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REPUBLICAN SENATE
Senator Taft'g death converted the Senate Republicans
from a majority into a minority, as he will be succeeded
by a Democrat This might be expected to unite them,
but it seems more likely to
Taft, generally looked upon as a conservative near-isolationist,
was on good terms with virtually all members
of both parties. He had a capacity for getting opposing
factions to work together which it is generally conceded
no other senator possesses.
Republicans elected Taft'a choice as temporary leader,
Enowland of California, without a contest, but this does
not mean that Knowland enjoys unanimous support. Far
from it. Six influential senators were noticeably absent
when he was named, after failing to get the election of a
leader postponed. They are not considered reconciled to
the choice.
Republican factions follow
logical lines. Mid-westerners are conservative some say
reactionary isolationist for the most part, and none too
friendly to the Eisenhower administration. This group
extends clear out into the inter-mountain west, including
both Idaho senators, at least one from Utah and the one
from Nevada. They are a formidable group in numbers
end in determination to prevail
The other group is principally east and west coast, New
England, New York, mid-Atlantic, Oregon and California.
Knowland was presented in nomination by Cordon of
Oregon. This group loyally supports the administration.
Most, though not all of them were for Eisenhower "before
Chicago." Knowland himself was for Earl Warren, who
shares many of this group's views.
The Republican conservatives can't change the occu
pant of the White House till 1957 at least but they can
make life miserable for Eisenhower, and many think they
are planning to do just that, for many of his ideas on
both foreign and domsetic policy are bitterly resented by
the group.
Here the southern Democrats will play a major role.
They can play a Democratic party line game, wreck the
Eisenhower administration and' get a left wing northern
Democrat for president in 1957, or they can follow their
natural inclination and support the bulk of Eisenhower's
program, especially on foreign policy and economy, with
votes enough to carry the measures even if the anti
administration Republicans carry out their natural in
clinations. , 1 -
'
If this happens we will see government by a bi-partisan
coalition, just as we saw such a coalition reduce President
Truman'a power to virtually nothing while his party held
nominal control of both houses of congress.
What'll we see in 19567 Probably a real knock down
and drag out convention fight between the right and left
wings of each party, then an unprecedented amount of
plit ticket voting in the fall, and finally another bi-party
coalition of rightists and leftists, one to govern, the
Other to oppose.
The day of party unity in this country seems to be
ever, for a long time to come. But government must go
on, and will, through coalitions of like-minded members
of both houses of congress.
TRUTH WILL OUT DESPITE CENSORS
The bonehead censorship imposed by the army on
press interviews with released American prisoners in
Korea seems as much of a failure as that they attempted
to impose last April on the exchange of sick and wounded
"brain-washed" POWs rushed to Valley Forge in Opera
tion "Little Switch." Sooner or later the truth comes out
to dissipate the wildcat rumors created by suppression
of facts.
The press associations reports from Freedom Village
that Interviews with the returning prisoners were con
ducted with frequent interruptions from censors, and the
returned veterans have been instructed on what mihiprt
they could discuss, presumably a policy of appeasement
to avoid antagonizing the communists.
The futility of the attempted censorshin is elreadv
apparent, for the released American and South Koreans
are telling of beatings, burnings, death marches and star
vation at the hands of their Red captors horrors which
Killed countless fellow prisoners.
That the censorship has already been abandoned is in
dicated Dy tne interviews
Thomas D. Harrison, 82-year-old fighter-bdmbcr pilot,
and highest ranking American officer yet returned, in
two-day prisoner exchange, who arrived on crutches, with
one leg missing. Perhaps because he is a West Pointer
and a cousin of Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison, who nego
tiated tne truce lor the U.N. command, he was permitted
to tell his story of 12 days starvation and the infamous
"water torture" at the hands of North Koreans trying to
pry air force secrets from him.
Freedom Valley accounts of sadistic torture were grimly
accented by the sight of pitiful, broken wrecks of men
who made up part of today's 392 returnees. Some could
hardly walk. Others were terribly emaciated. One, a
South Korean, was delivered dead.
Some of the returning Americans were in excellent
condition. But in general, they were worse than the
British, though not in as desperate shape as the South
Koreans. Airmen seemed a special target of Red brutal
ity, in reprisal for allied bombing and straffing.
