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ANOTHER SUBWAY SERIES
Although the big league baseball schedule has nearly
seven weeks to go, the races are ss good as over now,
barrinc one of those alwava Dossible but seldom experi
enced collapse of the leaders. In the normal course of
events the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers
are "in." It will almost
series, fifth straight pennant for old Casey Mengel.
Both leading clubs have had their troubles. The
Yankees sustained their longest losing streak in years
right after a long winning streak, but they snapped out
or that and are now playing
winning ball, two victories to
vexed by weaker pitching than usual, trailed till the sea.
son was well alowr. but they appear to be safe from over
taking now, unless they fall apart, as they did to the
Giants in 1951. It Isn't likely this time, though.
The real excitement has been furnished in each league
by the second place club, which will probably receive more
honor from the fans than the winners to whom pennants
are an old story. The Chicago White Sox are likely to
finish second, highest since
scandal broke and banished
organized baseball for life.
performed a miracle since he
ninl second division outfit
till late June, finished fourth that year and third in 1952.
Second this year. 1954 ? White Sox fans will wait with
keen anticipation. Their favorites haven't won since
1919, the year they "threw"
But the greatest thrill of
vided by the Braves, an also ran club which became a
pennant contender overnight when moved from Boston to
Milwaukee. The led the league for many weeks and are
now running a vigorous second. The club's remarkable
success is largely due to the Milwaukee fans who are
still averaging an attendance of 30,000 a day for home
games. The club will almost certainly lead both leagues
in attendance this year and will threaten Brooklyn's all
time National League record. This experience will likely
result in the transfer of the St. Louis Browns next year,
probably to Baltimore but maybe to Kansas City or Hous
ton, j
It's a pretty good year for the majors even if neither
has a slambang pennant race. The White Sox and Braves
have provided unlooked for thrills, and the resurgence
of the long subdued National league has given interleague
competition a shot in the arm. But attendance as a whole
is again running behind the previous year, an ominous
sign. ,
NIXON'S RISING STAR
One Washington figure who definitely gained stature
during the first six months of the Eisenhower administra
tion was a man who held a position that normally con
demns its occupant to obscurity, Dick Nixon, the vice
president. ,
Not too much has been beard from Nixon by the' public,
for he has made few speeches and no attempt whatever
to grab the spotlight. He has played a willing second
fiddle to the head man, the president.
He has been extremely usefnl to the president. Be
cause of his past service in both houses of congress he
has contacts and understanding of both legislation and
legislators that the president lacks. His role is bound to
be a larger one now that the president has lost his No. 1
man in congress, Senator Taf t.
President Eisenhower has encouraged Nixon to fill a
larger than the traditional "veep" role. He has had
Nixon preside over the National Security Council meet
ings in his own absence and has directed Nixon to preside
over cabinet meetings while he, Eisenhower is in Colorado.
Eisenhower has also asked Nixon and his wife to tour
the Far East this fall as personal representatives of the
White House, which means that they will be received
everywhere with honors comparable with what the presi
dent would receive if he were able to make the trip.
The president is in good health and there is every
reason to believe he will finish his term in good physical
condition, possibly seek and receive a second. But what
happened to Taft is a grim reminder of what may happen
to any other key or "indispensable man." Taft was also
in excellent health six months ago.
This possibility may have influenced Eisenhower's de
cision to build up his standin in every way possible, but
the larger factor probably is that Nixon has already
shown his capacity to fill the larger role in a manner help
ful to the administration.
In any event there is no danger that the presidency will
in this administration fall to a vice-president who had
been as little briefed for the top job as Truman was by
Roosevelt. None ever should.
MOST BEAUTIFUL WORDS
Dr. Wilfred Funk, the dictionary man who knows about
all there is to know about words, has picked the 31 most
beautiful words in the English language, both for sound
and for meaning.
His top 10 are tranquil, murmuring, dawn, hush, lullaby,
mist, chimes, luminous, golden, melody. Others which
he rates a little lower but still extra good include jonquil,
chimes, luminous, chalice, marigold, oriole, thrush, tendril,
cerulean.
We suppose these are very good, particularly from the
viewpoint of a word artist. But we suspect the avernge
gent would have simpler, more widely used ones, prefer
ably in certain word combinations.
