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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1953)
Pact 4 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Sales. Oregon Saturday. August IS, 1953 ! 3 Capital AJournal An Independent Newspoper Established 1888 BERNARD MAINWARING, Editor and Publisher GEORGE PUTNAM Editor Erroriru Published every afternoon except Sunday at 444 CHe meketa St., Salem. Phone: Business, Newsroom, Want Ad, 2-2406; Society Editor. 2-2409. ra im w imi t M,mm rrw mm tw em. Tfc KimiW SIM k iHMnll MU HUMID HWMM 1 MM tmmt UHIM MMI It FRENCH LIQUOR PROBLEM . We've always supposed consumption of alcohol' to be another American "first" along with tome otheri in which one could take greater pride, but it seems we are' badly outdone by the trench. A current aurvey of the lem in the U.S. News says sumes 87 quart of alcohol the U.S. and ilx in Britain, being a pretty hard drinking The French don't drink their alcohol in whiskey, as the American and Briton do in the main but take their' in wine and cognac. The result is of course the aame The French spend about come on alcoholic spirits, Thi compare with four per they drank six billion bottles of wine, five time as much a the wine drinking Italians. There is a bar to every 90 persons in France, compared with one to 246 in Germany, one to 430 to England and one to 8000 in Norway. Many bad conditions flow out of this situation, 25 con firmed alcoholic to each 1000 persons, aggravated liver condition affecting great number of Frenchmen, mount lnjr juvenile delinquency attributable to alcoholic parents, twice as much government outlay for the care of alco holics a the entire tax paid No important segment of tion, but a strong element end of government tubsldiea turn some oi their acre to wneat, which France now has to import, higher taxes that would moderately reduce consumption, etc. French liquor taxes are extremely low. But a powerful lobby of wine grower and manufactur ers, bar proprietors, and the try has up to now blocked needed reforms, as opposition blocks tax and other reforms. Meanwhile La Belle France's condition gets steadily worse and none seem to care. THE VOTE ON WHEAT CONTROL America's wheat growers spoke out overwhelmingly for acreage control and a firm price support which this will make possible without undue burden on the treasury in the national referendum Friday. Approximately 80 per cent favored control. Probably the vote would have been very different had the supply-demand factor been different. But America can produce far more wheat than she or any foreign mar kets presently in sight can tak. If the produces to capa city the price is going to break and break hard. The sup port for next year's crop was to be only 1.23 a bushel without the quota imposition. This may not accord with some folks' free enterprise theoriea, and a considerable number of wheat grower voted the other way, but it seems to u a aensible decision. Agriculture cannot be allowed to sink back into the con dition of the thirties, which it might do with unrestricted production. Wheat is a heavy surplus crop, If interna tional trade were as healthy as it was before World War I we might hope to market our huge surpluses profitably abroad, but that day i gona for a long time to come. Oregon's grower felt the tame way as others through out the country. The majority in thi state wa more than 12 to 1, in Umatilla, our top wheat county, more than 20 to 1. The vote means that grower will produce about what the domestic and foreign market will take, and get a liv ing price for their product. This should encourage them and the communities in which wheat is an economic sup port. , FIRST T V CASUALTY We've heard a lot of talk about how rough television Is going, to be, and indeed has already been on certain com peting activities. Radio and the movies seem to have been the chief sufferers. There was much uneasiness among newspaper peoplo, though without any basis so far as can be seen as yet. Hub T-V can also be hard on Itself. The first commer cial T-V to open in Idaho, by Radio KFXD of Namrta June 20, has already closed down, and the equipment will be dis mantled. The proprietor is a little vague as to the rea sons, saying there were several factors. However, most people's first guess 1 going ture to pay operating expenses. The operator has been highly successful in radio and sed. So T-V'a competition can comer to the entertainment Ills of economic malnutrition that affect al the rest of us. It too, must earn expenses and some more. And the ex penses como high. . MALENKOV WAS PROBABLY LYING American scientists have been reserved in their com ments on Malenkov's announcement that Russia now has the hydrogen bomb. It 1 clear that they suspct he is lying. Reason