The returning prisoners presented grim evidence that
gome of the thousands of missing Americans never will re
turn. The worst horrors were in the early days of the
war. Conditions improved somewhat in some cases after
the Chinese Reds took over and improved further during
the truce negotiations. G. F,
Pope Pius Refers to
Martyred Saint
Vstlcin City (JPh Pope Piui
XII says the calamity of the
Catholic church In Communist
ruled Poland parallels that of
POO years ago when the na
tion's patron saint was mar
tyred. The Pontiff made the com
parison in a letter addressed to
Poland's Catholi Hierarchy
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mtmtx. to lb m tt Wieitoj f
Umj-vIm milt to ifato ir
FACTIONS
have the opposite effect.
both geographical and ideo
given the press by Lt. Co .
upon the ocacsion of the sev
enth centenary of the canon
ization of Stanislaus of Cracow.
Ml'ST BE MISTAKE
Memphis, Tenn. UJ Mrs,
Sadie Ciaramitaro denied at s
beer license hearing yesterday
that her son was a bootleiter
in 1934.
My son, Joe, was nine years
old in 1934." she said.
Red-faced police confessed
their records "must be tn er
ror."
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WASHINGTON MERRY
Iron Curtain
Food Riots in
By DREW
Washington Much more
than the American people
realize, the prisoner world be
hind the Iron Curtain is watch
ing the food riots In East Ger
many. Also, more than the
American people realize, the
Eisenhower administration has
been holding backstage debates
regarding the next step to be
taken in East Germany.
So far there's been no de
cision.
Two facts, however, are fair
ly clear:
Mo. 1 The East German
food program is only a drop
In the bucket compared with
what needs to be done in all
the vast and restless area be
hind the Iron Curtain.
No. 2 The Eisenhower ad
ministration was elected on a
platform of stirring up revolt
behind the Iron Curtain. So
vigorously did Eisenhower and
John Foster Dulles emphasize
this during the political cam
paign that Adlal Stevenson
publicly chided them.'
Once In office, however, the
Eisenhower administration has
been bothered by doubting
Thomases, do-nothing advisers,
has moved with exasperating
caution.
FIRST FOOD PROPOSAL
The present food program
for East Germany was pro
posed by this writer to cer
tain state department officials
on June 23, shortly after the
Berlin riots started. Some of
ficials were enthusiastic, some
dubious.
"If the Russians won't let
our surplus bread and butter
enter East Germany," It was
proposed in one column, "then
the American radio station in
Berlin, RIAS, can put them on
the spot by blaring the fact
behind the Iron Curtain.
"All we have to do is put
the bread and butter down in
West Berlin and let the East
Germans come and get it. Sev
eral thousand cross back and
forth every day. I have crossed
back and forth dozens of
times . . ."
This has now worked out
exactly as predicted. Though
tt took three weeks of back
stage debate, press and radio
comment, this idea has now
given the Kremlin Its worst
setback since the end of the
war. As stated In a column of
June 30. "If our millions of
tons of surplus food were used
appropriately In Berlin, the
effect on the Russians would
be devastating ... If the Rus
sians refused they would be
more on the spot than ever
The Russians did refuse
Eisenhower's offer of July 10
and they are now on the spot
in a manner which has lost
them more prestige than any
oiner single move we have
made.
OVR NEXT MOVES
Desperate, the Russians are
now blocking food distribu
tion. And the question is, what
is our next move to be?
Here are a few suggestions:
1. Drop food by balloon In
the rest of East Germany'. If
Red tanka and troops continue
to block the East Germans,
give them a spectacular dem
onstration of Yankee ingenu
ity by dropping food parcels at
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. Sakm, Ortfoa
SHAKY STRUCTURE
- GO - ROUND
People Watch
East Germany
PEARSON
their front door. The god
given winds of upper altitudes
which move from west to east
are with us in regard to this
and this is something the
Kremlin can't change. We
should use them
The Junior Chamber of
Commerce executive commit
tee, meeting last week at Tulsa,
Okla., offered to take over this
friendship balloon food lift ifj
the state department had noj
objections.
2. Repeat the food program
In other areas behind the Iron
Curtain. Vienna, like Berlin,
Is divided into sectors, so that
people can cross over from one
to another. A similar program
In Vienna would have the
same electrifying results in
southern Europe that the Ber
lin program is having In
northern Europe.
