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CUTTING DOWN ON
Little thines often prove
attitudes upon much larger
that familiar phenomena of
ing use of the limousine with uniformed chauffeur by
government officials,
At the beginning it was only the big boys who had 'em,
but every minor bureaucrat figured he had as good a
right to the car and driver as the chap who already had
'em, and devoted time and energy to wangling this mark
of the man of distinction.
more profitably spent in other ways. For the taxpayer
that is.
So toward the end of the
was celebrated among' the cities of the world lor the num
ber of limousines and liveried drivers of the same. When
you saw an official without
dering: ' How can anyone sink
Now the Eisenhower administration u reversing a
20-year trend toward more and bigger autos for bureau
crats. Budget Director Joseph Dodge, a real "watch dog
of the treasury," directed government departments to
report to him by August 10 their minimum requirements,
asking that they make greater use of street cars, taxis
and other public means of conveyance. He is getting
results. The secretary of the treasury is driving his own
two-door, for instance.
The savinsr on limousines will not represent more than
a tiny fraction of the federal budget, but the change in
attitude toward public money it represents can easily
mean the difference of hundreds of millions if not billions
in government expenditure ovef the four years of the
current administration.
END OF TAMMANY BOSS
AU Tammany bosses eventually come to the same bad
end as lesser mortals, and Edward J. Flynn, long time
head man of the populous New York Bronx borough, is
dead in Ireland where he had gone for a visit
Flynh was typical of the men who rise to wealth, privi-
leire and "infloonce" in Tammany. He was once involved
in a paving scandal, but usually managed to avoid thatjfying the wives ot the top
kind of notoriety.
Flynn helped make history when he played a major be
hind the scenes role in swinging the Democratic presiden
tial nomination to Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932. Tha
country for better or for worse is still argued has ad
mittedly never been the same since, and never will be.
Tammany Is breaking up, was twice defeated by La
Guardia in mayoralty contests, was again defeated In the
last city election. Its leaders are at loggerheads with
each other in the coming New York City election and it
may play a minor role. It will have no federal patronage
upon which to feast during the next four years.
Probably no future Tammany leader will ever again
wield the power Flynn had in his long reign north of the
Harlem river, for conditions are changing, for the belter,
one hopes. The political boss has been one of the least
savory features of American municipal life, and if he be
comes a nuseum piece it will be a godsend.
MOSSY RULES UNCHALLENGED
Old Mossadegh, who could probably win a contest for
the most knot-headed politicians earth, even if he had
to carry a handicap for being a professional, is now master
of hapless Iran, for how long heaven only knows.
A mob of 100,000 Mossadegh followers, including all
the Communists of the capital city and its environs, dem
onstrated with bloodthirsty fervor against their young
shah, whose crime is that he is friendly to the western
nations and has at least a little common sense. The shah
fled for his life.
So Mossadetrh rules unchallenged, but his policies are a
complete failure. A land which covers untold riches in
oil has no oil to use or sell and lives in the direst poverty
no one will be able to relieve much less overcome so
. long as such as old Mossy hold
The capacity of soulless
popular passions accounts for the poverty and backward
ness of much of the earth. Asia, where there is over
population and undereducation, offers a rich harvest for
this type.
WHY IKE IS POPULAR
Wonder why Eisenhower is popular even when the
weather's hot, if the Commies break the Korean truce,
taxes and the cost of living remain high? Especially
when you think of what a panning some other man would
be takinir if he were in the White House now.
What happened in Denver Sunday will throw some light
on the question of what makes the president tick with the
people. He read in a local paper that a six-year-old child
of a poor family on the other side of the tracks where
Ike himself lived as a boy in Abilene was afflicted with
an Incurable case of cancer.
wish to see the president
Most any other president
of course he is busy, even when he is supposed to be hav
ing a well earned vacation.
But not Ike. After church he and his entourage of
secret aervice operatives drove several miles out to the
boy's home and made him happy. A small thing, but how
much it reveals. .
STEEL CRISIS ENDS
Barring all-out war it seems safe to say that the Amer
ican steel production crisis is over, and without the entry
of the government into the field, as President Truman
frequently threatened. ,
It's a combination of easing demand and increasing sup
ply. Farmers are buying less machinery. Automobile
output has been seriously disrupted by the big General
Motors plant fire, where parts were also being made for
several other companies.
has cut back military orders.