for this beltcf appears to be that when Russia exploded her atomic bomb nient in this country. There was no question about it. President Truman made the announcement before the Russian did. The hydrogen bomb I vastly more potent ana should kick up a Digger nm. coining came out oi nuasia to suggest any such ex plosion there. If Russia floes not have the bomb Maknkov mut have felt a desperate need to do something that would cause U.S. fear of Russia and to rebuild Malenkov's Vwn shat tered prestige within and without Russia. It may have accomplished this on the other side of the iron curtain. It haa had scant if any effect on this side. WHY THE RESENTMENT? Pendleton East Oregonlan We never have understood why people resent a presiden tial vacation, Including tha one President Elsenhower I tak ing now In Colorado. Few men could live through four years of the responsibility placed up- on our chief executive without periodic rests. t MM H mounting French liquor prob the average French adult con a year compared with nine in which ha the reputation of country itself. 10 percent of their national in or two billion dollar a year. cent in the U.S. Last year by the liquor industry. ' French opinion wants prohibi wants moderate reforms, the to wine grower, which might employes of the enitre indus to be Inability of the ven would not be easily discour take heart. The lusty new field is not Immune from the the impact was felt on instru aisuiroance. Our evidently SMALL CHANGE FOR HIM Albany Democrat-Herald Ex-President Truman prob ably wll turn down the presi dency of the University of Maryland U it is offered to him. He haa been used to sending In budgets up In the billions. He could hardly get used to his trustees' yowling about a bud- get Ihst ssceeded the resources ,ln ,iin, Dy , ffw ,hou ina. .- mcwi -w v, ' .-m rar i WASHINGTON MERRY Congress Failed to OK Food Price Discrepancy Probe te DREW Washington Sometimes during the rush of congres sional seislon, the public misses soma of the most Important things congress does or falls to do. Sometimes the session is so hectic that not even con gressmen themselves -catch all that happens. Accordingly, this column will publish some ot the unnoticed actions or lack of action by the 83rd congress. One thing the 83rd congress did do was to turn thumbs down on one of the most over due probes on the national agenda to discover exactly who gets what out ol the house wile's dollar. Partly as a result, the Elsen hower administration Is now faced with the difficult and em barrassing fact that prices to day are higher than ever while the farmer's share is lower thsn ever. It was promised that prices would go down when the new administration removed con trols last February. Instead, price levels have reached new heights. While beef cattle are selling at record lows, beef steak Is selling In the butcher shops for almost record highs. Yet congress voted to bar an Investigation. On Sept 27, President Tru man wrote to Federal Trade Commission Chairman Mead asking for a "special investiga tion to give us breakdown of the consumer's dollar." I Pointing out that the govern ment needed the information to deal with the complex prob lems ot the modern U. S. econ omy, Truman said that "power ful interests are at work trying to convince the consumer that It Is the farmer who is respon sible for the high cost of liv ing .. , although the farmer receives only about half of the consumer s food dollar, To carry out this vital probe, the federal trade commission ors ' profits. When his terrn oi asked the 83rd congress iorjolce expired last spring, Eis $188,000. But congress not only enhower did not reappoint him. cut out these funds altogether, but took the amazing step ot passing a speclaV rider stating that none ot the FTC's funds "shall be available for a statis tical analysis of the consum er's dollar." Senator's Brlcker of Ohio, Dlrksen of Illinois, Jenner of t Indiana, Hickenlooper of Iowa, and McCarthy ot Wisconsin, all republicans, represent millions of farmers and housewives who would like to know just who's taking money out of their pock ets. Nevertheless all voted to kill anv probe of prices. THE PRICE PICTURE Meanwhile, here's what's hap. penlng to the ever-increasing spread between what the house-1 wife oavs and what the farmer! crts: - t. nut ii.. 4 . 