3. Send food by balloon to
other Iron Curtain countries
which are not near Berlin and
Vienna. Food by balloon is a
little more expensive, but in
tensely dramatic and drama
Is needed to win the cold war.
Furthermore, Poland, Czech
oslovakia and other satellite
countries were invaded by
Germany, don't particularly
love the Germans, and don't
like to see us favoring the
German people. For us to con
centrate on helping Germany
alone would be a serious psy
chological error.
4. Demand that free elec
tions be held in every Iron
Curtain country. In a formal
note to Moscow we should em
phasize the fact that the Yalta
Pact gives these nations the
right of governments of their
own choosing and we should
demand that the United Na
tions supervise free elections.
Yalta has been used against
us in many respects. We should
not be so slow about using it
to our advantage.
This is one of our biggest
aces-in-the-holc. and so far we
have completely missed the
boat.
5. Move for a United States
of Europe. Most Europeans
know they are doomed both
economically and militarily if
they remain smBll. divided, in
dependent countries. The only
way they can exist is to emu
late our example and unite.
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY
The death of Stalin, the
purge of Beria. the restless
ness behind the Iron Curtain
constitute an opportunity
which comes only once In a
lifetime. We can't wait a year
or a month or even a few
weeks.
Speaking tn Buffalo Aug.
27, Just about a year ago, John
Foster D.illes promised that
Eisenhower, if elected, would
encourage "quiet revolutions
in Red-dominated countries
through such methods as pas
sive resistance, slowdowns, in
dustrial sabotage."
And Eisenhower himself,
speaking in Denver, Aug. 13.
said: "The United States must
try to obtain by peaceful
means the restoration to the
captive nations of Europe the
right freely and honestly to
determine their own fate and
their own form of govern
ment." Again speaking before the
Amrrican Legion Aug. 26. Ike
said: "The American consci
ence can never know peace
. . . until the countries cap
tured by the communists are
restored again to being masters
of their own fate.
These pledges will not wait
Not only in the affairs of
men, but in the affairs of
nations, opportunity strikes
but' once. If this opportunity
is lost it may not strike again.
(COPTTllht, ISM)
Salem 25 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
August i. 1921
City council had issued a
call for bids on construction of
North High street culvert and
a bridge - spanning Pringle
creek gulch on Liberty street.
Marion county had been re
quested to replace the 300-foot
covered bridge over the San-
tiam at Mill City with a mod
ern structure.
Fifty-five members of the
Salem YMCA climb party had
reached the summit of Mt.
Hood.
Postmaster J. H. Farrar had
received word that a substa
tion of the postoffice would be
established in the Hollywood
district beginning September 1.
Oregon public service com
mission had a copy of Oregon
Electrlct Railway company's
petition asking permission to
abandon the branch line be
tween Woodburn and West
Woodburn.
Cross Market had announced
its intention to occupy its ew
location at 26S North Liberty
street on August 10.
Efforts were being made to
hasten construction of the
! Wallace bridge road connec
tion with the Tillamook high
way. Riverside park, new picnic
and swimming resort on the
Willamette south of Salem had
been opened by George J.
Veall.
"Butch," Salem fire depart-
ment's 16-year-old mascot, has
disappeared.
Fire of undetermined origin
had extensively damaged the
Theo. M. Barr plumbing and
tinning shop on South Liberty
street.
Less D. C. Drinking
Corvallis Gazette-Times
Since the new Republican
team took over last January,
coffee and liquor consumption
has dropped in Washington,
DC.
Government Services, Inc.,
which operates most Federal
cafeterias, reports coffee con
sumption has dropped from
44.000 pounds a month to 34,
000 pounds a month since
January.
Howard Lewis in his "U.S.
and US" column in the Wash
ington Times-Herald reported
". . . those who know report
cocktailing and free - loading
sessions attended by govern
ment officials off at least 80
per cent from normal.
This should be some small
proof that the taxpayer is get
ting more work for his money
out of the federal workers and
that the hither officials sre
paying more attention to busi-
ness than they are to partying
Both improvements are for the
public benefit.
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Trying to Please Wife Gets
Fame, Fortune for Chemist
ly HAL
New York WV-All most hus
bands feel they get for trying
to nlease their wives is exer
else and maybe a kind word.