Among such that come readily to mind: "The drinks
are on me," and that extra special delight conveyor: "En
closed find check."
Paper Demands
Info on Winnie
London MV-The Dally Mir
ror demanded today an official
"full statement" on the condi
tion of ailing Prime Minister
Churchill.
The tabloid said in a front
naff riltnrtal that Britons
have been "driven to pick up
their Information at second-I
certainly be another subway
steady, consistent pennant
every defeat. The Dodgers,
1920 when the "Black Sox
several of their best men from
Manager Paul Richards has
became manager of a peren-
in 1951. He led the league
the series of Cincinnati.
the major leagues was pro
hand from tittle-tattle abroad."
It cited a report by Ameri
can columnist Stewart Aluop
that Churchill had suffered a
slight stroke In June and said.
"Even more alarming reports
have appeared in the French
press."
Churchill's doctors ordered
him on June 27 to rest for at
least one month. A government
spokesman Indicated he was
suffering from extreme fa
tigue, but the exact nature of
his Illness
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POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Avoid Pest Who Tries to
Foist His Hobby on You
BySAULPETT
For Hal Boyle
New York My hobby,
if anybody carei. It avoiding
hobbies.
To be more precise, my hob
by it avoiding people who in
sist I should try their hobby. It
will change my whole life, they
say, give me .. new perscep
tive, added freshness, escape,
relief from frustration and the
commonplace.
Baloney. If I want to be
dull and unhappy, that's my
privilege. Leave me be. Any
way, I have by doubts about
the enthusiasm of new hob
byists out on the stump. I
mean those hobbyists who live
and breathe the stuff all the
time.
You know the kind. The hob
byist and his wife will drop
over for drink. He will re
main glum and silent during
the small talk about operations
and Jobs and the way polio is
going around. Then he finds
an opening and wham! There
goes your evening. ,
Why is it that the first time
a man is seduced by an eight
inch ball-bearing power saw.
with a miter gauge and splitter,
or by a one-rupee uncancelled
stamp from the Maldive Is
lands, he becomes an evangel
ical bore about the whole
thing? He pounces on his
friends, neighbors and rela
tives as though he Just found a
cure for the five per cent mort
gage. They, too, be argues,
must try this hobby and ascend
with him to the bright and
glorious plateau of a new life.
I wonder. Why Is he so anx
ious to convince us?
Is it because down deep he
is still a little uncertain about
the wisdom of a grown man
spending so much time and
energy on a new weapon for
etching in leather? Does he
need the moral support of im
itation to fortify his expendi
ture of money and passion on
a new soil tickler?
I have heard it said that you
can acnieve new peace oi minacar only knocked down a side-
Dy ooserving mo yeuow-oet-
Backstairs With Eisenhower
By M EMU
Denver ton Backstairs at ,
the summer White House.
The president wanted some
thing cool to drink the other
day when he was fishing up
above Pine, Colo. No sooner
had he expressed the thought
that his alert military aide
Col. Robert L. Schutz, dumped
six cans of tomato juice into
the riatte river. The Juice cans
wollawed in the cool stream
bed for about 30 minutes and
were almost frosty when they
were hauled out.
Mr. Eisenhower is amazing
ly non-profane, considering his
many provocations. When he
dubs a golf shot miserably, he
says something like "Ooie, boy,
look at that" or 'That was typ
ical Eisenhower." When a big
rainbow trout gets away, he
remonstrates with himself:
"Now, what kind of fishing Is
that?" You can hear him two
creeks away.
Bob Hope may catch up with
the president again as a golfing
partner. Hope is coming here
soon to play In a tournament
Nti Cherry Hill Country
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. Salem, Orejon
THAN YOU THINK, TOVARISCH
.lied sapsucker, in its
natural
habitat. That may be true. But
I'd rather try to work out a
negotiated peace with my own
natural habitat and let the
yellow-bellied sapsucker envy
me.
But, of course, birds have
move sense than to take up a
hobby of people-watching.
I'm sure it will alarm nobody
If I happen to feel that this
whole business of making a
hobby the be-all and end-all Is
a dangerous mistake. '
It tends to lead people In the
wrong direction away - from
themselves and the reality of
their own existence. If they are
bored or oppressed by their
home life pr job, is there noth
ing they can do about It but
creep into an esoteric, base
ment. Instead of trying to fertilize
their barren acres, this over
emphasis on hobbies persuades
them to take up something else
three nights a week and all
day on week-ends. Is this
really enough to satisfy?
