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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, 0"fw"
Thursday, August IS. 1953
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WHY NOT FORT VANCOUVER?
We'd turn a deaf ear and a glassy eye at anybody who
suggested West Salem or Salem II aa a better name for
our own fair capital city, but this proposal to change the
name of Portland's nearby Washington suburb to Fort
Vancouver sounds all right to us.
Not that what we think seriously matters. His honor
the mayor of Vancouver is carrying the ball and setting
much support, with only a little opposition. Reason Van
couver people are interested in a change is the confusion
with Vancouver, B.C. Mail is always going to the wrong
place, it seems, and there is plenty of other confusion,
especially when one gets outside of the immediate Van
couver, Wash., area.
It is suggested that the U.S. Vancouver is actually the
senior member of the duo, having been started first, and
that the lusty young Canadian namesake is the one who
should change if a change is called for. But this is hardly
practicable. Vancouver, B.C. won't do it. Being a lot
bigger now, it isn't the one who suffers from the con
fusion.
The proposed change won't be as warmly opposed as
name changes usually are because the name Vancouver is
retained. The change would be to add a name the place
originally had. However, it goes against the trend, which
is to shorten rather than to lengthen names. It used to be
North Yakima, Baker City, Boise City, etc.
It's too bad the early poineers didn't have more time to
give this name business. Portland should have been Mult
nomah, Salem Chemeketa, Albany the original Indian
name which aa we recall meant "hole in the ground."
(No present reflections intended, it should be unnecessary
to add.)
But we fear it's too late now, in most cases. Happily
for the state's two chief cities, they've outgrown their
New England namesakes, which are too far off to cause
much confusion anyway. If any changing is done to avoid
confusion it'll have to be done back there, not out here.
RUSSIA BUYING BUTTER
. Russia is buying butter in the international markets,
more than 25,000 tons, which is big news from two angles.
First economic, which will interest Oregon dairymen,
somewhat worried about the U.S. surplus, aggravated by
the inroads of oleo. Much butter moves in export trade.
Russian purchase of even relatively small amounts should
firm up the market all over the world.
But we think the major import is. political, and here
there are two angles. First, it is evident that Russia,
once an exporter of butter, is falling down on the produc
tion front, and this must be because of the Communist
imposed collective farm system, which Russian farmers
still bitterly resent after more than two decades of it.
They aren't producing as they once did.
The second angle here is that where the Soviet govern
ment would have been indifferent to a butter shortage as
recently as a few months ago, it now goes abroad to spend
ita precious gold for consumers goods. Why? Evidently
because it fears trouble from the Russian people, having
witnessed in Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia howi
an enslaved people can rise against their masters when
they become desperate enough.
So Russia is buying butter abroad because the Commu
nist economic system cannot produce enough in what
ought to be the greatest food producing country on earth
and because a now frightened dictatorship does not dare
to take away from the people their previously scant
upply.
EISENHOWER'S SPEND LESS ORDER
President Eisenhower's order to all government depart
ments to hold expenditures down tightly during the re
mainder or the calendar year is in keeping with the known
character of the man and in sharp contrast with his imme
diate predecessor who would have encouraged free spend
ing if only to prove himself right in the argument about
raising the national debt limit. Truman would of course
have favored raising it had he still been president.
Eisenhower's order also helps to justify the attitude
of those who differed with him on the debt increase, in
cluding this newspaper. It will be recalled that congress
refused a White House request for a $15 billion boost. A
majority of the members appeared to believe the govern
ment could get by without it till January with rigid econ
omies, which the president is now ordering.
Even if it fails the effort will be worth while and if it
succeeds it will give millions of suffering taxpayers a new
respect for their government's fiscal intelligence.
TRUMAN AS A UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT
We pride ourselves that nothing really shocks us any
more, bo we were just flabbergasted at this report of
Harry S. Truman being considered for president of the
University of. Maryland.
With all respect for Truman's good pointa, it must be
pretty obvious that he lacks virtually all the qualifications
of. a university president. He never attended college and
it no scholar on any subject. Nor was he outstanding as
an executive.
On second thought he does have one qualification of
a aort. His presidency would make a lot of headlines.