Meanwhile the stel com
their facilities. The biirs-est
going up near Philadelphia for U.S. Steel Other com
panies have added new mills, boosting the national eapa
city far beyond what it was at the end of the war.
Problem of the industry now wU! be to find markets,
which means sharp competitive pricing consumers will
welcome, u it does not become too anarp.
LIMOUSINES
straws in the wind to reveal
matters. We are thinking of
the new deal-fair deal, grow
Time that could have been
Truman regime Washington
one you found yourself won
so low?
the reigns of power.
demagogues to play upon
And that he had expressed a
would have passed it off, for
End of the fighting in Korea
nan ic have been enlarging
steel mill in the world is
WASHINGTON MERRY
Unifying Wives of the Top
Brass Real Headache
By DREW
Washington Unification may
be hard to achieve in the armed
forces, but iff a love feast com.
pared with the problem of uni
brass.
It's the wives of the joint
chiefs of staff who are really
behind the present squabble
over who gets what house in
Washington.
In fact, even while the new
Joint chiefs of staff were lis
tening to lectures on "team
play" at Quantico, Vs., their
wives were kicking up a row
over who should live in the
fanciest house.
The shuffle over houses be
came so fast and furious that
the harassed navy finally con
solidated two commands in or
der to create an extra vacancy.
However, the ladies' tempers
still havent simmered doyn,
and Mrs. Arthur Radford, wife
of the new chairman of the
Joint chiefs of staff, is reported
ready to explode,
The ruckus started soon af
ter the new joint chiefs got in
to town last month and their
wives discovered that there
were only three houses to go
around among the four of them.
This embarrassing predicament
was caused by the fact that re
tiring army chief of staff. Gen.
J. Lawton Collins, was remain
ing on active duty and refused
to budge from his comfortable
army house at Ft. McNair.
Mrs. Robert Carney, wife of
the new chief of naval oper
ations, hastily laid claim to the
rambling, old mansion at the
naval observatory, tne tradi
tional home of the CNO. Mrs.
Matt Ridgway, wife of the in
coming army chief of staff, let
it be known that they were
moving into Gen. Omar Brad'
ley's quarters at Ft. Myer. And
Mrs. Nathan Twining, wife of
the new air force chief, wasted
no time taking possession of
Retired Gen. Hoyt Vanden
berg's quarters, also at Ft.
Myer.
Husbands Called In
This left Mrs. Radford out in
the cold. But as the wife of the
nation's senior military officer,
she made it clear that her hus
band would pull his rank, if
necessary, to expropriate either
the navy mansion or Gen. Brad
ley's house. However, Mrs. Car
new and Mrs. Ridgway not only
had already staked their claims,
but had boasted to their society
friends about it
So to save the embarrassment
of being kicked out of the new
homes, they appealed to their
husbands. Mrs. Carney even
edged her husband into getting
a ruling from the navy's legal
department that the navy man
sion was the official residence
of the chief of naval operations.
The controversy finally was
sent up to Secretary of De
fense Wilson, himself, who has
tily passed the buck to the
navy. This evoked a pained out
cry from the navy that Adm.
Radford, as Joint chiefs' chair
man, was working directly for
the secretary of defense and
therefore was no longer the
navy's responsibility.
However. Wilson was too
shrewd to get mixed up in the
batUe of the ladies. He held to
his ruling that it was up to the
navy to house its two top ad
mirals. Already armed with a
legal opinion in his favor. Adm,
and Mrs. Cavney triumphantly
took over the mansion at the
naval observatory.
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Oregon 1
DON'T LOOK NOW
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PEARSON-
Admiral Duncan Boars
This forced the navy to shift
its attention to the No. 2 quar
ters, occupied by the vice chief
ot naval operations, Adm. Don
Duncan. When he got orders to
clear out, however, Duncan
roared like a bull, and, with
possession nine-tenths of the
law, he, held fast
The navy finally discovered
that Rear Adm. George Fort
was retiring August 31 as com
mandant of the Potomac river
naval command. Since a three
story, eight-bedroom, colonial-
style house goes with the lob,
the navy decided this should be
room enough for the Radfords.
