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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Sales. Oregon
Saturday. August IS, 1953
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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.
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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.
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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
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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;
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In contrast, middlemen's fees
were generally moving upward, learning will come In right
Between 1951 and '82 thtyihandy.
THE WORST ENEMY ,
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CONFERENCES
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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
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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,
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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
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enticing career fieU, 30 women
ow n",el ,n the Prac-
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AU ot which only goes
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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
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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;
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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.