But the reward of Paul
Charlao. a 28-year-old chenv
1st, was fame and financial
success. It was by trying to
please his wife that Charlap
developed nylast, -chemical
subsistence that increases the
snaa-resistanca of nylon stock'
ings and adds to their wearing
oualitv.
The Charlap success saga Is
the kind of young-love-con
quers-all story that Hollywood
would reject as too true to me
to make a good movie.
Back in 1949, while caring
for their infant son, "Cookie"
Charlap snagged her stockings
and complained to Paul:
"If you know so much about
chemistry, why can t you do
something to make my hosiery
last longer?"
"Being as it's your wife, you
don't ordinsrily psy any atten
tlon to a remark like that,
Paul recalled. "But that night
she showed me that she was
spending $4 to S3 a week for
hosiery - and that kind of
woke me up."
Paul checked with the Du
Pont Co. chemists and found
they had a substance which
helped protect nylon from
snagging during the manufac
turing process.
"Why couldn't a housewife
use it?" he asked. He was told
it was Impractical too high a
temperature was required, and
the substance washed away in
soap and water.
But Charlap wasn'lsatisfied
He took some of the substance
home, set up a laboratory in
his basement. After 18 months
in which he devoted every
spare hour to the problem,
Paul came up from the base
ment one day and said conn
den'tly:
"I've got it!"
.. He had developed a chemical
solution that put a protective
coating on stockings. But first
the stockings had to be washed
and then throuoghly rinsed
twice. Cookie found that was
so much trouble that after a
few weeks she quit using it,
"You're just too lazy," Paul
accused her.
"Nope, too busy," she said.
"A woman with two children
doesn't have that much time to
spend on her stockings every
night. Why don't you combine
the chemical solution with
soap? Then I could wash my
siocmngs ana pur me proiec
tlve coating on them at the
same time."
Great ides, wonderfully slm
pie.
Who would have thought of
it but a busy housewife?
"The only trouble was that
the basic ingredient and soap
were antagonistic like oil and
water," said Paul. But he set
out again to please his wife,
"If you really want this
stuff," he told Cookie, "you're
going to have to do most of the
work. I have to earn you a liv
ing."
So he and Cookie tested more
than 200 soaps, detergents and
Preventable
Drownings
Grants Pass Courier
About two thirds of the TOO
sccldental drownings of pre
school children each year in
the United States occur among
youngsters who are presuma
bly safe at or near their home,
statisticians of the Metropoli
tan Life Insurance company
report. One-year-olds account
for almost 300 of all the drown
ings, a greater number than at
any other single year of life.
Only a small proportion
about five per cent of the fa
talities among children at ages
one to four were reported to
have happened while the chil
dren were playing either in or
near the water at public or
private pools, beaches, or
parks. Drownings in ' these
places were fewer than those
caused by children falling off
landing docks, piers, and simi
lar structures, the statisticisns
note from a study of the ex
perience smong their young in
dustrial policyholders for the
period 1946 to 1951.
More than three-tilths of the
drownings occurred in rivers,
brooks, ponds and similar
bodies of water, many of which
were on or near the home
grounds of the victim, and an
additional one-sixth took place
in fish ponds, cess-pools, sep
tic tanks, wells, cisterns, and
water troughs. Several chil
dren in the insurance experi
ence were drowned In bath
tubs while parents left the
youngsters unattended for a
short time.
"Most drownings among pre
school children could be avoid
ed if parents watched their
children more carefully," the
statisticians point out "Even
st public or private bathlag
places where a life-guard Is
present, children should be ad
vised to stay within range of
his supervision and to heed
his warnings."
BOYLE
other cleaning agents in their
basement laboratory be tore
finding one that might work.
The stewing chemical mixture
was kept at a constant tempera
ture with a thermostat from
th family's fish tank.
When their supply of test
tubes was broken. Cookie
esme up with the answer
the baby's nursing bottles. A
home-made agitator that Paul
had built broke down. Cookie
met that crisis by turning on
the washing machine and put
ting the mixture on top of it
"That was clever of her,"
said Paul.
"Oh, a woman can do more
with a hairpin than a man can
with a whole box of tools,"
said Cookie airily.
"It took us a year to solve
the problem," said Paul.
"Cookie had to go up and down
those basement stairs 25 times
a day to see that everything
was goining right.
Paul still thought of his
product only as something to
please his wife and ner irienos.