Seems to me it s like trying
to irrigate a desert by wetting
your head.
What does It profit a man.
married to a terrible shrew, if
he conquer the whole world of
butterflies? He's still married
to the same wife. Why doesn't
he try to find out what she's
mad about?
Seems to me he might do bet
ter to stand up to her and
sound off than to stick pins in
poor butterflies.
HE GOT EVEN
Hollywood (IMS Police
warned William Skipper, 33,
today not to carry out his
threat to get even with a Holly
wood night club.
The police said Skipper was
thrown out of the club when
he refused to pay for a mirror
he allegedly broke.
'Skipper leaped in his car,
drove into position and then
charged the nightclub. There
was a resounding crash but his
waij canopy.
AM SMITH
club where
Eisenhower has
been playing almost daily.
An amazingly prominent
man in private life on the west
coast writes the White House
almost every day, telling the
president and members of his
staff how to run the govern
ment. The advice, for the most
part, is duly filed away.
So many people have been
trying to lure the president
into speaking dates, barbecues
and fishing haunts since he's
been here that Gov. Dan Thorn
ton had to issue a public plea
lay off, let the man have a
vacation.
The president won't permit
anyone to rig his fishing line.
If he wanted to, he could say
to any of several angling ex
perts around him "here, put on
my yellow grasshopper."
Instead, he does it himself.
He ties some of his own flies,
particularly when he is work
ing out a downstream com
bination lure using the bril
liance of a spinner and the ap
petizing, for a fish, appeal of
gaUy colored fly.
LONG DISTANCE
THESE 1$ KREMLIN
CALLING ULOyp'i
OF LONDOM
Planners Retreat
Corvallis Gazette-Times
The wave of national plan
ning that dominated the econo-
my of Britain, The Netherlands,
Denmark, Norway and Sweden
has all but disappeared, accord
ing to the quarterly report of
the Economic Commission for
Europe. The report does not
analyze the American econo
my, but if it did, it would re
cord that such attempt at na
tional planning as we saw un
der the New Deal have also all
but disappeared here.
National planning in the five
Northern European countries
so closely identified with ours
reached . its heydey between
the years 1945 and 1930, under
Labor and Socialist govern,
ments. Its symbols were na-
tional austerity and the tight
belt. No doubt, It served a use.
ful purpose, by bringing real
ization of the tremendous ef
fort needed for recovery from
the bankruptcy of war.
As the pressure of inflation
has been reduced, the need for
tight economic controls has de
creased. It is no longer deemed
necessary to fix and rely on
quantitative predictions of in
vestments, prices, national In
come, production and other
goals of economic planning.
The technique of the five-year
plan has been tried in demo
cratic nations and found want
ing. EPITAPH
Akron Beacon-Journal
"A station wagon traveling
south on Rt 176 at an estimat
ed 60 to 75 miles an hour, failed
to make the curve in a driving
rain and barreled into a utility
pole at 1J0 a.m. today." .
This is the story of the skid
ding, crashing, crushing death
of four persons at the intersec
tion of RL 176 and 21 south of
Richfield early Saturday.
A fifth victim is near death.
Two children escaped death or
serious injury because they
were thrown from the speeding
station wagon before it wrap
ped itself around a utility pole.
No other vehicle was in
volved. Too late, the driver
realized he was going too fast,
in the rain, to make the curve.
Speed killed four more early
Saturday.
What's the hurry? Slow
down.
WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND
Pearson Says G. M. Not Cut
Back on Gov't. Contracts
y DREW
Washington It may be
pure coincidence, but Secre
tary of Defense Wilson's for
mer company, General Mo
tors, seems to be the only out
fit that hasn't been hit by the
drastic cutback In defense
spending.
Factories all over the nation
have felt the impact of Wll
son's order last month to start
demobilizing plants engaged in
producing tanks and vehicles.
But so far, his own company,
General Motors, has escaped.
Strategy behind Wilson's or
der is to reduce the number
of plants until only one Is left
making each item. This has
the laudable goal of Increasing
efficiency and saving money,
though it's in direct contrast
to the previous policy of
spreading production so as to
make It harder for Russia to
strike a crippling A-bomb
blow.