He would write letters to people. If it's publicity Mary
land U wants, here is a sure way to get it.
But as an eminent railroad section boss once para
phrased, that woud be a h - (heck) of a way to run a
university.
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
With Patience and Tact You
Can Make Child Do Anything
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Two Great Soldiers Retire
Successor Lacks Qualities
By DREW
Washington Two great
army officers with a long rec
ord of public aervice retired
today. With their retirement
may come a drastic change in
military policy.
If I were to try to put my
finger on the chief qualities of
Gen. Omar Bradley and Gen.
Joe Lawton Collins in their
PEARSON
pushed the betterment of the
enlisted man. Consistently he
has preached the idea that the
backbone of the Army is its
non-coms and Junior officers.
Omar Bradley is so mild
mannered you wonder how he
could ever order troops Into
battle. Yet it was he who han
dled the combat strategy for
work as chairman of the Joint Eisenhower during the historic
Chiefs of Staff and as Army
Chief of Staff, I would sum
marize it:
Though great military men
they (re civilian minded.
Though great combat sol
diers the thing they hate
most is to see men die.
' Though they dislike disa
greement, they champion the
right of others to disagree.
Though trained to fight
wars, they leaned over back
ward to prevent war. .
In these days when Russia
probably has the H-bpmb and
invasion of France and Ger
many. And while the much
publicized Field Marshal Mont
gomery was still sitting at Caen
near the Normandy coast,
Bradley was romping up to the
Rhine.
Bradley's only real differ
ences with Eisenhower were:
1. When Ike diverted gaso
line and men away from both
Patton and Bradley to Mont
gomery at a time when Brad
ley and Patton were convinced
they could have penetrated
Germany and won the war be-
when wars can come at the fore Christmas,
drop of a hat, these qualities! 2. When Ike wanted to run
are vitally important. for president in 1948. Brad-
Unfortunately the man who I ley, as one of his oldest friends,
replaces Bradley as chairman
of the Joint chiefs, Adm. Ar
thur Radford, has not always
shown these same qualities.
IKE'S STRANGE DECISION
And with the President of
the United States having or
dered the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
at the recent Quantico confer
ence, to bring him only unanl
mouse decisions, the personal
ity of the new chairman can
influence the lives of millions.
Furthermore, the instruction
of President Eisenhower that
he wants no disagreement from
his Joint chiefs Is one of the
most Important and sobering
statements the new President
has ever made. For it is the
constitutional duty of the Pres
ident as commander-in-chief to
helped argue him out of It, told
him politics was no place for
a military man, that he would
be a fish out of water. Ike
listened in '48. Bradley got no
chance to talk in '52.
DYNAMIC BRADFORD
The man who succeeds Brad
ley as chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff literally talked
his way into his Job. When
the President-elect was en
route to Korea last December,
his plane stopped for one hour
in Iwo Jima to refuel. Dur
ing that hour, redheaded Adm.
Arthur Radford took him on a
leg-stretching work-out around
the island during which he
talked brilliantly about using
Chiang Kai-Shek s navy
against the China mainland,
about using Chiang's troops in
get all points of view amona
his military advisers, to review I Korea.
their agreements and disagree- j At the end of that hour, Ike
ments. then make uo his own i aid to his pilot: "Can't we
mind
However, the new President,
himself a military man, told the
make room for Admiral Rad
ford on the plane?"
After that, the stormy petrel
Joint chiefs he wanted no split of the navy was as good as in
uccwons, no minority-majority
Eastern Wheat Men
May Decide Quotas
Washington WV-Farm lead
ers said Thursday wheat grow
ers east of the Mississippi
river apparently hold the key
to a nationwide economic
vote with strong implications
for next year's congressional
elections.
It Is the referendum Friday
on the question ef Invoking
rigid marketing quotas on the
1934 wheat crop.
Reports received by hesd
quarters ot the National Farm
ers Union and the National
Grange indicated that opposi
tion to quotas was fairly strong
in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois.
The quotas require the ap
proval of at least two-thirds J In the first group.
reports. He instructed t h e
Army, Navy and Air Force to
be unanimous before bringing
a decision to him.