However, the navy still had
the problem of where to lodge
the new Potomac river com
mander, and finally hit upon
the solution of consolidating
two posts and making the naval
gun factory superintendent
Rear Adm. T. B. Hill, head of
the Potomac river command,
too. Since Hill already has a
house, this should work out
fine.
However, it didn't take into
account the social position of
the charming Mrs. Radford,
wife of a full admiral, who is
fuming over being stuck away
in the home of a rear admiral.
As wife of the chairman of the
joint chiefs, she claims the right
to the best house though she
has indicated she would be sat
isfied with Adm. Duncan's
house, where the Radfords used
to live before he was exiled to
the Pacific for insubordination.
To avert another explosion,
some high navy officers are
trying to promote Duncan to be
Gen. Mark Clark's successor in
Tokyo. Then the Radfords
could hurry up and move into
Duncan's house before a new
vice chief ot naval operations
is appointed.
Sympathetic air force gener
als have suggested turning over
the handsome colonial mansion
at Andrews field to Admiral
Radford, where the air force
could keep a better eye on him.
However, this hasn't been taken
up with Lieut Gen. Joe Young,
military air transport com
mander who now occupies the
house.
Meanwhile, the wives still
have plenty to say about the
biggest social feud since Alice
Longworth and the late Dolly
Gann vied as to who should sit
where at dinner.
Note Another minor alter
cation has developed over Gen.
Joe Collins' new office. As U.
S. representative for NATO, he
picked an office in the Penta
gon inside, but near the edge
ot the security area; which no
visitor can enter without a spe
cial pass. However, he asked
that his office be unrestricted
so that visitors can come and
go more freely. This has met
with frowns from Admiral Rad
ford, who wants the security
area to embrace Gen. Collins'
office, and the weighty matter
may have to go to Secretary
of Defense Wilson for final
settlement.
(OoSTTtakt. 1W1)
TURRET FARM IN STORK
New Orleans 0AB A charge
of violating the city sanitary
code has been filed against
Jeweler Leonard Warn Gunx-
berg for operating a turkey i
farm on the second floor of
his downtown store. Police
found 20 full-iTown turkeva
there. j
Boom for Cupid
Chicago Daily News
It may surprise many peo
ple to learn that so many
Americans are marrying early
that the proportion of young
eouplcs is the highest in mod
ern times. The opposite might
be expected in an era of in
creasing education and fewer
responsibilities for youth.
Metropolitan Life Isnurance
company statisticians report
that 17 per cent of IS to 19-year-old
girls are wives as
compared with 12 per cent in
1840. In ages 20 to 24, the
percentage is 69 to S3 in 1940.
Today nearly half of the 20
to 24-year-old men are or
have been married, as against
28 per cent 13 years ago.
The statisticians credit the
Increase in early marriages to
"favorable economic condi
tions and the relative freedom
with which boys and girls mix
socially." Economic condi
tions are probably the major
factor. Boys and girls have
been mixing pretty freely for
three decades now remem
ber the gay '20sT
But it is only recently that
a boy can be besieged by em
ployers on graduating from
college or find it fairly easy to
command good wages on leav
ing high school. An economic
factor that should not be over
looked is that this is also rela
tively true of the girl.
A great many ot today's
young marriages are founded
on a man and wife working,
In this trend cupld has it good
now. It may bring him
trouble later.
TOO MANY FRONT
Boulder, Colo. UJ9 Richard
J. Mussil was fined $211 for
having more than the legal 10
trout in his passession.
He told the judge the
248 trout confiscated in his
deep freeze by game and fish
authorities were being saved
for a big fish fry for his
friends.
every month
for life!,
IIBH Q vfcocfc IbI tfct Roil tVtff
WsJevtfc tl? Bfty ea WHuI
sy tttrtki mv, ike sort U
ft Mwfcr a h km Dm yea'a1
rlea May! CD er com k.
