pound and
chunk steak five pounds or
quarter.
known public Investigation of
foundations, and, due to his ef
forts, many were dissolved be
cause of some relationship to
the conspiracy of Catiline. So
Congressman Reece will not be
entirely a pioneer. Nor will
he be unable to cite precedent.
Great good can come from a
penetrating and constructive
study of foundations by the
Reece committee when and if
established. It need not con
centrate upon the extant to
which some foundations have
supported subversive activities
although there have been def
inite instances of that sort.
Foundations properly managed
can do many things that are vi
tally Important such as the
magnificent contributions of
the Rockefeller Foundation to
health and Medicine. They are,
on the other hand, often
plagued by lazy and merely or
namental boards of control and
bureaucratic staffs. The risk
of wasteful and undesirable ac
tivities increases as they pene
trate into the so-called "social
sciences." There is need for
some wholesome correctiveness
in their work in that field eith
er by their own efforts or by
the strong push of a congres
sional committee.
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longer be at Congress incorporate it
Strangely enough there were
enough voices raised in Con
gress against such a recogni
tion that the offer was reject
ed. Radicals of that day re
garded the idea as an effort to
incorporate conservatism. At
that time either President Taft
or his Attorney-General I am
not sure which made a slight
ing remark about the motion of
"Incorporating Mr. Rockefel
ler." Times certainly have
changed.
High taxes and the convic
tion among people of substance
that great personal inheritances!
are not a particularly good
thing for children have enor
mously increased the number
of tax-exempt foundations. One
expert witness before the Cox
committee last year put the
number between thirty and
thirty-five thousand. He esti
mated the aggregate assets of
these at $7 billion which means
an annual income available for
spending at a billion or two.
However, the wide variety of
such foundations almost pre
cludes any specific estimates.
Students of history may be
interested to know that foun
dations are not new. ' They
NEW CREDENTIALS ASKED
Cairo W1 Egypt has asked
foreign envoys in Cairo to pre
sent new credentials addressed
to President Mohammed Na-
guib instead of to ex-King Faud ! seem to have started in ancient
II. The United States, however ' Egypt and Chaldea. In 65 B.
may not comply. iC Cicero initiated the first
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