NOTE Generals Omar
Bradley and Joe Collins have
sat through plenty of tough de
bates on the Joint Chiefs of
Statf and have not hesitated to
tell their commander-in-chief
that they could not agree. Us
ually Bradley and Collins have
agreed as between each other.
But they have frequently dis
agreed with the Navy over the
importance of Formosa, the use
of Chiang Kai-Shek's troops in
Korea, or the use of super-air-piane
carriers against B-38's.
TWO TYPES OF BRASS
There are two types of offi
cers among the top brass of the
Pentagon: 1. The humble, civilian-type.
GI type officer: 2,
the aggressive, ooliticallv
minded officer who likes to
barge into the civilian field of
government.
Bradley and Collins belong
of the (rowers voting.
TO FIGHT DEPORTATION
Joe Collins won fame as the
ority more brazenly than Ad
miral Radford in the summer of
1949. He was relegated to the
Pacific as a result.
He was so brazen ir his chal
lenge of civilian authority that
mild-mannered Omar Bradley,
who does not have a low boil
ing point, went before Congress
and made his famous "Fancy
Dan Admirals" statement
about the most vigorous public
critcism he's ever voiced.
These are the two men who
change places today.
It should be noted that Gen.
Nate Twining, chief of the air
force, and Gen, Matt Ridgway,
army chief of staff, are both
conscientious civilian minded
generals who believe in team
work, not fireworks. However,
with President Eisenhower de
manding unanimous decisions.
and with the brilliant, aggres
sive, talkative Admiral Rad
ford as chairman, the Joint
chiefs are likely either to func
tion his way or fall to pieces
altogether,
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Salem 24 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
August IS, 192
. High winds and low humid
ity had brought slumbering
forest fires into activity and
certain sections of the North
west were again threatened
with conflagration.
Work on county market
roads had progressed rapidly
and Roadmaster W. J. Culver
believed the entire 40-mile im
provement program would be
completed this season.
An offer to furnish paint for
a sign on some downtown Sa
lem roof to aid in air navi
gation had been made by a
paint manufacturer.
A seven-foot cougar weigh
ing 133 pounds had been killed
by Ed Taylor In the Mehama
country.
United States hotel in Bos
ton, patronized by Daniel
Webster, Henry Clay and
Charles Dickens, had closed its
doors.
Returning on the Cruiser Hel
ena, he got to know the new
secretary of defense. Charlie
Wilson, and having persuaded
Ike to play golf In Honolulu,
Radford put him up in his own
quarters and, like the busy bee
Improved each shining hour.
Prior to this, however, the
new chairman of the Joint
chiefs was in Washington s dog
house. He had been transferred
to the mid-Pacific to get him
away from the stormiest eat-
and-dog fight the armed forces
had ever staged
Sore at unification, irate over
the Increasing importance of
the long-range bomber, the ad
mirals organized a secret prop
aganda agency, operation 23,
to smear the air fore. And Rad
ford himself circulated a secret
statement, later made public,
criticizing his superior. Secre
tary of Defense Louis Johnson.
Included in the smear was Sec
retary for air Symington and
his determination to push the
long-range B-36 bomber as
against airplane carriers.
Fancy Dan Admirals
It was probably the smelliest.
Father Dominic of Mt. An
gel abbey had a black straw
hat he had acquired 40 years
ago. The hat remained in good,
wearable condition.
An experiment in shipping
Willamette valley strawberries
without Ice from Portland to
the Orient had been made by
West Coast Air Transport
Corp.
A small, ordinary looking
turtle with "D. Boone, 1760'
carved on its undershell was
getting official attention.
J. C. Nelson who had lately
resigned as principal of Salem
High school stated that during
his 13-year tenure there had
been five complete turnovers
in the teaching staff.
Gambozia, imported African
fish that eats larvae of mosqui
toes, had been released In sev
eral Marion county sloughs
and lakes.
Where Cash Goes
Do you ever kick about the
high cost of food and other
goods?, ou'd be wiser to kick
about the high cost of gov
ernment.