Lynn Woods
Si Olson
Art Holscher
Larry Buhler
1211.11111
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STATE FIRM UFE
INSURANCE COsVJUCT
POOR MAN'S PHILOSOPHER
Boyle's Sub Out Ecirly With
His Own Kinsey Report
By SAULFETT
rer tiai
New York HV-The Kinsey
report on. women will be out
Thursday. Why waitT
The Pett report is out today,
It is based on interviews with
women, even arguments on 33
years of non-objective obser
vation, on rumor and gossip, on
nreiudice and bias regardless
of race, creed or color, and on
long eonversauons wun many
men.
The Pett report shows that:
68:8 per cent ot all married
American women object to be
ing kissed behind the ear while
baking a cake.
51. 3 per cent of all married
women know as many cuss
words as their husbands but
onlv .0009 per cent admit it
During osculatioin, 33.8 per
cent of women of all ages
cheat by keeping their eyes
open.
74 per cent 'of all married
Salem 25 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
August IS, 2928
Kappa Gamma Rho bad lost
its suit to have its property
taken from the tax rolls.
Josephus Tompkins, 90-year-
old pioneer and a resident on
Grand Island, had died. As a
youth Tompkins had known
Marcus Whitman.
Sloper Brothers of Independ
ence had stated that picking
early, hops in their yard where
200 pickers would be required
would start within a week.
Marvin Richardson had been
chosen editor ot the "Daily
Boxfull" at the E. Clemens
Horst hop ranch. '
Excavations for a farm house!
at Modena in Italy had un
earthed a column dedicated to
Julian the Apostate.
Miss Margaret Cosper, prin
cipal of Garfield, had the dis
tinction of being longest In ser
vice as a teacher and principal
in Salem schools, a record of
44 years of uninterrupted ser
vice. Salem Automobile Co. had
the agency for Durant Star
Four cars selling for $495
f. o. b. Lansing.
State fair. September 24-29.
had plans for a bigger and bet
ter horse show.
A zoology professor had .af
ter 10 years of experimenta
tion, determined that removal
of the thyroid gland from a
tadpole would prevent the crea
ture from developing into a
frog.
On this day in 1928 a Capi
tal Journal advertisement stat
ed that "Portland Electric Pow
er Co. had a safe, sound and at
tractive investment for you
which will yield you 6.12 per
cent on every dollar you in
vest."
An Albany husband ot an
expectant wife, intent upon an
ambulance, had picked up his
phone, called a numben and
said, "send it out quick." The
fire department had received
his call and as their engine tore
by the heme of Mrs. George
Nichols she became so excited
that she fell from the porch
and fractured her shoulder.
youkJ)oct&t Can HetpTIou
IF YOU SUFFER FROM HAY FtVER
Oh, Yea! There IS belp
and relief for yoa if yoa are
suffer nig f runs
Go to yuui
away and let him prescribe)
n of th sew anti-fcist-mmee
that coene bow he
available to defeat lb
misery of Hay Fever symp.
torn. AsmI wheal your Doc
tor prescribe, remember
that oar preeciiption de
partment i THE RIGHT
plaeo to bring YOUR pre
scription. Wo have a com
plete stock of all the new
.drag disc ovai iee on hand. .
3
sseyie
women wear shoes that are too
tight
22.3 per cent of married wo
men throw dishes at their hus
bands and 22.2 per cent miss.
During courtship, 88.4 per
cent of women of all ages talk
only of marriage, a home and
children. After the wedding
73.8 per cent complain that if
they hadn t been rushed into
marriage they might have had
a promising career.
74.8 per cent of married wo
men, while visiting their hus
band's office, can't resist look
ing at his desk calendar.
84 per cent of women under
29 over-use the word "cute."
63 .5 per cent of married wo
men would have more children
if only they had a full time
maid.
34 per cent of women of all
ages say "yes" more often than
men because men aren't asked
as often.
78 per cent of the women
who wear low cut dresses pre
tend to be annoyed when men
stare.
87.8 per cent of women of all
ages are prettier than men. -
83.9 per cent of married wo
men think that 98.9 per cent
of the other married women
are better off.
86.7 per cent of married wo
men will merely hold out their
hand in the general direction
of their husband. Then they
complain bitterly when he
doesn't immediately understand
they want a cigarette.
74.3 per cent of the women in
America who play poker play
with all the red cards wild.
68 per cent of women of all
ages snore in bed, but only .09
per cent admit it.