Cookie had to prod him into
taking it to a merchandising
firm. This firm lab tested it
for six months, had 1,000 wom
en try it out then put it on
the market
The Charlaps are still d-.zed
at what happened. Some two
million dollars worth of the ny.
last solution was sold in the
first few months. The firm ex
pects it to mushroom Into a 10
million dollar a year business.
The royalties assure Paul and
Cookie of a fortune.
I want to buy an airplane,"
said Paul.
"You can have a boat not
an airplane," said Cookie, add
ing: "He is already driving me
crazy asking me to think up an
other idea to keep him busy."
"Yes. the problem is to find
a problem," said Paul. "I guess
don t have a very original
mind. But If somebody presents
me a problem, then I can at
tack it."
Checkrein on Debt
Boise Statesman
In its action killing, for this
session of Congress, the pro
posal to raise the debt limit,
the Senate finance committee
has taken care of the question
for the present. And the ad
ministration will be forced to
reconsider the whole matter
before making a further move
to get the raise.
The President must either
wait until next year for the
proposal to be placed before
the Senate again, or else must
call a special session of Con
gress to act on it Only gen
uinely urgent matters sre justi
fication for special sessions,
snd congressional leaders
probably would be hard to per
suade that .the debt limit raise
is in that class. The call of the
session would be blunt con
fession that the administration
is unable to keep spending un
der control.
A delay until next year, on
the other hand, could be a very
good thing. Throughout the en
tire government cash spending
would have to be watched with
a careful eye, in order to help
the Treasury stay under the
$273,000,000,000 borrowing
limit. The administration might
discover that it really is possi
ble to hold down spending. If
the line could be held until
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Prices Include Federal Tox
5
III Bute Street
Thursday, August 6, 1953
Congress meets again in Ju.
uary, perhaps by that time th.
way could be seen to hold if
for another year.
OPEN FORUM
Trapping of Ducks on
Mill Creek Resented
To the Editor:
May I request that th ru
Council or the State Game
Commission, whichever k..
Jurisdiction, to establish a dtf
taite policy in regard to th
ducks on Mill Creek.
My fsmlly is very much ...
in arms about a man on rk.
meketa street who recently has
been observed more than once
trapping these ducks. Pernio,
he hss been feeding them all
spring and does have some
right to them. But most of tk.
other families along the creek
have also been feeding them
and should have some right to
say something about them.
Granting that they would be
come too numeroui and be
come nuisance, but there are
at lesst six more weeks of sum.
mer in which most household.
era would prefer to keen
feeding them and enjoy watch.
Ing them go up and down the
creek.
When we first moved to the
creek in '33 there were no
ducks and I have often felt
that those on the middle sec.
tion at least, may have come
from a pair that I purchased,
raised, and turned loose when
they were large enough to take
care of themselves. I have pur.
chased a great many sacks of
grain and loaves of bresd snd
hsve taken care to feed the
ducks in cold and stormy
weather when many forgot
about them. Our wish is to
keep them living and hannv
along the creek.
My suggestion would be that
the area be made a game re
serve and a stiff fine, say $500,
be imposed on anyone taking
one of these ducks. If too many
survive the dogs and cats and
little boys (whom we have ob
served throwing rocks at the
babies) they could be caught
by the city or game commis
sion and given to the Salvation
Army at Thanksgiving time.
Or one to each household
which had been feeding them.
A meeting of the home own
ers along the creek to discuss
this matter would be advisable.
MRS. E. C. RONNER
Gervals and Wystt Court
NO USE TO SEND BILLS
Orland, Calif. 0J. Garbage
Collector Leone Penna told
the city council he has given
up sending garbage bills to his
customers.
"What's the use?" he com
plained. "I send a biU, they
throw it in the garbage can
and then I have to haul my
own bill to the city dump."
THEY DONT NEED EM
San Bernardino, Calif. SJA
Some 200 nudists at the 22nd
National Convention of the
American Sunbathing Associa
tion took up an Important item
today plans for a clothing
drive to help the' non-nude
poor.
FLAG UPSIDE DOWN
Los Angeles (U.B The flag
was flown upside down at the
Equitable building, the signal
of mutiny or distress, but it
wss only a mistake.
The building's assistant man
ager said, "one wisecracker
wanted, to know if we were in
'upside down mourning.' "
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