Last year the average Amer
ican family of four had an In
.ner.i wno captured one of most acrimonious interservice
the most difficult cities In the, feud In history, and the chief
Las Vegas U. Crooner Dick k.. . Y, """'" tner- backstage commander of the come of $3400. It paid out
H.vme.. farina denortatlon fnrln.".?:. 01 ,ne .,fw I nv battle "tratcgy was the SHOO of it In direct and Indl
.,.... J. .v .Jil , ,un , uPn wnose man who now becomes chair-irect taxes. That $1100 would
"r. .v u". " '"a " " " b"-. A' mn. ,h J01"1 !!' ef "ve been enough to buy a $21
' r.r f . nrmjr a instruction : seldom has an
Xlgiu lur juncricau cmcciuuiy. I ana
education division.
Officer in un- hasket of a-rnrerln each and
"I'wra cnauengea civilian aum- every week 01 me year.
New York ( Amy Pett.
who is 10 and has roots, has
finally changed her mind. She
is now willing to move with
her family to a larger house.
For months, we had talked
about getting larger quarters.
As the only male in a three
female family, one-bathroom
house, I was tired of shaving
in the office. There were
other reasons, too, but none
that persuaded Amy.
All her friends are here,
she insisted, and, besides, the
cats wouldn't like it.
She was that adamant un
til -a recent Sunday morning
when the wind blew the real
estate section over her comics.
"I wanna move!" she yelled,
My wife and I exchanged
silent looks of triumph. It
was, in its way, a rare tribute
to our long, subtle efforts to
make the child change her
mind without injury to the
roots. The idea ws to make
her think it was really her de
cision not a command.
"I wanna move to this
house!" Amy said.
The ad she displayed con
cerned a house with 49 roll
ing Connecticut acres over
looking Long Island Sound.
It was described as a "gem
like residence of pure Ital
ian Renaissance design" fac
ing two miles of private water
front. How blind parents can be!
It had never occurred to us
thst "pure Italian Renais
sance'' was Amy's favorite
period.
The ad said the Drooertv in
cluded:
1. An' outdoor floodlighted
theater.
'I could put on puppet
By SAUL PITT
Far Hal Boyle
shows snd make a pile of
money," Amy said.
2. Four formal gardens, in
cluding floodlit fountains and
a replica of the famous gar
den of Versailles.
"I'll plant tomatoes."
I. A ballroom with a maple
floor balanced on springs.
"We could tip the whole
thing." '
4. Two and a half miles of
automobile road.
5. An Aeolian organ in s
30-foot domed reception hall.
"What chopsticks!"
The tone cf the interior, the
ad said, is reflected by "the
lavish use of gold leaf and neM;
marble and "gold fittings and
Still Serving
La Grande Observer
Former President Herbert
Hoover, who will soon be 79,
quit remarkably has agreed to
serve his country once more.
At President Eisenhower's
request, he has accepted th
chairmanship of a new and per.
haps more powerful commis
sion to study the organization
and operation of the federal
government.
Mr. Hoover was eminently
successful as the head of an
earlier commission in 1947
which proposed sweeping re
organization. Many of the sug
gested chsnges have now been
carried out.
The new group will examine
effectiveness of these changes,
propose further ones, and oth
erwise treat freshly of this
never ending problem. Unques
tionably, Mr. Hoover will per
form this additional service
with his accustomed thorough-
wedgewood inlays in the mas-
West Recalls Visit to
ter bath." The ad continued:!,,. ... r.L I A--
DUIIC wicciv kviiy nyvr
"The main residence has six
master bedrooms. Also on the
property is a 14 room supirin
tendent's cottage, an addition
al S room cottage, large green
house, stone coach house, and
an 8 car garage.'
This place, Amy observed,
had more room for cars than
our house now has for people.
"Despite the sumptuous
nature of the house and
grounds," the ad concluded,
"it is possible to maintain the
entire property, inside and
out, with ten in help "If de
sired, furnishings are available
at $100,000."
So, naturally, I called the
agent to find out how much
the place cost without the furnishings.
'It has Just been reduced,"
he said, "from one million to
$500,000."
You see, with a little oa-
tience, tact and subtlety, you
can get a child to agree to
anything.