96.8 per cent of the women
who turn away from an off-
color joke at a party insist on
hearing it later from their hus
bands, v
78 per cent of women over
25 over-use the phrase, "I can't
stand it or her or him."
83 per cent of women of all
ages have fewer inhibitions
than men about money.
Before marriage, 74 per cent
of women talk about marriage
being a "two-way street." Af
ter marriage, 73 per cent make
it a one-way.
99.8 per cent of women of all
ages will disagree violently
with what they just read.
NO NAME CALLER
Albany Democrat-Herald
President Eisenhower seems
determined to get along with
a minimum of name-calling. In
the face of considerable provo
cation he has remained courte
ous and has discussed issues
rather than the men who pro
mote or oppose them. He has
coined no smart phrase that
could compare with F.D.R.'s
economic royalists," for ex
ample.
Apparently he is hoping for
a continuance of the teamwork
he has had thus far. He does-
n t make as good copy as some
of the more mouthy and sarcas
tic presidents, but he s quite
likely to make a much better
leader for the nation.
VISITS BANK IN NUDE
Pasadena, Calif. U.
Francois Fischer had pleasant
memories today of his first visit
to a bank.
Francois, 3, wandered into a
downtown Pasadena bank yes
terday in the nude. He quickly
was given a dish of ice cream,
Hayfe
Doctov
CAPITAL DRUG STORE
405 Stale Sf. (Corner of Liberty)
We Give Green Stamps
HiiiimiiH -
Tuesday, August 18, 1953
OPEN FORUM
Likes Improvements
In Pioneer Cemetery
To the Editor.
Salem citizens should be
proud of the improvement
made in the Pioneer ceme
tery. Jt has long been an eye.
sore to tourists and local resi
dents. Portland has five cem
eteries within the city limits,
which are given perpetual
care the same as their parks,
by the city of Portland and
Multnomah county.
Credit for the initial work
done at the cemetery should
go to Judge Rex Hartley, the
county commissioners. Mayor
Loucka and Cltv Man....
Franzin for haulnlg away
years accumulation of debris
and putting in the sheep to
consume the erowth
son oak and pea vines.
Credit should also be given
to Fred Lamport and rh.
Kowitz, city attorney, who
drew up the bill, which Sena
tor Lamport Introduced in the
last session ot the legislature
and which passed the house
and senate unanimously, sign
ed by the aovernor mil k-
came a law July 21, 1953.
a itma will soon be estab
lished to enable any one in or
out of the state, who desires
to contribute - to urh
money for the perpetual care
oi mis cemetery. Later on,
taxes will have to be levied.
It is easv to erltirl
difficult to contribute. 'Give
now.
MRS. W. E. ANDERSON,
Salem.
Those Signals
Corvallis Gasette-Times
Ten more states, from as far
separated points as our neigh
boring Washinfftnn -
Jersey, have passed legislation
requiring new motor vehicles
to be equipped with turn !.
nal devices. Since four oth
ers already require this prac
tical substitute for mind-reading,
that makes fourteen states
that have thus far seen the
inasning) light. '
Some 37 of our ,tt h
adoDted hand anri arm ,io-n-i-
that are substantially uniform.
out me irouoie is that the
hands and arms even in Ore
gon are not entirelv uniform
And everyone knows that if a
laay-arlver is talking she has
to use one arm for gestures
and one for driving which, of
course, leaves none for sig
naling. Chances are, however, Ore
gon won't even have to Join
With other states in nub, th
machanlcal flashers universal.
When fourteen states require
them, the car mannfiirtiirar.
will most likely make them
standard fixtures on all new
models. And certainlv when
anyone has once driven in city
iranic (especially in Oregon s
occasional rain) with these
wonderful eimmieki. h' all
through with flapping wing
out xne window.
K.O.'S SELF OVER GIRL
Adrian. Mich. Tnhn r"V PJ-
sorek, 19, knocked himself out
over a girl.
The Detroit vnnth wo nlnv.
Ing tag on a beach yesterday
when the girl ducked under a
life guard platform. Bisorek
chased after her but forgot to
duck. He was carried away
uncanscious and treated at a
hospital for a concussion.
a bottle of soda pop and an
empty money bag for a sarong
while bank officials located his
parents.
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