1943, lyres. v-u w, iiiv nuuiewuc i iuuu dollar. In 1951. he got exactly I 30 per cent Today he's getting only 43 per cent. The decline In the farmer's share is hitting practically allieryone In the room had major farm products. Between the second quarter of '32 and the second quarter of this year, the farmer's shire ot the con sumer s oeei-aonar declined 38 per cent. In the case of butter. the farmers share dropped 0 per cent; cheese, 13 per cent; sw-ia. " . In contrast, middlemen's fees were generally moving upward, learning will come In right Between 1951 and '82 thtyihandy. THE WORST ENEMY , 4 ' lll ill -MERE CONFERENCES " they cant jj-top u& j WITMTALK- we THE - GO - ROUND PEARSON made 17 per cent more on a pound of beef; 4 per cent more on a pound ot bread; and 3 per cent more on a pound of but ter. Simultaneously, the food processing Industry increased its net earnings, alter taxes, 11 per cent between the last half of 1951 and the last half of 1952. FARMERS LOSE In addition to the squeeze on food products, farmers are also losing out on other basic com modities. Between December '51 and December '52 the house wife paid 4 per cent less for cotton articles, but the farmer who grew the cotton received 21 per cent less. And as the tobacco manufacturers and mid dlemen gradually increased their percentage of the con sumer's dollar, the tobacco farmer's share dropped IS per cent. As the farmer gets less and less of the consumer's dollar, the housewife Is paying Increas ingly . more- for the - farmer's food. In 1951, the average housewife spent $722 per year for her family s farm products. Today, that same housewife has to pay just $1,000 for the same yearly supply of farm food. Government economists un der the new administration are a little timid about talking, but some of them point out that the period when prices were neia firmest was under OPA Ad' mlnistrator Leon Henderson and Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson, now chief justice of the United States. With the re laxation ot price controls, they point out, both the consumer and the farmer lost while the big processor gained. Note Former Federal Trade Commissioner John Carson sparkplugged the proposed In- vesication of the big proces- Education Pays Off Walt Street Journal Some years back there was a great to-do about the college fad ot swallowing goldfish, and here .were ,0'emn Predion that those who practiced it would come to as bad an end as me nsn. i nut m )h r,tv.. ,. i,r.. returning American prisoners told how one G.I. turned the psychological table on the Chinese Communists during the a-erm warfare -nronaianda. I Th Thin rmHrA W.lh.. , group ol G.I.'s and tried to convince them that U.S. forces , were dropping In Nortlf'Korea Dues Imoreenated. dinned or - - ' " " dusted with deadlv rmi t.iii nan wrre iifjru w uAM ..... u nu convince to the Chine-e prH?.Z, Z tZl uV duced a bug, pl.ced It on a tehI ..J1, ,!".. table, and announced that there t'L'?.! ?. was one so dangerous that ev-I keep his distance. Whereupon one 0.1. walked up. popped the bug Into bis mounut ana promptly swallow- ed it That Just as promptly cnded that particular germ i warfare indoctrination course, A, r, . lVl. Low? whppn,0.nnrc n tnstituUons of higher MEM AMD THEIR kill amlliam w WIPE OUT BlLLIOMS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF FOOD EACH VtAR iNttCTfr OEVrwy J A MUCH TIMBER AS ALU FOREST FIRCS- Salem 22 Years Ago ly IEN MAXWELL ' August 15, 1931 Wiley Post and Harold Cat ty, touring the country In their world circling plane the Win nie Mae had cracked up on a Maine beach. How to solve prevailing un employment had priority con sideration at the 29th annual convention of the Oregon fed eration of labor. One tenth of the population of Oregon was suffering because of unemploy ment and from 33,000 to 40,000 In the state were said to be without jobs. ,v . Salmon fishermen who had received Sc a pound for their fish at Astoria were apprehen sive about rumor of a 2c price. Harvey Uiff, Independence Jersey breeder, had another world record Jersey - in his herd making the fourth of his animals that had attained that record. Salem Elks had planned their annual picnic at Hager's grove. That industry had taken too great a toll in human life and suffering had been determined by Charles F. Early, industrial accident commissioner. Since 1B13, 2 482 Oregonians had died from industrial mishaps and 423,422 had been Injured. Only 111 boys had been en rolled In the state training school for boys during July, the lowest number for 18 years. W. H. Baillle, superin tendent, had stated that 85 per cent ot the boys committed had left after four months and had been reformed. Price Shoe Co. had a sensa tional silk hosiery sale offer ing 500 pair ot chiffon and service weight hose, all $2 quality, for $1 a pair. That Ferry street had been a popular thoroughfare for sneak thieves during the past 38 years was the essence of a report that had been filed with the police department. Average price of an automo bile in 1930 had dropped $53.98 from the 1929 price. Average passenger car In 1930 had co $658.36. During 1930, 2,898,000 cars had been pro duced in the U. S. Feminine Pressure Akron Beacon Journal s" n" its ulv head In Washington report that a record number of women are ul? registered as professional lobbyists at the nation's Cap- itol " " "cw enticing career fieU, 30 women ow n",el ,n the Prac- " lunlu,i "" T 1).. 