While the general policy of
reducing costs has merit, what
really raised eyebrows in in
dustrial circles was the selec
tion of plants to be closed
down.
For example, three big auto
companies Chrysler, Ford
and General Motors are pro
ducing the Patton M-48 tank.
Following Wilson's new policy.
Ford was arbitrarily declared
out of the running by direct
order of the Pentagon. This
means that Ford won't even
be given a chance to bid for
the right to continue produc
ing. It will be left up to
Chrysler and General Motors
to bid against each other, and
the losing - bidder will go out
of production next March,
likewise, Studebaker was
ruled out of the bidding over
trie 2.5-ton truck, and was or
dered to wind up its produc
tion by September. This will
leave G.M.'s truck and coach
division to bid against Reo
Motors, Inc., for the truck con
tract.
The Pentagon also ordered
production stopped on the M47
tank, which happens to be
manufactured by Chrysler
and .American Locomotive,
General Motors was not af
fected.
On the other hand, the pro
duction of M-41 tanks will be
continued full speed at G.M.'s
Cadillac plant in Cleveland.
In addition, General Motors
will take over the added pro-
auction or antiaircraft guns,
now manufactured by Ameri.
can Car and Foundry. The
excuse is that many gun-car
riage and M-41 parts are in
terchangeable. Brig. Gen. Carroll H. Die
trick, commander of the De
troit Automotive Center, In
sisted to this column that the
army was not deliberately
showing favoritism to General
Motors. H e acknowledged.
however, that the instructions
came straight from the Penta
gon as to which companies
should be allowed to bid.
"I haven't received any or
ders not proper and In the
best interests of the govern
ment and the taxpayers," he
hastened to add in defense of
his boss, Secretary Wilson,
onetime boss of General Mo
tors. A high Pentagon source.
who asked not to be identi
fied, explained that Wilson
wasn't trying to enrich his
former company so much as
he was sincerely convinced
that General Motors could do
everything better than any
one else.
"Wilson really believed It
when he said what was good
for General Motors was good
for the country," said this Pen-
tagonian.
Note 1 When Charlie Wil
son protested to senators last
January that he did not want
to sell his General Motors
stock, he said he saw no con
flict between the public In
terest and General Motors' in
terest. Note 2 A report suppress
PEARSON
ed by Sen. Lyndon Johnson's
defense investigating commit
tee shows that General Motors
made as much as 30 per cent
profit on Sabrejets and was
also far behind in production.
This delay was one reason for
our onetime failure to have
enough Jets in Korea.
Franco's Lobbyist
Charles Patrick Clark, the
bumptolus gentleman who
draws $100,000 a year from
Dictator Franco and who has
lobbied $187,500,000 out of
congress for Franco, is having
a hard time these days. It
isn't Franco or congress that's
causing him trouble. It's love
letters.
Charley wrote quite a few
love letters back in 1934 and
they're about to be produced
in court The only trouble is
that Charley can't remember
what he wrote 30 -years ago.
Since he -can't remember,
it would be an act of kindness
to refresh his memory before
he has to go on the witness
stand.
There was one letter he
wrote in 1934 in which he told
the lady he was about to
marry that his father not
hers was a "lousy old man"
nd that his brother Arthur
was an "exact counterpart."
Then there was another let
ter written on March 24, 1934,
which asked his fiancee the
question: "Do you think I have
an Intelligent profile? I mean,
do you think I look like War
ren Williams (the movie
actor)?'
Some of Charley's amorous
statements can't very well be
published In a family newspa
per. They would burn up the
page. But one curious ten
dency he exhibits is to cheat
on his age. Though he claims
to be in his middle forties, his
love letters show he's now
pushing 53.
The letters bobbed up, in
cidentally, as the result of a
mistake which the eminent
lobbyist is charged with mak
ing in falling to support a di
vorced wife. After writing
her these glamorous letters.
he persuaded her to permit a
divorce. And now. though he
gets $100,000 a year from
Franco, Mrs. Clark claims non
support, i
Washington Pipeline
French counterfeiters, re
cently nabbed in Paris with
$5,000,000 in phony U.S. cur
rency, were blg-tlme opera
tors. One of Europe's craft
iest engravers worked on the
bogus plates and the gang used
a large commercial printing
press to roil out the "money"
over ine July 4th week-end
when the owner was away. . . .