New California 1
Eugene Register-Guard
In the San Francisco Chron
icle, the alert editors of the
Capital Journal (Salem) have
discovered a phenomenon
which ranks' .with "something
new unoer tne sun" or "man
bites dog." The Chronicle pro
poses that the Navy's next su
per aircraft carrier be built at
Bremerton Instead of at Hunt
er's Point on San Francisco
bay, because Hunter's Point is
overcrowded. The Joumsl observes:
'The Chronicle makes the
valid point that this construc
tion ought to be spread around
the country, that too much of
it has been concentrated on the
east coast, leaving west coast
yards Idle, their skilled men
drifting away, so it would be
hard to reactivate these great
plants in the event of war.
Hunter's Point has two bii
drydo.cks, one ot which will be
occupied for a long time to
come by a $62 million modern
izing lob on the 27,000 ton Bon
Homme Richard carrier.
"Why not put the new car
rier in the other drydock? Be
cause, says the Chronicle, It
would be hard to recruit the
necessary labor for this job
around San Francisco, and even
more Important, the second dry
dock should not be tied up for
a long period because in the
event of war it will be urgent
ly needed for repair Jobs on
Navy vessels.
The argument seems irrefu
table, but what impresses us
most is the broadminded atti
tude behind It, which the Ndrtn
west Is bound to observe is not
the usual one In California or
anywhere else for that matter.
The Chronicle has always
been an unusual newspaper. In
our experience, all the people
of the Bay area are unusual
Californians. In fact, there have
been times when we have been
almost tempted to suggest the
annexation of Northern Cali
fornia to Oregon. But there is
still Lot Angeles to be reckoned
with and It might be well to
make sure that we have Crater
Lake and Mount Hobd still
firmly tied down.
Too Fast a Change
Astorian-Budget
The weather man was a little
extreme when he switched sud
denly from cool, cloudy sum
mer weather than was even
cooler and cloudier than norm
al to a blazing sun, an east
wind, and the distinction of be
ing the third hottest place in
Oregon.
We who have been grumbl-lr-
about not getting'any sum
mer weather would have pre
ferred to be eased into sum
mer a little more gradually
than the overnight Jump we
got, which left most of us gasp
ing like fish out of water.
Not Worth It?
Boise Statesman
A soldier who went "over the
hill" to look for his runaway
bride, apparently without suc
cess, had to be brought under
military guard to a Chicago ci
vil court where he obtained a
divorce from his absent spouse.
Me then rejoined his military
'escort" to return to his nost
and face a charge of being ab
sent without leave. He took
with him a word of hope from
the civil judge, noting that love
was the cause of all his trou
bles, that the military authori
ties would not bo too harsh
with him.
The judge also added a com
miserating word of adyice:
"Women aren't worth it."
Well, now. Judge, Your Hod
or, that's a matter of opinion.
THEY REALLY EAT IT
Springfield, Minn., (UJ0 .
Some 4,000 persons consumed
233 gallons of sauerkraut, 10,
S00 wieners, 4,200 buns and
200 gallons of coffee at the
city's 42nd annual sauerkraut
day. t
To the Editor: In connec
tion with the recent Scotts
Mills' Centennial ceremonies,
I recall that around 62 or 63
years ago, Ed Baker and I,
piloting a team of cayuses and
a buckboard, drove out to
Butte Creek to fish.
As we were td drive beyond
the village, we approached, as
I recall, on grade. Above us
on our left was an oblong
frame building bearing the
prominent sign: "UNDER
TAKER" along its ridge pole.
As we turned Into the only
street, and faced the parlors,
we looked up to find the sign:
"CASH PAID FOR HIDES."
But business was business)
I knew the early miller,
Scott. They were fine people.
OSWALD WEST.
THE NAUGHTY BIRD
Menlo Park, Calif., (Up
john Kiefer complained to
officials that a parrot cajled
him some "very ugly words."
Kiefer said he climbed Into
a pear tree after the uncouth
bird and it squawked: "You
don't know so much you old
Authorities said they were
sympathetic but there was no
law against foul-mouthed parrots.
SET DIVING RECORD
Toulon, France u.R Two
French navy officers set a new
world recoid today by diving
1500 meters 4950 feet under the
sea in a bathysphere.,
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CM karat gold $150
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E. 14 karat gold $75
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