1. men. wmmuj, ui u, AU ot which only goes UUVCi At VI IS MIV VTvJ a UV1I Vi V.- ..a .. A vacit ea a (vviiim j7 ntiiuvuvc an tKa fnrtarmma nf fhat TInitavl )sutet needs to have his head ! examined. THIEVES PRESENT Buffalo, N.Y. ua A straw vote for mayor was taken at the annual police desk lieu tenants outing here. When It m, to -oun'uh- votes t was discovered someone had stolen the ballot box. , POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER Adv. Man Can Get Ulcers One Place Well as Another y SAUL PITT Per Hal Beyle Kew York It is now a matter of record that a man in the advertising business can get ulcers in Karachi or Jo hannesburg or Hong Kong just as easily as be does along Mad ison Avenue, New York. Only the causes vary. In India he has to avoid sex in at least 14 different langu ages. In Latin-America, he can pull out almost all the stops. In Hong Kong, he can't tell the Chinese to smoke a given cigarette without saying please. The Chinese are very sensitive aoout courtesy. In Calcutta, he can't even tell the Hindus to smoke, please. The Hindi language, I am told, just has no word for smoke. Over there. It comes out .Hrink a cigarette." All this information I picked up this week while smoking a few drinks with' foreign office manager of the Grant Adver tising agency. Besides talking over local problems, they play. ed local commercial recordings lor us. You should have heard that shampoo commercial sung in the Tagalog and Cebuano dis lects of the Philippines. Per sonally, I like it better tbat way. An Indian toothpaste jingle was accompanied by a band that sounded like a calliope falling apart. Indian musicians, it was explained, will use eight different rhythms at once while they employ only a five-note scale. Some things are the same the world over. A filmed TV com mercial in Mexico City showed a pretty blonde stepping out to a diving board. Just as she was about to go In, a sing-song voice said "Un momento," and she was called back for her hair oiL THE FIRESIDE PULPIT Covetousness Runs Close Second as Root of All Evil By REV. GEORGE H. SWIFT Rtetor. St Pmul'i Two brothers had .difficulty In getting along with one an other. They were quarrelsome and covetous of each other's possessions. In the course of time the mother, who had a considerable fortune, passed away. But realizing that , there would be trouble over any divi sion of the property she might make, before her last illness she had her will drawn, leav ing her son John solely respon sible for an equitable division ot the property. However, after such division was made by John, the other son James, was to have the privilege of choos ing which part he desired. In this Way neither could take advantage of the other, and there could be little, if any thing, to fight about. Ope time a young man asked our Lord to settle a dispute over some property between himself and his brother. Christ refused to accept the role of divider of material things be. tween quarrelling brothers, but He did give some sound advice to the young man, "Beware of covetousness." x , Covetousness, If It is not the root of all evil, runs a close! second to being so. It is the cause ol breaking up of happy i families, the ending of other - wise lifelong friendships, and; ' ' " ' ' iiiAiflLMin I p-i..tsi - sWii.;...L..i. w a , ys I i I Servina Solem ond Vicinity ' I ' II as Funerol Directors I -jpJI I KJt H tor 25 Yeors I ft i I to t I - scn r 1 I-Vf 1 hM convenient location. S. Commer- I . I f 1? v m H . ctal street; bus line; direct route I .. I 1n -tf t K Eg to cemeteries -no cross traffic I V2 I f VK I I m New modern buildmg seaUng I T I I I X-. a g! up to 300. Services within your s-- aa "-----i g jig means. m t om ' orm a. uma a i Virail T. Golden Co. I j'i 605 S. Commercial St. FUNERAL SERVICE Phone 4-2257 j 1 IfctoLmMagMaffiLflSuffl An ad appearing in India said Aubrey Mendietta of Bombay can not show a girl kissing. Several merchants who tried it had their shop windows stoned by angry mobs. Hindus Insist that aex is private. No Indian woman can be pic tured in anything but the most proper clothes. Decolletage is absolutely out This said Men dietta, adds to the advertiser's problems in view of the fact that 80 per cent of the shop- ping, even for women's clothes, is done by men. However, Hin dus don't object to seeing Am erican or British women shown in bathing suits. But in Latin-America, the neckline in ads plunges even lower than in North America. This despite the fact that Latin Americans, as individuals, gen erally are modest. In Brazel, the ad writer