The wage-hour division of the
department of labor is quietly
Ignoring dozens of violations.
Many of the cases are ready
for the courts, but someone is
dragging his feet.
HELLS CANTON FALLACY
The Dalles Cronlcle
One fallacy in much of the
pro-Hells Canyon thinking Is
the assumption that If the river
is denied to Idaho Power Co.
there will ultimately be a fed
erally sponsored project there.
There certainly can be no good
grounds for believing that Con
gress will look upon Hells Can
yon with any more favor next
year or five years from now,
than it did in the past and
there have been two flat re
jections thus far.
CHEST NEED FELT
Astorian-Budget
Up in Portland, the start of
the United Fund drive is being
announced. Here In Astoria,
where the Community Chest no
longer exists, we can look for
ward to a multiplicity of drives
during the coming year.
The time will come when lo
cal business men and citizens
will look enviously toward
Portland and other citle: where
one big drive takes care of all
the needs of all the social and
welfare agencies.
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Salem 39 Years Ago
ly IEN MAXWELL
August 17, 1114
A special session of the leg.
isiaiur uaa uccn unaer con-
siaerauon sor jjeceroDer to
clear up matters now before
we aesen iana Doara,
Max Gehlar, county clerk,
had called for bids for install
lation of a steam heating sys
tem for Marion county court
nouse. ,
a
Ashland had had a temnen.
ture of above 82 degrees ever
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A heavy run of salmon had
emcrru we umraiDia.
a a a
H. L. Burt of the Capital
Journal had ridden his bicycle
from Salem to Portland In tjx
hours to see a double header
i inm roruina Daseoau park,
a a . a
German cruiser Leipslc, lay.
ing off the Golden Gate fa.
days, hopeful of taking British
and French merchant ships as
prizes of war, had slipped into
San Francisco to re-fuel and
uppiy.
a
Fred Zimmerman, United
press operator at the C.nit.i
Journal, had gone to Newport
with his wife for a two weeks
vacation.
a a
Biggest battle in the Austria
Servia war had been reported
as raging near Belgrade.
ALBANY'S INDIAN NAME
Albany Democrat-Herald
In an editorial favoring the
change of the name of Vancou.
ver back to its pioneer name
of Fort Vancouver, the Salem
Capitol Journal laments that
the old-timers did such a
stodgy job of naming their
towns. "Portland," says the
C.J.. "should have been Mult
nomah, Salem, Chemeketa. Al.
bany the original Indian name,
which as we recall meant 'hole
in the ground.' (No present re
flections intended, it should be
unnecessary to add.)"
The name our esteemed con
temporary was feeling for Is
"Takenah," now retained
without the final "h" as the
name of a park and a sightly
Old-Ttlmers tell us that "T.
kenah" was a Calapoola word,
meaning not "hole In the
ground," but place of meeting,
as tne confluence of two
streams. It was applied to tha
confluence of the Calapooia
and the Willamette.
The Montelth family. Linn
county pioneers from Albany,
N. Y., gave the name of their
old home town of the Mon-
teiths', slipped one over at the
next session of the legislatur
by having the community
called Takenah. So Takenah.
much more euphonious and dis
tinctive than Albany, actually
was for a time the name of this
town, though not the original
name. But it never did mean.
from anything we're been able
to learn, "hole in the ground."
We stand with the Capital
Journal in regretting that the '
pioneers were weak in nomen
clature. Up in Washington
they did a much better Job
with "Seattle" and "Tacoma";
and "Belllngham" doesn't com
pere with the original Indian
"Whatcom," from which the
name was changed after most
of the pioneers were dead.
REDUCING OVERLOADS
Astorian-Budget
The state highway commis
sion reports there has been an
80 per cent reduction in over
weight loading by loggers since
the 1951 state legislature set
up heavier fines and stronger
provisions for regulations and
enforcement. There wss con
siderable objection at the time
by logging operators, but the
result of the legislation evi
dently has been excellent. Fur
thermore, one hears little ob
jection to the law's operations
any more. The highway com
mission warns, however, that
there is a growing tendency to
soften the punishment in some
jurisdictions by means of sus
pended sentences. This would
be a mistake, since the law is
providing so effective.
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