can- not speak of a "fresh cigarette" because in Portuguese the word "fresh" has a naughty connota tion. In Venezuela, a man said, you can- claim anything. You can say your tire is the "only pune tureproof, blowout proof tire in the world." They have no laws or codes against such things. , - In South Africa, mobile units carry recorded commercials in English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Ba suto and other tribal tongues. They are played in native vil lages, where frequently the fa vorite music is American jive. In Hong Kong the advertiser has to lay off the -color blue. Chinese associate it with fu nerals. Red goes over big. The Chinese think it is accompanied by good luck, and frequently clothe their kids in red to "drive away the devil." It's just a superstition, not politics. Spucoptl enures even leads to . bloody wars among the nations of the world. The wisdopi of the ages, as epitomized in the Ten Com mandments, warns, "Thou ahalt not covet." Christ said "Beware of covetousness, for a man's life conslsteth not in the abundance of the things he possesses." There is, in other words, some thing more than property to be considered in any settlement. There are such things as friend ships to be considered, homes that may be broken, brothers that may never speak to each other again. The mother who made one son divide the property, and the other one to take his choice of the pieces was a smart wom an. It would be well for the world If more problems could be solved in a similar way. It might be one way of helping to bring good will on earth. DRIVING LESSON COSTLY San Francisco ". Mrs. Vi ola E. Jackson took her first driving lesson yesterday, at a cost of $900. She hopefully got behind the wheel, drove around a corner and plowed Into three cars waiting for a signal to change, Her husband told police he was going to drive the car to the nearest auto - wrecking yard. Highway Hearing Stayton Mail Thanks to federal law. Stay, ton today was the locale of an official meeting of the state highway commission. The meeting was productive of several new items of infor mation about the highway pro- . posals. One was a proposal from tha audience that the commission give consideration to cutting through the ridge into the so called swamp area at a point exactly one mile east of First and Washington streets,-rather than a half mile further east (at the Pepperling place) as originally mapped by the com mission. . Another was that the com mission, does not now propose that a cloverleaf be ' Built at the intersection of the "out- aide" route with the Cascade ' route near the Tony Minden . place. This development would be deferred until traf fie becomes much heavier in later years. Construction will not begin -in the Immediate future and it would be five or six years be- fore the road would be pleted aU the way Into Salem Cost of the completed road would be around $1,800,000 and for the 10-11 miles within the Stayton sector, $1,000,000. The North Santiam was de scribed as a secondary' route to be built up to primary high way standards. And definite refutation was given to the feeling of some that Stayton's contention about, selection of routes bad delayed construction. Com mission Chairman Chandler was confirmed by Commis sioner Reynolds and the en gineers that such is not the case. All-in-all It was a good meeting. Various factions ex pressed themselves freely . . . all In good humor. Oregon Law Better Albany Democrat-Herald Oregon's t civil service law Is compared favorably with the federal law in a note to Oregon Voter in which James C. Clinton, director of the state civil service commission, ex plains that layoffs of employes are based exclusively on the merits of each case, according to their point rating. No pref erence in this respect is given veterans, he indicates, but "when a layoff'ls necessary, employes are laid off in In verse order of their point rating. In Mr. Clinton's- opinion, "the federal government would do well to copy our system, which, so far as we know, is our own . . . The Oregon law is a modern law, well written and thought out. It is a liberal law . . . The federal civil serv ice law is a crazy quilt . . . based on the outdated Pendle ton law of the last century. . . . It has been patched and patched until it has patches on the patches. It gets the job done, but just barely and not . too well." . WHAT'LL THEY DO NEXT? Pendleton East Oregonlan The Salem police department has come up with a new one. Traffic through that city is ob served by radar. If you're traveling too fast the radar man spots you and gives your location to a patrol car which picks you up. Before long we suppose they'll have a gadget that can find out what you're thinking. If that happens the jails won't be big enough.